Photoshop
The website business is currently very slow, so I am currently keeping busy by learning Photoshop. Hitherto, I have used Macromedia's excellent Fireworks for graphics. However, as Macromedia were taken over by Adobe I am now having to learn Photoshop. Learning one's way around any piece of new software is a challenge, so I decided to look for some help and instruction.
I subscribed about £45 for an online training course. You get 12 short 5 to 10 minute videos to watch. Rather than wade your way through a manual that is thicker than a telephone directory,
Learn Photoshop Now reckon that they can teach you the basics in about two hours. And how have I found the course? Utterly brilliant! And, what's more the commentary is extremely precise and to the point, and is in English, which is a right result.
This morning I cracked lesson 9 which was all about digital image enhancement. I was able to remove a few moles from the otherwise flawless face of a model. I have taken a picture of a lighthouse taken in daylight and rendered it at night time under a starry sky and added a lighthouse beam. I have quite astonished myself.
A few weeks ago I took some wedding photographs. The photos with the background being Horsham Rugby Clubs's playing fields. In the background of these pics were lots of unsightly rugby goal posts and a number of metal pylons that support lights for evening training sessions.
In double quick time I have now made them all disappear, thereby enhancing the pictures considerably.
Not exactly earth shattering, perhaps, but it gives me a feeling of having achieved something worthwhile and that makes this old git very happy indeed. Now it's definitely time for a pint.
I subscribed about £45 for an online training course. You get 12 short 5 to 10 minute videos to watch. Rather than wade your way through a manual that is thicker than a telephone directory,
Learn Photoshop Now reckon that they can teach you the basics in about two hours. And how have I found the course? Utterly brilliant! And, what's more the commentary is extremely precise and to the point, and is in English, which is a right result.
This morning I cracked lesson 9 which was all about digital image enhancement. I was able to remove a few moles from the otherwise flawless face of a model. I have taken a picture of a lighthouse taken in daylight and rendered it at night time under a starry sky and added a lighthouse beam. I have quite astonished myself.
A few weeks ago I took some wedding photographs. The photos with the background being Horsham Rugby Clubs's playing fields. In the background of these pics were lots of unsightly rugby goal posts and a number of metal pylons that support lights for evening training sessions.
In double quick time I have now made them all disappear, thereby enhancing the pictures considerably.
Not exactly earth shattering, perhaps, but it gives me a feeling of having achieved something worthwhile and that makes this old git very happy indeed. Now it's definitely time for a pint.
posted by Web Man at
11:57
2 Comments:
I see that you have also managed to get rid of all the men (except the groom). Or was it a different kind of wedding?
Mike Cross
Mike. Well spotted. and all the men were where? In the bar!
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