No need to comment. This is for Thom @rhoing. I was working on a huge one until work at the big box warehouse stopped me some years back. This one was quick and simple with a great yard-sale found frame on the cheap.
Most of these corks are whole, but the one I was working on will have corks halved lengthwise in an ornate brick pattern. One of these days, I'll get around to finishing it. And, I still have to find my vise.
Beautiful!
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The focus falls off very quickly for a flat object or did you do something in the processing?
@marlboromaam Thanks for mentioning On1! My plan was to settle on a new photo editor once we returned from a weeklong hiking trip in Acadia this week. Alas, our American Airlines flight ultimately left 30½ hours late, but we pulled the plug on the entire trip when they couldn't get us to Bangor any earlier than ~35½ hours late. American: Never-ever again — https://365project.org/rhoing/365/2017-07-15
But back to On1 — I couldn't remember the name of it. (For a long time I had a browser tab open with it, but that tab got killed somewhere along the line.) I am also looking at InPixio.
@rhoing I've never hear of InPixio. On1 Raw will do everything PS would do as far as I can tell. I'll bet you'd master the best of it in no time at all. Best think is... all my old PS .abr brushes will work with which makes me very happy. Now to get the hang of the rest of it.
@marlboromaam I never used PS to anywhere near its potential. I didn't use .abr brushes, for example. In few cases do I want an image that was very different from what the lens saw. Most frequently used: Auto Levels, Auto Contrast, Auto Color, Color Balance, Brightness & Contrast, Clone Stamp for retouching, crop, and grayscale and that's about all. Probably count on the fingers of both hands how many times I've spent more than 10-15 minutes editing one photo. This is why I don't want to spend an arm and a leg on new software.
@rhoing I don't blame you and I don't either. PS was expensive enough to own and upgrade. That's why I went with On1. Have you watched any of the videos over there?
@rhoing Yes! I've been shooting some photos in raw with bad backgrounds to practice with the AI and the masking. It is very helpful! I do like to play with brushes though. Sometimes, it's just fun and takes my mind off of other troublesome things. I recently watched the 8 Photo Editing Mistakes to Avoid at On1. It was very interesting and I picked up a few tips watching it. It also handles jpegs just as well as the raw. I'm going to upload a before and after shortly, if you're interested.
@rhoing You can do a subscription or own it! I own On1 Raw 2023. I got On1 Raw, the six plugins (Resize AI, NoNoise AI, Effects AI, Portrait AI, HDR AI, and Sky Swap AI), and Keyword AI for $127.98 which includes all upgrades for a year or longer. Plus all the free download presets, and access to the creative assets and video library.
@rhoing I might consider On1 Plus just for some of the presets you get along with some of the videos that Plus users have access to, but NOT right now. I think I better learn what I can with what I have first.
@marlboromaam But then I want to down-sample my 3024×3024 cropped image to 750×750 and Transform seems to be the place to do it, but… I've spent a couple hours trying to do what would take me 30 seconds in Photoshop and I'm no closer than when I started. Even uninstalled-and-reinstalled the software. About ready to bail and try a different app—
I have uploaded my first result. Have to do the write-up, but I need to row to offload all this frustration and impatience --
Thanks for your help.
I should have realized that transitioning from 20+ year old software would have a *very* flat learning curve; i.e., it was going to be slow.
@rhoing LOL! It's taken me about a month to get where I am now with On1 Raw - so different from On1 10. I'll give you my number and maybe we can trade what we've learned.
July 23rd, 2023
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@wakelys Thank you, Susan.
@phil_howcroft Yeah, I've collected several jars full of corks over the past 15 years. Time to do something with them. =)
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The focus falls off very quickly for a flat object or did you do something in the processing?
But back to On1 — I couldn't remember the name of it. (For a long time I had a browser tab open with it, but that tab got killed somewhere along the line.) I am also looking at InPixio.
Subscription software is a journey for me and I'm not there yet…
Thanks for your help.
I should have realized that transitioning from 20+ year old software would have a *very* flat learning curve; i.e., it was going to be slow.