Is the text on the same layer?

Photoslop is all about layers.
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I am weird though, I use the pen tool and paths a lot too.

Alien Skin Eye Candy is great! Is it available for the latest version of Adobe CS?

I I'd wear thaat as a hat ;)

I use CS5

Thought Rick might feel better with the picture of a redhead.

Thats one of the best pair of rear facing bosums I've seen for a long time ;)

Does have a certain charm

Oh yeah...Good Morning

Good morning all.

Sid, Photoshop is not real intuitive. There are usually two different ways to accomplish many tasks. I started using Photo editing programs in the late 1980s. The program was Photo-Styler and that was bought by Adobe to become Photoshop. Heck our version was installed from floppy several discs! We had a 6 MHz IBM AT with a whopping 32 meg hard drive. The scanner we bought was stupid expensive and slow as molasses but I scanned a 8x10 at 300 PPI and it had to be rotated 90 degrees. It took that over the weekend to rotate. We only had 2 MB of RAM at the time. We paid $800 for 4 more megabytes of RAM and the expansion card and then I could rotate a file just 20 minutes. I think of those days sometimes as I work on one of our current giant 1.1 gig files now. The other day the client wanted a single image that covered several square miles at very high resolution. The final file was over 6 gig. Try working on that file with several layers. My new computer did not care, I love having 32 gig of RAM.

In mapping a common file format we use is a compressed file format called MrSid. We have made mosaics of over 500 images. The final file is highly compressed and it is still over 10 gig. The program has a software "cartridge" we have to buy and it will take a 1 gig tif file and make it 20 MB file with very little loss of detail.

We used Corel Draw! for vector files. We became a authorized service center for customer files and a tech support location. We had a few customers get stuck with a task they could not work out with phone support with the national support company. One lady that worked for a big oil company had a huge complicated drawing that was all vector points and she had many layers. She had imported some information from other programs that the center part company logo text was filled white. She was trying to make the center part of the letter O transparent. She had spent days working on it and hours with the paid tech support.

She brought in her 1.2 MB 5.25 inch floppy and I loaded the file. and as she was standing ther she pointed to the problem area. I zoomed in and as she looked for a place to put her purse and pull up a chair I clicked on the center of the O and hit a combination of something like Ctrl & Alt then C and that made the center of the object transparent. She missed it. She looked up and it was the way she had tried to make it look for days. She said STOP!, start over I missed it. SO I started over and showed her how easy it was once you knew the right combination of keys. She had paid for an hour of time and it took 5 seconds. So I spent an hour showing her other features and ways to make her drawing better.

In the end we output the file to our 8x10 film recorder and made 48 inch wide prints mounted behind plexiglass with optically clear adhesive. The graphic looked like it was part of the plexiglass and floated away from the wall. All of her bosses thought she was a genius and she bought me lunch.

Jeff, that wasn't you parking your plane at the pub by chance?

My wife wants to get Photoshop Essentials to do some basic touch ups on her pictures.

Haven't had a good steak in a while. Might have to fire up the grill tomorrow and do some.

For so many years a good clear picture was considered evidence of something. Now every photo is suspect of photo manipulation. Any photo taken with a digital camera is suspect. I hear that now all the news magazines and newspapers require the photographer to submit the RAW file from the camera to proved the image was not enhanced to bend or break the truth. That is the one advantage of film. It only captures what the lens can see.

I opted for the $10/month for CC. That way it's always up to date. I figure I will learn and use it plenty for pictures for listings.


I am somewhat used to dealing with vectors, but in Gerber Omega, which is total different. Basically I'm having to learn as I go, and I don't have time.

Yep, i started using photoshop before it was called photoshop or photostyler, think it was called digital darkroom and only worked in B/W. Look and interface has not really changed much since.

Did some color posters I took to Glen to have printed on the mylar poster stuff. The images were 100 dip, but were 36 x 48 and it took several hours to add a 1/2 inch margin and fill it that margin with black on the biggest fastest computer you could buy at the time and Macintosh IIfx. That was back when the fastest pc was a 486. No such thing as even Pentium or multiple cores. And I remember driving to Dallas to pick up 2-1 meg memory sticks for $700 each and was happy to do it because the going price was $1400 per meg.

The Adobe subscription thing is really cheap compared to buying and updating the software every couple of years. Especialliy if you use more than just photoshop or indesign, or illustrator.

The really great vector graphics program was Freehand. It was much easier to use and faster than illustrator. Especially when monkeying with spot colors. All the drawing was bezier curves like the Paths in photoslop.

Think the hot tool for editing lots of photos is either elements or bridge because you can batch edit and large number at the same time if they need the same filter applied.

I recently downloaded a plug-in from Kodak that does a wonderful one click color restoration of old faded color slides after scanning them in. Out of 500 slides I've done recently only a couple were so faded the plugin couldn't help them much.

I've been doing computer graphics **** way too long.

You know what day it is...

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Skippy McCrory fit was in the power rack today....doing standing drop curls......with a 12.5lb dumbbell. I almost passed myself laughing!

Some people do not want to bulk up. Kinda like running away from a wild animal attack. You don't have to be the fastest or quickest runner in the world, only faster than the guy next to you and only for the time it takes the wild animal to catch him.

Most women wouldn't be in danger of bulking up with a 12.5....and the power rack is not for friggin curls...

Hey now, my son has done curls with 12lbs. Of course he has to use both arms since he is only 5.

Those holster look to be reasonably priced fro what they do.