Adventures in Photoshop, Part __ ?

[red_satin_doll]

Trying to teach myself PS CC is sometimes fun and sometimes sends me screaming into the night. As in last night, trying to correct a photograph of a rose I wanted to have printed and just muffing it up horribly. *le sigh

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[snogged]

Really gorgeous work on your coloring!

[red_satin_doll]

Thank you very much sweetie!

[nmcil12]

great discussion everyone - you did a fine job with your PS - and for encouragement my story with PS - I knew zero about PS and digital work when I took it up. My first adventures were like spending six hours trying to learn how to move friggin text and type - my husband walks in and showed me how to do it in minutes. I tried so many different ways and search my book for so long looking for index info on "moving text" Come to find out PS thinks everyone just knew that "nudge" meant "moving"

It's a cheap fix but I also just copy elements from the photos or images I am working on and place them over the super bad spots as cover -

Even after all these years I am still at a beginners level - Just Keep at it and It's just plain great creative life fun.

[red_satin_doll]

Speaking of text, I still need to learn how to wrap text, how to curve it and bend it around an object, etc.

Come to find out PS thinks everyone just knew that "nudge" meant "moving"

Good to know!

Doesn't that drive you crazy? It's great that your husband was able to help - I'm lucky that our friend is knowlegable (but he doesn't have a mac so that can be a challenge) and we can't keep him here all the time. Folks here on LJ are really nice thank goodness. (I have noticed if you go online to forums etc people can be very nice or treat you like dirt for not being "knowlegable enough".)

Like I want to put a nice misty frame on a banner in PS - and I ended up having to go back to ipiccy to do that. I look forward to really knowing what I am doing!

You achieve some really gorgeous effects and you have a definite style all your own.

I also just copy elements from the photos or images I am working on and place them over the super bad spots as cover Totally legit! In ipiccy I've used a copy of the image I'm working on as a texture

[infinitewhale]

For sharpening images, the method I've always used is similar to above, but a little different.

1.) Go to channels and select the most crisp-looking. Usually it's green, especially if you're talking Buffy screencaps. Copy it and paste it to a new layer. Make sure you hit RGB so all channels are visible before going back to layers view.

2.) Select the Green (or whatever layer you copied) and run a high pass filter on it. You want it so just the edges are visible. Typically it's around .8-1.2.

3.) Unsharp Mask filter it. Just enough to make it crisp.

4.) Set the layer to Overlay or Soft Light.

It'll be sharper, but without all the noisiness you get from processing all the layers with the sharpen filter.