DFW'ers photographic challenge - use those £££ cameras!

diable

This is my "stash"


when I used to smoke......................

Contemplates

Wow... U must have a serious cough after all those?!

I'd love to have CS5, but I couldn,t just justify the cost......just yet!
You must b quite a serious photographer? I only wish I knew half of what you'd forgotten! How or where
did you get your CS5 skills?

EssexHebridean

I certainly couldn't justify paying the full price for CS5.....then again I wouldn't have been able to justify paying the full price for CS3 either.....! I ought to do more with Photoshop realy - I go ages between doing anything with it bar the basics and then have to re-learn stuff each time.

The simplest method I know of for doing selective colouring like that is to create a duplicate layer (adjustment layer?) and desaturate it, then use the eraser to rub through the desaturated layer where you want the colour to show through. Once you've done and it's tidied up, just flatten the two levels together then process (levels, sharpening etc) as usual. Seemples!

Nice onion, by the way!

Lemon_Tree

EH i understand the words when they're read individually but when they make a sentence they go way over my head!!!
I've got photoshop and really want to know how to use it, i should look around for a night class or something that shows you how as i need someone to show me.

EssexHebridean

Lemon_Tree wrote: »

EH i understand the words when they're read individually but when they make a sentence they go way over my head!!!
I've got photoshop and really want to know how to use it, i should look around for a night class or something that shows you how as i need someone to show me.

Check out eBay or Amazon for the books written by Scott Kelby - he explains things so clearly and easily it makes learning really simple. Check the version of PhotoShop you have and he almost certainly has done a book for it.

diable

Contemplates wrote: »

Wow... U must have a serious cough after all those?!

I'd love to have CS5, but I couldn,t just justify the cost......just yet!
You must b quite a serious photographer? I only wish I knew half of what you'd forgotten! How or where
did you get your CS5 skills?

CS3 was errrr borrowed but CS5 came via my son at a discount from Software4 Students, more money then sense springs to mind and I really have to start using it to fully justify buying it, lol

Pippilongstocking

Einstein - I took a picture of him standing about so grand looking and I got a decent shot of the whole of him, within a millisecond he was looking to see what I was upto and too close to get into the frame! Hens are rather wierdly one of my favourite things. Einstein isquite a new edition to the family, so we're both a bit curious I guess. I love how you can see the feathers and almost see his curiousity in the photo and how radiant and 'ploofy' he is - very much showing off! The colour of him is sumptuous (sp?) he's very majestic.



Thank you for the panoramic link (nice photo btw)

Loved the other shots too! The onion was very very simple and drew you right in.

Not been about much, snow etc xx

Lemon_Tree

lovely photo Pippi, Einstein must fit right in in your red headed household.

Contemplates

Here is my effort...

This is my Christmas bauble


And this is my new pup, Bear

Contemplates

Pippi your shot of Einstein is great. I love the composition and the camera position. The colours are so vibrant and contrast so well to the background, the only thing is that it's a shame the focus wasn't a tad sharper to show more detail in the feathers and his eye. Though I can imagine how hard it was trying to get him to hold still for more than a second!