Do any of you use Photoshop...?

21 years ago

Do any of you use PS to fix or brush up your pictures? I have alot of fun with it myself...

For instance, these two are the same picture, but with a little photoshop magic, they are two totally different landscapes and time of day.

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With this one, I just brought out the colors that really were there, but I failed to capture them with the poor lighting.

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Anyways, do any of you do this?

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woody_n
21 years ago
I use Photoshop CS and Camera Raw for all my images. Most of the time I
do minor touch up to images to convey what my "minds eye" wants to see.
But, It really shines at recovering what would otherwise be lousy photos.
Here's an example. It was a heavy overcast day with bright patches in the
sky. I know I should have played with bracketing and such, but I was just
lazy that day and here was the result:

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This is what I did to it:
-shadow/highlight adjustment
-unsharp mask: radius=60, amount 20%. This enhances local contrast and
gives the picture a little more "pop"
-unsharp mask: radius=0.5, amount 75%. This helped to bring out some
detail, especially in the hazy areas.
-hue and saturation: selectively bumped up the saturation in the reds and
yellows.
Here's the results:
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sarahbn
21 years ago
I have a question I just ordered photoshop elements 3.0. (It was supposed to have come with digital rebel but since I bought it second hand I didn't get it) Anyway how much ram do you need to run it on your computer I ask because it says 256mb is okay but it should be 512mb I assume you both have alot more ram? Sarah
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John Perilloux
21 years ago
I ran PE3 on my old 233MHz P2 computer, running Win98 with 256MB RAM with no problems. However, I didn't like the color intensity with PE3 so I uninstalled it and went back to PE2. I found the colors too vivid in PE3.

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sarahbn
21 years ago
Really? Colors too bright? But it ran okay. Thanks! Sarah
mitchell_m
Original Author
21 years ago
It wont be as fast as 512, but 256 should be plenty. I use PS 7.0 on 384MB RAM and it runs fine.
Barnabus
21 years ago
Hell all; Barnabus here

I too just baught a Rebel that had the PS-2 disk and it installed with out any trouble on my computer. My question is what about the instruction manual? I serched the disk and it's not on mine! Do any of you using PS have any suggestions as to where I can get the manual. Adobe does not have it there internet site.

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sarahbn
21 years ago
Barbabus Do you have this instruction book ? if you do it's in there.

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kentuck_8b
21 years ago
Mitchell M, in the first photo, did you remove the tree on the left and the tops of the trees just over the hill on the right, using Photoshop? How did you change(the position of) the clouds?

Thanks, and nice photos!

Kt
cindydj
21 years ago
Wow! I just got PS CS today for my birthday...I am a litle afraid of it. Looks like fun though. Any pointers on learning it? I can't believe I have to be gone all day tomorrow and can't play with it....
mitchell_m
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21 years ago
Kentuck_8: Yeah, I used Photoshop to do that. Its actually very simple, but hard to explain how just using words.

For the clouds, I just Selected the entire sky, erased it, created a new layer, and then put in clouds from another picture in that second layer. Then I just changed the brightness/contrast from the original to make it look like evening.

Barnabus, I dont know about the version you have, but in the PS that I use, the instructions are in the Help tab in the program. Under that, its called Photoshop Help.

Cindy, PS CS is very powerful. You should have alot of fun with that once you get it down. I'm jealous.

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