I still don’t get Photoshop.
All of those functions
buried
in miles of menus.
The class was half
photography, half
post-processing.
I arrived with my Nikon D-70.
Everyone else had D-200s.
All of them, experienced.
Me? No clue,
other than my artists eye.
Feeling inadequate
and shaky, I left early.
Looking back on the shots
I took that day,
I decided they weren’t bad.
Better to take good shots
in the first place.
Maybe I don’t need
Photoshop after all.
©CathyUlrich and LargeSelf, 2012
lol, no we don’t need photoshop!! 🙂
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Yes! I’ve come to that conclusion! 😉
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If it’s perfect as it is why change it? xx
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Yes, I think so. So many photographers swear by Photoshop and I think there are times when it is very useful. But with each new release, it seems to just get more and more complicated. I guess, I just enjoy doing my best so I don’t have to spend all the extra time on post processing. Thanks, Patricia!
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I think you are so talented..you don’t need Photoshop!
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Thanks, Mimi! Well, it also helps to have great digital cameras. You can pick the best and send the rest to the trash bin! Those are the ones that you won’t see! 😉
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My boss, who has an excellent eye and takes gorgeous photographs, invested a chunk of change in a week-long course in Photoshop at the International Center for Photography here in Gotham City a year ago. She was in over her head and most of what she learned went in one eyeball and out the other. Depending on what you’d like to do in Photoshop, maybe all you really need to know is the basics and then you figure out the rest on your own? Your flower shot looks lovely.
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Thanks, V!
Whew! A week long Photoshop course – that would make my brain hurt! The thing about a huge software package like Photoshop is: without some training, you don’t even know what it can do, much less how to do it. I suspect the learning what it can do would be a good reason to take an intensive course like that. What I actually do when I really need help is go do a tutorial on YouTube for some specific fix.
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That’s what one of my graphic design buddies does, too. Apparently, if you’re clued in about Photoshop those YouTube tutorials can be quite helpful.
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lol
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