6 posts tagged “photoshop”

Sit at the computer in front of Photoshop for a FULL day and do tutorials online, and play with pictures, and LEARN a LOT....

My latest "art"....

Surreal stream

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This first one is from an infared tutorial I did yesterday. Infared techniques are the shizznitt...I spent a better portion of the day playing with SEVERAL photos with this effect..

Spooky forest

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Another infared piece.....I LOVE the color of the sky....and all of the shadows on the ground ...

Spooked Christian

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This one makes me giggle.....OBVIOUSLY I need LOTS of practice on making selections(due to the EXTRA stuff that got selected WITH Christian in this piece)...I NEVER knew you could select someone in a picture and do the filters to the rest of the picture and NOT the person until today....and the added bonus of the ultracool shadow of my friend bending down while I was taking the shot adds an extra something...

Pop Art Bart

I don't really know what to think of this one...I kinda like it...but I think the pop art effect was lost on THIS particular shot...I think I will try it with some other photos and see how it turns out...

CatSketchGood

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Turning a Photo into a sketch was relatively easy...which surprised me...

Back Forty Infared

Another infared piece usinga DIFFERENT tutorial....I kinda like it....muted color...almost ethereal...(was that a real word??)

Anyways....as you can see I am STILL completely a beginner but I am having a BLAST....and it's a great brain vacation for me....

Peace Y'all!!!

Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera (Updated Editio

Bryan Peterson

This book is Awesome...Not to mention that the photos in it are gorgeous. I am learning more and more every day about what makes a great photo.

Mastering Digital SLR Photography (Mastering)

David D. Busch

Digital SLR Cameras & Photography For Dummies

David D. Busch

These two books above are by the same author and therefore have similar information. The "dummies" book is written more for the novice(me).

Complete Digital Photography, Third Edition (Digital Photography Series)

Ben Long

Adobe Photoshop CS2 One-On-One

Deke McClelland

This book is AWESOME! It has a DVD ROM with two hours of training on it...kinda like having my own personal teacher right here at the computer.

Photoshop CS2 Bible

Laurie Ulrich Fuller

This book is HUGE! It will take ten forevers for me to wade through..but I WILL!

Adobe Photoshop CS2 Classroom in a Book

Adobe Creative Team

Since this book actually came from Adobe I decided to start with this one first. It has a CD with it that has lessons and project files....very cool.

So within the next few weeks you should start to see some pretty cool photos and photoshop art! YAY!

Please allow me to ramble here and make no sense...it's just to get it out of my head..

So I got all this badass software..and it's been fun playing in it...really really fun..

My house is a total wreck, yet I can't pull myself away from photoshop..

I picked up my old point and shoot camera today to take a shot with it because my SLR was in my truck...I quickly realized I was lost without a viewfinder...I reached for the lens on the front and found there was none..have I already gotten that spoiled with the SLR? I find I am disappointed with the shots the point and shoot takes now...they seem..almost kindergardenish..is that a real word?

I received a box from Amazon today...

Books..

Knowledge For My Brain

Lots of books..

DSLR photography and Photoshop....my new passions..

I start to flip through the books though and slowly it dawns on me that I might be in over my head...

Will I ever really take the breathtaking photos they show in these books?

You can do THAT in photoshop??

I feel slightly overwhelmed with the information...

Where to start?

Do I learn how to take great pictures first?

Or do I learn how to take the crappy shots I take now and make them beautiful in photoshop?

What if i'm really stupid and I can't learn it anyways and I've wasted all this cash for nothing?

Now i'm going to take a few deep breaths and put all but one book away and start there...

God I hate being ADD.(undiagnosed but I know it's there)

So yesterday I got the full Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium. Let me start out by saying that the only Adobe Software I have ever used is Adobe Reader, and Adobe Photoshop Elements.

So I loaded the package on my computer which includes:

Adobe Bridge

Adobe Acrobat Pro.(Way more than the reader thingy)

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe In Design

Adobe Go Live

Adobe Designer

Adobe Acrobat Distiller

Adobe Image Ready

Whew!! That's a LOT of shit! And all I really needed for my class was the photoshop but I figured if I was ever going any further with Graphic Design I would need the rest...and they sure are fun to play with...especially illustrator, and photoshop.

I must say though...there is a HUGE difference between Photoshop Elements, and Photoshop CS2. I was never that great in Elements(basic batch processing, red eye editing, and stuff was as far as I got) so CS2 is VERY overwhelming to me(hence my enrollment in the class)..I can't wait to wade through the books and figure out how to do some cool stuff in this software...

Here are some of the shots I have done some cool(to me at least) stuff with..

Glowing Edges Cat

This is a picture of me with my new camera...and I can tell already that my favorite thing about Photoshop is the Glowing Edges thing...but I'm still playing and I'm sure there's WAY better stuff in it...I just haven't found it yet..

Windmill

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This is a picture of the windmill by our pond...