Comments on: Quick Photo Post Processing Tips

By: melody is slurping life

melody is slurping life — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 05:02:44 +0000

Really good tutorial. Ain’t Photoshop heavenly?

By: Misty Dawn

Misty Dawn — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:26:40 +0000

We have PhotoShop, but I don’t know nearly as much on it as my Hubs does.

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:55:59 +0000

I love your pictures. One of these days I’m going to learn how to work photo shop so that mine turn out just as nice. :smile:

By: chanda

chanda — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:25:48 +0000

Yoikes! I just started playing around with photoshop recently. It is sooo adictive. You take great pictures by the way!

By: Kacey

Kacey — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:37:23 +0000

Country Girl, I use the shadow/highlight a lot too. Though, interestingly, in California, I had to do the opposite of what I do for my winter pics from here. Usually here I lighten shadows about 25%. Out there I had to darken highlights instead. I guess from the harsh lighting out there.

Christine, I had heard that Gimp can do a lot of the same things. So you’re writing up a Gimp tutorial? Cool. I love reading tutorials and figuring out how to do them with the software I have. Texturizing. I’ve been reading up on it. Actually saved some textures to my computer, but haven’t played with them yet. Can’t wait to see your tutorial.

By: Christine

Christine — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:03:52 +0000

but as it is, it’s taken me hours to write up this tutorial.

Oh, I know what you mean. I’m working on a tute now on texturizing your photos and it is quite involved to actually make a tutorial. When I do post-processing, I just go in at it, fiddling with this or that, not thinking. But a tutorial requires you to plan and document each step. And *that* is what is taking me forever! ha!

By: Christine

Christine — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:00:24 +0000

FYI, you can do *everything* that is done in Photoshop CS3 or Photoshop Elements in GIMP as well. Most tutorials can be translated from PS to GIMP: just different menus.

Difference? GIMP is 100% free.

That’s a bonus for poor people like moi.

By: Tori Lennox

Tori Lennox — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:56:38 +0000

You’re really becoming quite an expert at this!

By: Country Girl

Country Girl — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:18:48 +0000

I’ve been using the Shadow/Highlight tool under adjustments a lot. It brightens up the front of your picture, almost as if you had a flash on, but a nice warm flash (hard to explain). Thanks for the tips! I just may check these out tonight.

I sharpen mine up a bit, too, using the unsharp mask feature which can sometimes leave halos around things and just found a way to do this in my Photoshop CS2 book to avoid the halo.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:39:00 +0000

My head is swimming, LOL. I’m trying to learn Elements, but slowly….