Beth

On 5/23/2013 at 18:52, Denis said:

Never taken a picture of meself before

 

Hello all............

Hi Denis.....Well you should take more pics of yourself, it's a lovely photo. Good for you

On 10/17/2014 at 13:45, NannyFerret said:

If I must!!!

John took the picture of me sitting on the sea wall with Evie, so it's not really a self portrait.

Simply lovely x

Hello there,

I don't have any photo editing software and have mislaid the 25 character code to my laptop, preventing my use of photo editor.

I have uploaded photos to Photobucket, but I would like to upload one or two individually to Facebook and would like to know if anyone can tell me whether viewers/friends will have access to my photobucket account (when clicking on pic) in order to view pics?

Account is set to private.

Thank you lovelies!

STRUCK

Hey Brightbear, welcome to the forum, I'm sure you will enjoy it here, it's a very relaxing, friendly and helpful forum.

Hey Tom Welcome to this wonderful forum.....hope you enjoy it here.

Alone

GOWN

Hey Paul, "Here's looking at you" eh? Lol.

I've not been on the forum very much lately, so therefore missed this wonderful image of yours.

Well done to you lovely.

Hey Paul, welcome to the forum......I'm sure you're going to love it here, there's a lovely friendly bunch here.

Thanks everyone.  Yes it is very odd....Im fine with copying mine, so not sure what is going on.

SOB

Hi - I'm enquiring on behalf of a friend and hope someone can offer some advice....ta.

Basically, this is the information I have been given, so if you need to query anything, just fire away.  

Photos have already been copied from camera to pc (operating system is Windows 7). They are contained in different albums and only one or two albums are to be copied.

Programme told to copy from pc and asked to which designated file the pics should go. 

The drive for USB is selected - tried to copy and paste, but this only allows it being done individually.

If the pics are highlighted and dragged - it converts them into shortcuts.

Existing OS was Windows XP Home and there were no issues when trying to transfer to a USB.....all pics transferred in one go.  Existing OS no longer in use.

I know this isn't photography related, but I would be ever so grateful for any help. Fank ewe lovelies.

Hey Paul, welcome to TIPF, hope you have fun!  

I'm also with John but ( this is where I get hung drawn quartered, salt rubbed and left out for the crows) I do feel if we could draw in some younger peoples with varied interests we would continue to grow a little (not too much though as said below if there were thousands of members we'd all start leaving)

 

 

Ha ha, yes, I'm aware of the definition of 'new blood'.........., not sure why you would point that out, but I was referring to (but not criticising) the comment that mrwall made.  

Personally, It doesn't matter who joins, 'younger OR older' members. Both may have varied interests, often the older, more than the younger!

If new younger members joined and it retained their activity, then all the better, but what would you suggest in order to attract these members and move forward with the point you have raised?

I belong to a number of art and craft forums and by jove, members join and then make a few posts and that's it.  Many of the sites have a descent number of members, they have good art work and attractive front pages, but in my opinion, with members coming and going........well, I think 'it just happens', I don't really see a problem! This is just my humble opinion though.

Tis all healthy discussion.

Well.......discussions, discussions............lol.

If my opinion is worth anything, I'm happy with this forum as it is.......I feel that members join for all sorts of reasons...

Some join just to get some information on a technique etc and maybe that's all they wanted....then they just dribble in and out and then they're gone.

I also don't see any point in encouraging younger members as opposed to older members, I just think that this forum is fine as it is.  I personally didn't enjoy or feel very 'comfortable' when I joined a much busier and larger forum.  If I'm honest, it made me feel as if my images weren't good enough to post, as there were so many 'high end' and professional photographers on there, that in some way, made me feel inferior, together with a few others too.

I love this place and glad I found it again, as I really thought it had gone for good. :-)

I like 'closeness' in communities such as this forum and any new member that brings 'a breath of fresh air' to it, is more than welcome and often an inspiration.  As an example and I hope no one minds me saying this, but Creative Snaps has been one of those members.  

We ALL have something to offer, inexperience or experience.  I feel we are just exactly where we are, and that is 'just right'.

I understand in part what Dave is saying though and it's good to raise these points at times, but this is just my opinion and the above is just how I feel too.

talk to anyone me....!

Me too Annie, lol.

FIDGET

SUBDUED

Oh, righto lol. Makes sense. :)

Why is the group closed on TIPF Facebook?

RUDE

This is a treasure of a pic....perfect for POTW, well done Black Pearl.

BURDEN

Tina - No I haven't.  I haven't even looked at the contents of the box properly yet.

In addition.........even though I really got into CS2, I'd have to reunite with it for a short while just to familiarise myself again with it, but after having the above recommendations, I do struggle somewhat to make a decision on things like this.

Eg I wouldn't want to miss out on the reduction on Elements (link provided), which expires tomorrow, but I just wonder which would best suit my needs. Can anyone advise this confused little soul please?

Does the average professional photographer, let alone the average amateur photographer really need Photoshop, since only a small proportion of it's features will they ever use?  Photoshop was originally aimed at the printing industry in order to manipulate pictures and art work for things like colour separations for publications or advertising. Professional photographers eventually adopted it because they often produced illustrations for magazines etc, therefore wanted to make them "print ready".

 

For the average amateur, or even professional photographer a substantial part of Photoshop you are paying big money for is redundant.  Photoshop Elements and Lightroom were created solely with the photographer in mind rather than graphic artists or the printing trade, therefore will probably do all most will ever need. However owning Photoshop seems to have become a bit of a status symbol with amateurs and part time professionals as somehow branding you a top photographer, though complete overkill for their needs.  See the following for a balanced view:-

 

http://photographylife.com/photoshop-vs-photoshop-elements

 

http://photographylife.com/lightroom-vs-photoshop-elements

 

A quote from the above link:-

 

"With all this capability comes Photoshop’s compromise, a sort of a weakness – it’s not the best software for small, quick adjustments, especially if you’re working with a few hundred RAW images from a recent wedding. It’s too heavy on resources and too complicated with all those tools and filters. Photoshop is best when used professionally for extensive retouching and editing, but there are far more suitable programs for quick, strictly photographic post-processing."

When you decide what you want have a look on EBAY or the Internet as you can often pick up a disk of any of the three much cheaper than at high street outlets, or purchasing and downloading direct from Adobe.  As with many things, the latest version of Elements may have virtually all the desired functions of your old CS2 since they are now up to CS6 I think and usually with all "little brother" upgrades they often just merely add the features that were then only available in older versions of the "big brother" software.

 

A history of what various versions of Photoshop added is here:-

 

http://creativeoverflow.net/history-of-photoshop-journey-from-photoshop-1-0-to-photoshop-cs5/

 

And Elements:-

 

http://www.scandig.eu/en/PhotoshopElementsVersionen.html

Thank you Dave. Though all the info given on here now has totally mind boggled me lol.  I've heard of Lightroom etc, but never tried.  I don't wish to undertake extensive photo editing, but I rather enjoyed CS2 and this recent Elements 11 and found that it's ample sufficiency for my needs right now.  I need to learn about my camera before editing the pics haha. Thank you and I'm going to read the info you've provided in the links tomorrow. 

Dave

 

You make some good points. However, Photoshop's advantage is not with photographers alone, but anyone who aspires in any way to be a graphic artist. It can be used in a multiplicity of ways, except vector design (for which Illustrator was created). To give just one example, this was created from a photo but in no way is the final result 'photographic' :

 

Church Monahan.jpg

 

You're right that Photoshop isn't the only show in town, and there are other editors with art filters, such as Pixelmator or Seashore. But they all aspire to imitate in some way, what Photoshop is, which is something much more than 'mere' photographic work (for which Aperture, Lightroom, etc, are much more suitable alternatives).

 

For anyone with a Mac, on a budget, I would recommend Pixelmator which provides layer-based Photoshop-like processing at a fraction of the cost. For PC users, Picasa is free, but I don't think supports layers?

 

And last time I looked, Adobe were still giving away CS2 with registrations. I use CS2 (Photoshop 9) and Elements 6. What am I missing from later versions? Probably nothing that I can't do already, though  maybe it would take me a little longer for some things.

Hi Chris, you make a good point here.............I love 'graphic' type pics, hence why I've made my avatar in the way it is.......(well, not quite graphic, but along the lines).

Yes, I found CS2 more than enough at the time......not sure how much more CS6 offers, but I express Photoshop/CS2 because that's all I know. Thank you Chris!

Beth this is free so it maybe worth you giving it a go...

 

http://www.serif.com/free-photo-editing-software/

 

 

main difference for me between Lightroom and Photoshop is the ability to use layers which you can't do in Lightroom.  but LR is well worth the price.

 

one thing I love about Adobes software is the bridge function, as I use Photoshop and In-design being able to use both together almost seamlessly is a great help.

Hi Colin, I've tried layers with CS2, but found it complicating.....though I didn't play enough with it. I've heard a lot about LR too, but confused now as to what to do. Thank you for taking the time to give your input.

Just got this in my Email today

http://mail.adobe-direct.com/v?xTnTqJlETcJlJlcq

Always leave it to the last minute before they tell you offer closes tomorrow

Thank you Blackrox, I will check that link after this post.

Yes, it's still  there (I just Googled "Adobe CS2" and went through a few hoops to get to the relevant page). I guess you've not still got your desktop PC or you could retrieve the registration number from it?

Hi again Chris, Yes I still have my old desktop and CS2 is still on there. I will see if I can find the registration tomorrow. I only have one doubt regarding my copy though...............!

Thank you all for your feedback, I am rather overwhelmed to be honest!! 

I am however, rather confused now too lol.