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05/15/2003 04:42:23 PM · #26 |
Originally posted by eloise:
Do you have a solution for those without the $700 to buy Photoshop with? |
For Windows systems, I believe the freeware program the GIMP (gimp.org) offers most of the functionality of Photoshop -- other DPCers who've used it could advise you better. I use another freeware program called IrfanView as a previewer/browser -- if you click and hold the mouse, the color values will display in the image window's title bar with both RGB and HTML (Hex) values.
For Mac (or PC) your best bet is probably Adobe's Photoshop Elements...it has most of the PS features you need for photography (except Curves). Download the 30-day demo from Adobe, and if you like it you can get it for $49-99 depending on where you get it. |
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05/16/2003 11:19:50 AM · #27 |
| Unfortunately, GIMP doesn't do 90% of the things I do to the images I need to tighten or adjust. Or, at least, it doesn't have a good suite of dead-easy user-friendly tools for me to use. I've actually seen Photoshop (on someone else's machine); the sheer array of mind-bogglingly confusing and powerful things it could do made me flee in terror. I just need to fudge gamma, despeckle, adjust hue and saturation, and so on. |
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05/16/2003 11:23:55 AM · #28 |
Originally posted by eloise:
Unfortunately, GIMP doesn't do 90% of the things I do to the images I need to tighten or adjust. Or, at least, it doesn't have a good suite of dead-easy user-friendly tools for me to use. I've actually seen Photoshop (on someone else's machine); the sheer array of mind-bogglingly confusing and powerful things it could do made me flee in terror. I just need to fudge gamma, despeckle, adjust hue and saturation, and so on. |
So all of the programs I posted do these things, and usually with a really simple interface/ reduced selection of tools.
The gimp will do all the stuff that you'd need, in much the same way as it is done in photoshop. The main things missing are colour management/ print process related stuff |
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05/16/2003 11:29:22 AM · #29 |
| eloise...try PaintShopPro 7 or 8. Easier to work with than PhotoShop. Free trial down load for 30 days also.//www.jasc.com |
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05/16/2003 11:35:57 AM · #30 |
autool
Your first shot is pretty good. The amount of the vase showing is too much and/or not enough. Either loose it altogether or show us more.
The next shot is too close. It is to soft on the focus and too close to give enough interest.
The other two shots are good. I just think there should be less light hitting the background. It should be dark enough that we don't notice it.
Hope this helps a little.
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05/16/2003 12:03:04 PM · #31 |
Autool: I saw your photos and agree with the others that there's something just not quite IT about them. I think that the background is an issue for me, because the rose you are photographing is so light and the background is so dark. The difference in Sonifo's rose is that the yellow has lots of dark shadow to compliment the black, so it works for that photo.
Right now, your photos feel like a rose taken from where it belongs and put into an alien environment. They "feel uncomfortable" to me somehow. I think Gordon's right -- try a paler or more complimentary background. The composition on all of them looks good to me!
(just my two cents -- if you'd asked "are these nice" instead of for feedback, I'd have said "yes, they're nice!") :)
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05/16/2003 12:10:27 PM · #32 |
TerryGee and carolee: Feedback is exactly what I wnted. Through this thread I have found that my monitor badle needed calibration, as I wa seeing an entirely different background than everyone else. I will shoot some more after I finish voting and making a couple of critiques. I hope to have a better slant on things then.
Thanks for your help.
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05/16/2003 12:23:33 PM · #33 |
hehe
Ok, so I played with the levels slightly, very minor saturation, lots of sharpening, and then tinkered with some layered blurring... fo' the ladies!
here's a befo' 'n aftuh shot!
hehe... so I added a little bug... ala Jacko style... that'll get a a ribbon!
Message edited by author 2003-05-16 12:32:19.
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