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red_satin_doll ([personal profile] red_satin_doll) wrote2016-05-09 11:10 am

Adventures in Photoshop, Part __ ?

Trying to teach myself PS CC is sometimes fun and sometimes sends me screaming into the night. As in last night, trying to correct a photograph of a rose I wanted to have printed and just muffing it up horribly. *le sigh*

The various "sharpen" functions are ones I have not mastered yet at all.  I'm sure I'll love it when I master it but I'm at that stage I was when I transitioned from Photobucket to ipiccy a couple of years ago: "I just want to do this, I just want my little slider bar back, where is the eraser so I can selectively apply this effect?" etc etc etc.  That said I do LOVELOVEOVE the fun effects with fonts - especially drop shadows, contouring and glow effects.

This morning I had a little more luck inmproving contrast, brightness, color, warmth etc on a photo I took yesterday of flowers behind the garage, but it still feels like I'm in the "beginner's luck" stage. I didn't even attempt to sharpen either of these, btw. Baby steps, baby steps.....

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[identity profile] teragramm.livejournal.com 2016-05-19 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
A few things to remember with the quick selection tool....1. make sure your opacity is 100% or this can change the outcome of the QS. After you have made the selection, to the menu (on top) ... to Select and then down to Inverse the QS, then you can copy the part of the image you just did the QS. You can now paste it on same image or a different one.

Did that help?

[identity profile] red-satin-doll.livejournal.com 2016-05-20 12:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you - I actually don't quite understand this all yet but - let me go back and try again with the tool and see how it works.

[identity profile] red-satin-doll.livejournal.com 2016-05-26 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
Coming back to this to say YES, your advice about the QS tool was very helpful once I put it into practice, thank you!
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[identity profile] teragramm.livejournal.com 2016-05-28 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
So glad it helped. The inverse had me puzzled too when I first used the QS tool.

[identity profile] red-satin-doll.livejournal.com 2016-05-28 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
I can't say I'm any good at using it yet however. That's just going to take lotsa practice.

I also miss being able to simply "erase" pixels in ipiccy when I'm adding a new filter or layer.