Photoshop for All: RE: [photoshop-beginners] Quick "gray card" in PS

I think it's great that you work with your photos in Photoshop, but don't confuse 'fixing' them with processing them. I think it's two different concepts.

Clay Swatzell

www.cswatzell.com

"I suggest that it's better to have a good memory of a wonderful scene than a bad photograph of it, which will eventually become your memory of it" – Bruce Barnbaum http://barnbaum.com/barnbaum/Home.html

From: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com [mailto:photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Lorna Antonacci
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 4:42 PM
To: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [photoshop-beginners] Quick "gray card" in PS

I play with all my pictures. I take more than 500 a month mostly action pictures of birds squirrel and chipmunks.

I have a Nikon D 5000 and 3 lens the 70 300 the 150 500 and the one that came with the camera. I was hoping

Not to have to play with them in ps but I still don't like the winter pictures that I take with the camera also the color

Red just does not come out right. I use the xero clarily filter the only one that work for me.

I also cut out allot of my birds

and small animals and use them in graphics. I make Christmas card and birthday cards. I take lots of winter pictures and use a light blue overlay on them it makes a very big different. I was hoping with a good camera I would not need to fix up my images now I, am working more than ever with them. The light has allot to do with taking pictures also I fight with the sun very often lol another thing I don't like is depth of field people love it I hate it. The great thing I love is I can take over 500 pictures in one day and not have to pay a cent for them lol

Lorna

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From: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com [mailto:photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Clayton Swatzell
Sent: December-18-12 3:45 PM
To: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [photoshop-beginners] Quick "gray card" in PS

Destructive is that it is actually changing pixel valvues permanently whereas the adjustment layers is not actually changing pixel values. Here is a link to Adobe's brief explanation of adjustment layers. http://www.adobe.com/designcenter-archive/keyconcepts/articles/concept_adjustmentlayer.html

Clay Swatzell

www.cswatzell.com

From: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com [mailto:photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Harvey Wilson
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 2:42 PM
To: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [photoshop-beginners] Quick "gray card" in PS

I don't understand your statement of "destructive" when it creates an "improvement" to the image.
a question - not a challenge.
Harvey

From: Clayton Swatzell <photoguyinmo@gmail.com>
To: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 9:52 AM
Subject: RE: [photoshop-beginners] Quick "gray card" in PS

One thing about the image>adjustments>brightness/contrast is that it works a bit more destructively than does an adjustment layer. The wonderful thing about Photoshop is that there is more than one way to do things and dependent upon each individual's workflow one method may be a better fit than another.

Clay Swatzell

www.cswatzell.com

From: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com [mailto:photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Harvey Wilson
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 11:29 AM
To: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [photoshop-beginners] Quick "gray card" in PS