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Photoshop Before & After
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California Girl
Photoshop Before & After
I spend a lot of time on our photos before I post them. If I have a great photo, but it's got extra stuff in it that detracts or is just ugly, I'll Photoshop it out. After sharing a couple of before & afters with Promoguy, I've been challenged to post a couple of examples here on the Forum. You may be interested, you may not be... hope you enjoy the transformations! 
Soggy Dollar Before
Soggy Dollar After
Pelican Before
Pelican After
Soggy Dollar Before
Soggy Dollar After
Pelican Before
Pelican After
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Backtotheislands
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California Girl
I always feel that everything in my photos is real, I've just removed the undesirable qualities and fixed the exposure.CarolJLF wrote:I do the same .... My friends now tell me that they never know what to believe is true and what has been photo-shopped! But I like doing it - it's fun, and it makes the pictures better!
In the Soggy Dollar one, I wanted to focus on the folks at the bar, and the guy at the left taking a picture and smoking a cigarette, and the two folks right in the middle in front just had to go! LOL!
Photoshop is tons of fun, but not that easy to learn. I took a night class at the local community college and I only remember about 1/5 of what I learned, but I can get around enough to be happy. I just wish I had a newer version, because I've seen a tool that brings people's faces out of the shadows and I have to have it!
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silverheels
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Sumerwaters
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Kentuckygirl
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[/url]California girl, Loved meeting you (et al) at the beach bar on mother's day! We took a ton of underwater pictures with our new camera while we were on STJ and have been looking into getting a photo editing program to remove unwanted elements and do spot detail enhancements. Adobe's version 9 of Photoshop Elements looks intriging, but we were concerned with it's complexity and "steep learning curve". Any opinion or recommendations? Linward
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California Girl
Good to meet you too!
I don't know much about PS Elements, but I have heard it's really good. I'm pretty sure it'll do what you want for your underwater pictures, however I don't know if it offers a cloning tool (what I use to get rid of unwanted stuff). If it does, then I'd say go for it. Either way, it's going to be a steep learning curve.
I don't know much about PS Elements, but I have heard it's really good. I'm pretty sure it'll do what you want for your underwater pictures, however I don't know if it offers a cloning tool (what I use to get rid of unwanted stuff). If it does, then I'd say go for it. Either way, it's going to be a steep learning curve.
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lpowmacback
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California Girl
Photoshop is a program by Adobe that you can purchase. It's rather expensive, so I'm only working in version 6, which I got on eBay years ago. I've been following auctions for version CS2 recently and although it's an older program, it still seems to go for around $200.Sumerwaters wrote:So, is photoshop a software program that u purchased or an online site?
Your pics are fun. My wife is a photographer and uses photoshop cs4, but I typically don't have the patience to wait for her level of perfection when on vacation, so I've loaded google picasa on my laptop and use that when on vacation. It's not as powerful, but it's free and free is good, and it has a very easy to use color correction. My wife tells me it's got a blemish remover also, I'm not sure how well that works, but overall it's an easy software to learn. For those of you looking for something cheap and easy, download it for free.
