Goofing off in photoshop - what do you think?

Now I can see it! That is a really beautiful photo.

I have a few that I cropped into squares too, soz. I just really had trouble when I started trying to force things into squares. Too many years of rectangles or something.

If you've worked in layers you shouldn't have a hard time getting along in photoshop, farmerman. Layers were my biggest hurdle.

I use a cranky old version of photoshop 4.5 here at home because I really just need a new computer. Still, I don't do too many effects so for me to goof around with its fine. At the studio I have photoshop 7 which is wonderful to use - it has a couple of things new to it that are really miraculous for retouching purposes. The best thing, the thing that makes it worth all the money, though, is it has a "history" bar that lets you go back as many as, I think, 30 steps to change something. With the older versions you have to make up your mind right away.

I've been having a lot of fun with it the last few days. Of course, that could be simply because I'm not "working".

that's a lovely portrait.



farmer, yes Photoshop is pretty user friendly and you'd enjoy it. I agree about the filters - watercolour etc is just awful and nothing remotely like watercolour.

I updated Mo's a bit.....



and I made one for Monkey....

I've got to work on my display today. That's such an
inspiration boomerang, and little Monkey here is just
precious. You tend to put the best photos (or at least
what I consider the best) into the last picture of the
middle row

I just adore the color photo in the middle row.

farmerman, did you kow, that you can make any photo/picture
into a valid stamp? snapfish.com has a service where you
can make 37 ¢ stamps out of your artwork. It does cost
more than a 37 ¢ per stamp though (I forgot the exact
amout).

When I was working on these I cropped and sized all nine photos then started juggling them around, mostly using head tilt and eye direction as a guide to the best layout. For some reason that space just worked best for a jolt of color.

I picked up the prints of 1-4 from my lab today and they turned out pretty cool. That metallic paper is really neat and I'm afraid I may go broke ordering up a bunch of stuff on it. I'm going to order the composit ones today so I should have some results at the first part of next week.

It is so much fun to do something new.

I tried a different design - very colorful

Thats great CJane!

Very fun and lively.

Is that Little Jane and friends? That is a fun idea -- now you've inspired me to put together a friends page for Mo. What a great way to help them remember people and times from their young lives.

Thank you!

I'm going to take this one down in just a bit since it's some work I did for a client -- but I'd love to know what you all think:

(Coming up with corrections.....)

That quote! Did I give it to you or did you find it yourself?

The image is lovely.

One jarring note is the sharp diagonal line in the lower left corner -- can you blend that out?

Very nice, CJane!

Love the monkey one too. Yeah, a pattern is developing -- the best close-up face shot in the middle, the jolt of color -- I like it, it makes sense.

I found the quote in a book yesterday, soz. I thought it was really nice -- I'm not surprised that it's one you like.

Yeah - that diagonal is bad - it's part of her arm. It really needs some work. Thanks!

good point about the diagonal line - powerful image though.


I really like these grids of close ups they look great.

Thanks Vivien!

Here's an update....

I can't take credit for the shot. It was done by my partner J. I'm just the after-effect person on this one.

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Lovely pictures!

From the first ones I liked the second one, but these collages of whom I assume are your kids are just heartwarming.

Thank you, JoeFX.

Mo is mine, Monkey is my great-niece. I love "heartwarming" - thank you especially for that!

You're welcome, thanks for uploading.

I've really been having fun learning my way around photoshop and playing with all the little doodads I've ignored for so long.

Here's a new one using the torn edge filter:

Well hello Ann Geddes.
What a precious picture boomerang. And the color
is so luscious.

boomer - where do you do your printing at work?
a photolab or do you have one or great printers?

Thanks CJane. Those are Mo's bio-sisters and they are just amazingly beautiful kids.

I have all my stuff printed at a little local lab, husker. I don't want to have to deal with that whole color balance thing - I can never seem to get it to translate right from my computer to the paper. Plus, I like real photo paper better than computer paper which doesn't seem to have that sparkle.

Also, I would most likely have to hire someone just to do printing if I did it in house and I doubt it would be as cost effective as the lab I'm using.