My Photo Editing - Your Thoughts?
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(it really is my pic), but seriously, you will find it more productive and worthwhile to polish your editing skills on higher res pics, I had to highly compress that one before posting it; highly compressed photos do not "fix-up" as well.
for some of my edits, take a look over here:
http://www.railroadforums.com/photos/showgallery.php?ppuser=136&cat=500&thumb=1
for some of my edits, take a look over here:
http://www.railroadforums.com/photos/showgallery.php?ppuser=136&cat=500&thumb=1
Patman
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I don't think any photo editing software beats Photoshop. I've been working in Photoshop since 1991 in my job (I do color correction and retouching for a magazine publisher)
One that doesn't beat PhotoShop but beats just about everything else is GIMP and it's free.
www.gimp.org
If I didn't already own Photoshop 7 I would be using GIMP.
Just got back here...spent my time down south on the Gulf.quote:
Originally posted by oldman:
Looks clearer for me, is that what you did on winter break
Oh, I know...just playing around with a little minor touch-up stuff, nothing major.
Patman
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We're using Photoshop CS at work now, which I believe is version 8. We run Macs with OSX on them.
When I started using Photoshop it was on version 2.0!
When I started using Photoshop it was on version 2.0!
Have been doing editing for way too long, but as a part of my engineering job, not as a fulltime graphics person, I can say that PaintShop Pro is a lot easier to learn if you aren't using it fulltime. Any editor takes time to learn, and if you only spend a few hours a month, PShop is a booger to learn.
Add the fact that PSP tends (when I researched it it) to be more full-featured than the stripped down versions of PShop (CE, Elements, etc) and about the same $$ as the de-featured PShops. Of course, for fulltimers, the defacto standard is PShop without a doubt; but that can run $800 and up. But even fulltime PShop'rs are surprised at the power that PSP has (layers, etc).
My brother did a lot of PShop as an architech and was quite taken aback when I showed him all the features he thought were exclusive to PShop, quite handy and all right there in a $50 editor. (PSP tends to get discounted more often than PS)
Of course, the bottom line is that an editor is like any other tool: it works best with a lot of practice and familiarity.
Add the fact that PSP tends (when I researched it it) to be more full-featured than the stripped down versions of PShop (CE, Elements, etc) and about the same $$ as the de-featured PShops. Of course, for fulltimers, the defacto standard is PShop without a doubt; but that can run $800 and up. But even fulltime PShop'rs are surprised at the power that PSP has (layers, etc).
My brother did a lot of PShop as an architech and was quite taken aback when I showed him all the features he thought were exclusive to PShop, quite handy and all right there in a $50 editor. (PSP tends to get discounted more often than PS)
Of course, the bottom line is that an editor is like any other tool: it works best with a lot of practice and familiarity.
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