Wednesday 23 November 2011

A First Quick Fumble With Photoshop Elements 10

I dropped lucky yesterday. Amazon are having a Black Friday Sale this week. In the sale certain products from across their full range are available at reduced prices though in limited numbers and for limited times. When I looked PS Elements 10 was available for half price so I grabbed a copy. It arrived this morning and this is my first attempt to fumble my way round a different photo program.

Lovely Sunrise this morning so I took a few snaps with the Lumix TZ10 by taking a light reading from the brightest part of the sky and then lowering the view. This is the one I tried in Elements:

Before:
Sunrise

After:
Sunrise

6 comments:

  1. Very nice effects, especially the windows.

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  2. Good luck with the new software John.
    Made a good start with it.

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  3. Thank you Wilma. It was mainly removing the wires and lightening the foreground a bit.

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  4. Thanks Keith. It's always fraught changing software and finding where they have hidden the bits I want to use.

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  5. John, it's always worth trying Full Edit>Enhance>Lighting>Shadows/Highlights. One can often save on selecting the foreground. I don't know what you used to remove the wires and pole but the spot healing brush now has content aware. Make sure the latter is checked and your brush is just a wee bit bigger than the wire you want to remove. Adjust brush size by holding Shift and pressing [ or ] for smaller and larger respectively.

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  6. Thanks for the Enhance / Lighting tip Adrian. I'm pretty sure that was the brush I ended up using. I am not a one for much kbd use, except for text, so there is a lot to get used to.

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Thank you for visiting. Hope you enjoyed the pictures. Any comment, or correction to any information or identification I get wrong, is most welcome. John

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