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nwoods

nwoods

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Just before Christmas Adobe had some black friday type deals so I ended up buying Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3 for me, and then Elements 9 (photoshop and premier) for my wife. Adobe lets you load on two machines (using one at a time though), so now we both have everything. Sweet!.

LR3 scares me. I previously had the Beta version, played with it for a few weeks, went to a class on it, and left more befuddled than ever. It intimidates me so much I haven't even loaded LR3 on my machine yet. I will, but not right now.

CS5 and Bridge do everything I need for now. CS5's content aware fill is magical, and it's photomerge tools (pano's) are really good too. It has HDR tools, but I have not used them yet.

F40fax, I have a fantastic training video from the Master, Mr. Scott Kelby on CS3. It taught me so much, it's an amazing video, and fun, and super easy to watch, learn, and then implement on your own. PM me your info and I will send it to you. If anyone has anything similar on LR3, send it my way, I need some serious help with that one.



fj40fax said:
What is the best way to learn Photoshop? I have CS3 but have no idea how to use it. Is there a video series on youtube or something that will get me to know how to do some basic things on it? I need to resize, enhance color (like making the sky color more blue on some shots), create a large wide format (30" wide) image from many smaller pictures to send to the printer, etc.
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fj40fax

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nwoods said:
F40fax, I have a fantastic training video from the Master, Mr. Scott Kelby on CS3. It taught me so much, it's an amazing video, and fun, and super easy to watch, learn, and then implement on your own. PM me your info and I will send it to you. If anyone has anything similar on LR3, send it my way, I need some serious help with that one.
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PM sent, THANKS!
 
rambrush

rambrush

Adventurer
There are the you tube video series called you suck at photoshop. He moves at a pretty good clip though.
 
Honu

Honu

lost on the mainland
LR3 and PS CS5

I did skip CS4 ? I usually skip a version depending on if it has things that are worth it for my work ?

CS5 is very nice :) and with 64 bit enough memory and SL (Mac person) it can really move some files around
CS5 for the mac users who are on a mac that can run SL in 64 bit mode its a worth while upgrade for sure !!!!!
for editing I live on a Wacom tablet and my own custom X keys setup that is programed with controllermate

also for LR if you work in it a lot ? getting the cache on SSD make it a lot quicker in develop mode to get those white sliders white and keep you working :)
its about the cache not the catalog or original lfiles but the cache that makes it quicker I did a ton of testing on this stuff

I have a post production company we do album production and also PS and raw conversions for pro photographers so I work in PS every day and LR about 4-5 days a week and the wife works in PS every day also
our company is 14 years now :) so been at it a while

I am also a photographer :) used to be commercial then got into weddings now getting back into commercial with some weddings
 
Bella PSD

Bella PSD

Explorer
Mac Pro 64 bit Snow Leopard. CS5 and LightRoom 3. I had trouble running music in slide shows with LightRoom 3 so this last week I have been trying out Aperture 3, why the heck not….its under $90 now! So far I like it but LightRoom is a hard habit to kick.
 
jeffy

jeffy

Observer
I uses Lightroom 3 and CS2. I don't do anything fancy in PS anymore though. Just resize and minor adjustments, clean ups, etc... Then save-to-web.
 
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