Photoshop Elements

[AZ JazzyJ]

I personally like Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual which I recommend to a lot of people who want an easy to follow book on the software. I have read the copy for Elements 3 and 4 and was pleased with the content. I have not completely read through the Elements 5 version but you might want to check that one out. Most of the major bookstores carry it but I did provide a link to Amazon which can give you the ISBN number.

Jeff

 

[jann1033]

i just got an email today about some tutorial cds for photoshop...i have a cd from video professor that i really like cause you actually do on your computer what they are showing you how to do as they explain it...not sure if these do the same or not. i am guessing i can post the link for the cds since i am not selling them but if you want it and it's removed or something pm me www.prophotosecrets.com/blog

 

[Miss Kelly]

I personally like Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual which I recommend to a lot of people who want an easy to follow book on the software. I have read the copy for Elements 3 and 4 and was pleased with the content. I have not completely read through the Elements 5 version but you might want to check that one out. Most of the major bookstores carry it but I did provide a link to Amazon which can give you the ISBN number.

Jeff

Thanks for the link.

 

[Amy]

I have "The Missing Manual" book for Elements 4 and so far it's great. Haven't gotten too far into it beyond importing pix into Photoshop and how to add tags and search, but it's very step-by-step, lots of screen shots, which I like. And so far it doesn't use all kinds of technical language.

Once my DS's are done with marching band season and I have some free time again, I really plan to get into it more thoroughly. But I would recommend it.

I checked out the Scott Kelby book for Elements 4, but it looked like it used a lot of technical language and assumed you had a lot of photography knowledge to begin with. I wanted something more simple to get me started.

 

[jann1033]

I personally like Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual which I recommend to a lot of people who want an easy to follow book on the software. I have read the copy for Elements 3 and 4 and was pleased with the content. I have not completely read through the Elements 5 version but you might want to check that one out. Most of the major bookstores carry it but I did provide a link to Amazon which can give you the ISBN number.

Jeff

can i ask a ot ? ( move it if you want) i am thinking maybe someone with the ele 4 book could see if it's mentioned there in.....would adjustment and fill layers in ele. 4 be what are called layer masks? i was making a composite photo using the cd i mentioned above and it got to making layer "masks" and ele 4 does not mention any menu options for that

got lost and of course somehow deleted the whole thing i was working on i am thinking i might have a multi layer brain "block "

 

[snoopygirl79]

Thanks for your replies. I've printed out the page from Amazon for the Missing Manual and gave it to DH - hopefully he'll get the hint for my birthday!!

Vick

 

[jann1033]

 

[jann1033]

after i have edited my photos i have saved some in photoshop rather than jpg to prevent degradation but now i can't seem to get them open in any programs...the ones that come up ie for photobucket download are the originals only. the edited versions are in my organizer but i can't get to them for any program but photoshop ( ie noiseware, photobucket). any suggestions how i can do this? in 4 it just opened into my edited photos. but they were saved as jpg copies..not sure if this is because i saved as versions or photo shop files rather than jpeg...any ideas?
thanks

 

[Space Ranger]

Are you sure that they are being saved as a jpeg?

 

[Amy]

I was just reading about that in the "Missing Manual" book for Photoshop 4 today. Your problem is that you have the edited photo saved as a photoshop file that the other programs can't read. You just have to open that photo and then choose Save As and save it as a jpeg. Then you can upload that jpeg to Photobucket or whatever other program you want.

Wow! I actually sound like I know what I'm doing in Photoshop!!! Too bad I'm only on chapter 4 of the book.....

 

[boBQuincy]

Jann,

if you saved them as .psd files (which is a good thing) then few programs other than Photoshop will be able to open them. The .psd format saves layers, effects, and other things that many programs can't read but preserves all your Photoshop editing for later modification.

Just open the .psd and "save to web" as a jpg to use the flattened files in other programs.

 

[WillCAD]

Only Photoshop can open a Photoshop PSD file. PSD is a proprietary format developed and owned by Adobe, and only companies that pay a royalty to Adobe can put the ability to open PSD files into their programs.

JPG is a universal format owned by nobody, so any developer can put JPG capability into their programs. JPGs can be read and opened by all sorts of programs. If you want your pics to be visible on the web, they must be in a format that's readable by web browsers, such as JPG, BMP, or TIF. JPG is pretty much the universally accepted standard.

So, in other words, to save you pics on your computer, you can save them as PSDs if you want. But if you want them on the web, you must save a JPG version.

 

[jann1033]

thanks all,,,guess i'm not to chapter 4 yet in the missing manual book ( or it's that's one of the tidbits that floated right past my brain)

this might be somewhere in there also but if i do the "save to web" will that just save a copy that way or will the whole file be converted to jpg? the reason i'm asking is i think it said somewhere you should really only save to jpg a few times with out your files being affected and some of the editing i want to do to some of my pictures is way beyond my capability as of yet... like most of it

 

[Master Mason]

thanks all,,,guess i'm not to chapter 4 yet in the missing manual book ( or it's that's one of the tidbits that floated right past my brain)

this might be somewhere in there also but if i do the "save to web" will that just save a copy that way or will the whole file be converted to jpg? the reason i'm asking is i think it said somewhere you should really only save to jpg a few times with out your files being affected and some of the editing i want to do to some of my pictures is way beyond my capability as of yet... like most of it

When you use the save as command, it creates a new file with the name used and they type chosen. So as long as you don't overrite your file you will still have the original.

for example. If you have a file named Disney.psd and you use the save as command Disney.jpg you will now have 2 files, the original psd file and the new jpg file. The next time you want to work on it, you open the psd file, and when done you can save it as either disney.jpg thereby overriting the first jpg file, or you can name it Disney2.jpg and you will retain all your versions.

 

[Olaf]

Found this podcast, and subscribed. Haven't really dug into it yet, but it looks interesting.

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=208626034

 

[Jeanne B]

Thanks!! I just subcribed to it (something to listen to while the DISboards are down this weekend).

 

[Olaf]

Found this plugin while cruising through the Photoshop Elements board at Adobe. Very cool.

Buzzed

Original

 

[Golf4food]

Nice image... but what exactly does the filter alter?

 

[Olaf]

It alters the picture. I couldn't even begin to describe what it's doing. Here's a link where you can download a trial version. They explain exactly what it does. It's fun, you'll end up Buzzing everything.

http://www.skydancers.com/_fo2pix/buzzsimplifier_mac.html

 

[Olaf]

Here's another one. It works best on landscapes, people tend to look a little strange after they've been buzzed.

Buzzed

Original

I like that you can take a duddy picture and make something pretty out of it.

Here's an article about this filter.

http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/productreviews/l/blbuzz1.htm