@summerfield Vikki, you've been trying to get me on this site for a while! If I get a 'how to photoshop' book would that help me learn the symbols and how to drive it with purpose as opposed to this picture where I just doodled with effects?? I was quite fun to do this and I like the effect and I'd like to learn. Get well soon, hope you're up and singing soon.
@30pics4jackiesdiamond - ooooh! she finally succumbed to post processing. and she enjoyed it!
when i started here in 2011, i resisted post processing. you can see my first few months of posting, they're horribly amateurish! but you get to see great photos here and you try to wonder if that came out straight of the camera, especially when you have an identical camera. i hated selective colouring, but one day, i needed to "highlight" a portion of the photo and SC was the way to go. i still don't like it, but you get to use your vision and your instinct when it should be used. then one day you get to play with a photograph, tweak exposure, sharpen, soften, blah blah blah. of course ribbet has limited capabilities as compared to photoshop, so one day i had a photograph that needed a special tweaking and ribbet just won't do anymore. then i thought, there's that photoshop elements in my laptop, i'll try to use it, and i got the result i wanted. i still do my processing 80% of the time on ribbet, especially cloning and other effects (ribbet makes my wrinkles and freckles to disappear hehehehe!), one day i had the audacity to shoot just in raw so i had to use photoshop elements to process the photo and i liked the result. so now i shoot raw and when I'm not happy with the jpeg version, i process the raw version in pse.
all that to say that you don't need to get a book on how to photoshop, if you fiddle with your program's functions enough, or else there are a lot of tutorials on youtube.com.
@summerfield bored and should be washing up!!
We don't have any photoshop stuff on our computers, but I'll have a look on u-tube for ribbet tutorials as no idea what layers means or that lasso symbol.
I just turned a tunnel photo into a whirlpool, no idea how as can't remember what I pressed!!!
Thanks for quick answer- see you are still my go to guru!!
Great processing . I use Ribbet all the time as I find it very easy to understand sometimes I use picmonkey after I have downloaded to give a little tweak or two.
@wendyfrost borrowed a book from library on photoshop to learn about the icons so can learn a bit more @photobird the real boats were colourful in the sunshine.
Thank you both for taking time for your comments
January 7th, 2017
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when i started here in 2011, i resisted post processing. you can see my first few months of posting, they're horribly amateurish! but you get to see great photos here and you try to wonder if that came out straight of the camera, especially when you have an identical camera. i hated selective colouring, but one day, i needed to "highlight" a portion of the photo and SC was the way to go. i still don't like it, but you get to use your vision and your instinct when it should be used. then one day you get to play with a photograph, tweak exposure, sharpen, soften, blah blah blah. of course ribbet has limited capabilities as compared to photoshop, so one day i had a photograph that needed a special tweaking and ribbet just won't do anymore. then i thought, there's that photoshop elements in my laptop, i'll try to use it, and i got the result i wanted. i still do my processing 80% of the time on ribbet, especially cloning and other effects (ribbet makes my wrinkles and freckles to disappear hehehehe!), one day i had the audacity to shoot just in raw so i had to use photoshop elements to process the photo and i liked the result. so now i shoot raw and when I'm not happy with the jpeg version, i process the raw version in pse.
all that to say that you don't need to get a book on how to photoshop, if you fiddle with your program's functions enough, or else there are a lot of tutorials on youtube.com.
aces on this abstracted canal boats!
We don't have any photoshop stuff on our computers, but I'll have a look on u-tube for ribbet tutorials as no idea what layers means or that lasso symbol.
I just turned a tunnel photo into a whirlpool, no idea how as can't remember what I pressed!!!
Thanks for quick answer- see you are still my go to guru!!
love reflections and this is superb - quite abstract, yet one can still discern the boats, beautifully and creatively done.
@photobird the real boats were colourful in the sunshine.
Thank you both for taking time for your comments