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Goofing off in photoshop - what do you think?

 
 
shewolfnm
 
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Reply Tue 2 Aug, 2005 08:20 am
does photoshop come with microsoft xp or something like that?
Or is it a program you have to buy seperatly?
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boomerang
 
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Reply Tue 2 Aug, 2005 08:32 am
Photoshop is a seperate program and the full blown version is pretty expensive. I know some people who use the "Elements" version which I think costs a lot less.

On the softwear that you use does it have a tool called something like "magic wand" -- something you can click on a little section of color and it will be outlined? If you have a tool like that you can do it pretty easily.
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sozobe
 
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Reply Tue 2 Aug, 2005 08:37 am
Adobe PhotoDeluxe comes free with some scanners/ printers -- that's how we got ours. I assume that if it's available separately it's much cheaper than Photoshop. It's a cut-rate version of Photoshop (Adobe makes Photoshop, too), but not so cut-rate as all that. I used it for all kinds of things, absolutely loved it. "Clone" was my friend. I had it installed on my PC and have been missing it big time since I got the Mac. I just haven't cottoned to iPhoto. I think I'll see if I can install PhotoDeluxe, I think -- I hope -- I still have the disk around somewhere.
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DrewDad
 
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Reply Tue 2 Aug, 2005 08:37 am
It's a separate program.

A freeware image editor is available here: http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html.

Be sure to download and install both the GTK environment and the GIMP installer.
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boomerang
 
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Reply Tue 2 Aug, 2005 09:20 am
DrewDad wrote:
You need to get that boy to go outside and play more!


It's been so dry here that we've taken to calling him Pigpen because he moves around in a little cloud of dirt like that kid in Charlie Brown!
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boomerang
 
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Reply Wed 3 Aug, 2005 10:45 am
These aren't the greatest photos as they were taken at an event and under terrible lighting conditions and required careful camera-hog-friend retouching out but.....

this is my neighbor at her 13th birthday party and I wanted to make a photo thing for her.

I'm trying to come up with a cool quote about Summer, young-womanhood, birthday, thirteen, something to kind of fill it out (I'm thinking of adding a couple of inches to the bottom so it can be printed as an 8x10 so it won't require a special frame. (People are always kind of annoyed with me when I give them square photos)).

Any quote suggestions?

She and her family are true hippys so nothing too smarmy or flowery.

I can't seem to come up with anything.

Also, do you like the little white boarder around the photos? That's something new I tried.

<snip>
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sozobe
 
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Reply Wed 3 Aug, 2005 10:49 am
Aw, lovely.

I do like the white border, yes.

Hmm, do any of the young womanhood ones I came up with before apply? Lemme go look...
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shewolfnm
 
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Reply Wed 3 Aug, 2005 11:10 am
I think the border is great!
Those are really good pictures and a great idea boom!


hmm.. young woman hood..

mr wolf is good at titling things. I ll ask him to donate his 2 cents and see what he says.
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jpinMilwaukee
 
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Reply Wed 3 Aug, 2005 11:28 am
shewolfnm wrote:
does photoshop come with microsoft xp or something like that?
Or is it a program you have to buy seperatly?


If you know anybody in the education business (student, faculty or staff) you can get huge discounts off of software. When I was a student I bought everything at CampusTech. Here is a link to discounted Photoshop.
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boomerang
 
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Reply Wed 3 Aug, 2005 11:28 am
Thanks gals (and Mr. Wolf). I'm kind of stumped.

The only thing I've been able to come up with is to take liberties with Shel Silverstein's "Here Comes" since the girl's name is Summer:

Here comes (S?)ummer,
Here comes Summer,
Chirping robin, budding rose.
Here comes summer
Here comes summer
Gentle rains, summer clothes.
Here comes Summer
Here comes summer
Whoosh-shiver-there it (she?) goes.
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DrewDad
 
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Reply Wed 3 Aug, 2005 11:48 am
I have to show these to my wife; she's always upset about cutting off the tops of peoples' heads.
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sozobe
 
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Reply Wed 3 Aug, 2005 11:51 am
Oh, her name is Summer?!

Gotta be possibilities there.

I looked at the ones I came up with before, eh. None of 'em really work.

Will get out my big book o' quotes and see what "summer" yields...
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sozobe
 
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Reply Wed 3 Aug, 2005 11:59 am
In somer seson, when softe was the sonne.

- William Langlande, "Piers Plowman" (always loved that line)

Hmmm. Everything I'm finding is mournful/ elegiac.
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shewolfnm
 
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Reply Wed 3 Aug, 2005 12:03 pm
i keep coming up with silly corny things..
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boomerang
 
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Reply Wed 3 Aug, 2005 12:10 pm
Unless it's a long shot I almost always cut off the head. That big head-circle just messes with me in a close up. I know a lot of people don't like it though.

I came up with a lot of sad summer realted things too. Weird that summer would be so meloncholy.

I'm going to search through song lyrics...
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DrewDad
 
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Reply Wed 3 Aug, 2005 12:46 pm
An early summer beauty
A blooming summer rose
Watch it and you see
How beautiful it grows.
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boomerang
 
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Reply Thu 4 Aug, 2005 06:50 am
That's very nice, DrewDad.

Do you know where it's from?
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shewolfnm
 
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Reply Thu 4 Aug, 2005 07:02 am
I asked mr wolf what he thought a good caption would be.. and his suggestion was actually a wordless border.
Instead, in the black border to put up small colorful cartoon flowers .70's style flowers.
Do you watch that 70's show? Do you know that green flower pillow Jackie has on her bed?
He suggested a couple of those sprinkled around. Maybe a small cluster on one corner and just a scattered few around it.
Let me google the pillow.. in case you dont know wich one he is talking about..
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shewolfnm
 
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Reply Thu 4 Aug, 2005 07:14 am
Maybe things like :
http://www.cafepress.com/groovynetgear/740954
On this page.. look in the 4th row at the purple glass flower throw..
Or the peace flower throw a litte farther down the page.

or :
here is a better example of what he was talking about.
Teeny-bopper style colors , 70's retro style flower pillows.. http://www.endoftherainbow-gifts.com/pillows.html
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squinney
 
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Reply Thu 4 Aug, 2005 07:20 am
I'd do the Drewdad poem in white cursive font around the picture. You know, first line across the top, second line down the right side, etc.
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