A Welcome Note To Newbies

[BLV]

Hi guys!

Found out about this place today through DPreview.com where I've been participating in the NTF for almost a year.

Have very basic PS skills and use mostly curves/levels/USM/healing brush (how did we ever live w/o it?

Looking forward to extending & improving my abilities with the help from RetouchPro.

[ROGER]

Hi moderators and all you other clan

this site is cool and i have learned something all ready but can anyone tell me how to put somebodys head on to someones else shoulders and make it look real and also how to cut someone and insert it into another picture and make it look like its not been plonked there

soory if there long ?s but i really want to learn photoshop and this seems the best place

u can e-mail me if u wish at superman40@ntlworld.com

cheers for all your help

roger

[MrChevy]

Hello users of RetouchPRO;

Always wanting to learn something new, how to do something a different way, make doing something easier. RetouchPRO popped up in a search and so I am making the commitment of time to see if this site makes things simple enough (how to do it lessons) for me to learn a little more as I go through life.

Ani (the BOSS, wife, daughter too? ) and I both shoot. We have a little bit of Canon gear and enjoy the time together. We are always looking to improve our photos (Myself more than Ani, who, coming here from Thailand 4½ years ago is still "growing up" to the ways things are done in our home), she plays with PS7.01 on her computer and I use PS CS on mine (yes , his and hers, side by side so we can play footsies too) and our notebook.

We both enjoy taking Landscape photos but want to learn how to take Portrait/People photos...thus here to learn.

That's a little about me (us) as an introduction to this forum board.

As always, thank you all for making learning resources available to us who need them, (all of us!)

Ken

KenChevy.com
AniChevy.com

[mike_alano]

Another hobbyist in the door here of retouch pro, I am very amazed of this site, I've been working with retouching and restoration for quite a while and wished (but never tried) that I could find a suitable place where I can mix up with kindred spirits... I'm so happy I ended up here "I can't even remember how" I'm looking for a very good time. Whoever did this website is really very "kind" ... you'll go to heaven... I promise


Michael Angelo Alano
Dumaguete, Philippines

[Janet Petty]

Welcome MrChevy. I'm sure you will enjoy learning, creating, and contributing. This is a truly wonderful place for people with the computer/photo/painting bug.

Enjoy,
Janet

[muxx]

Just wanted to say Hi! I am new to the forum.

[Art_uro]

Hey!

I’m learning Adobe Illustrator which I really like what it does and needed some examples of what to do with AI, so I googled and used “Adobe Illustrator challenges” as my keywords and wouldn’t you know it brought me to the ProRetoucher site. What a great find! I have always wanted to make use of what I’ve been learning with these Graphics Softwares and now I’ve found a place to practice and maybe improve my skills.

[lara]

Howdy from another new member! I joined several days ago and have spent some REAL quality time reading posts and seeing the wonderful work done here. And learned tons of new tricks already!

What a great site and resource.

I am a pro shooter in SoCal, mostly newspaper, but some freelance too, and a couple of retouching gigs.

Right now I am taking it easy because of shoulder injuries and surgeries so that means I can spend time learning new things.

Is it still ok to participate in past challenges?

lara

[Flora]

Welcome to RP!!!!

No time limit for any of the challenges .... so just go ahead and have a lot of fun!!!

If you have doubts or questions just ask .... somebody here will surely answer!

P.S. .... Lara .... my daughter's name as well

[Smartdogs]

Hello...I'm Eric, I'm in coastal NC, and I just managed to get retired. So, I'm

I've been shooting for maybe 40 years and been using PS for maybe the last ten. Frankly, I haven't much of a clue how to use it well. Almost all my work involved converting color pix to grayscale for the newspaper my wife and I published, and for other job work in our print shop.

Fact is, I'll probably go back to work in a few months, but right now I am wanting to set up a series of maritime shots I'm taking as sepia prints. I've read and used the info in the tutorials on this site. Unfortunately, I've had only partial success with them. So I'll be posting some questions about that on the appropriate forum. I think some of the problems I had with the tutorial stem from my using PS 5.0...and the tutorial may have assumed 5.5 or above.

One thing I really would like to discuss is the use of a service bureau/vendor to get true photo prints once I get the digital files the way I want them. What would be a good forum to broach that topic?

Just FWIW, I am a dog trainer and a sailor...and I will not admit to any sins beyond those

[why not]

Hello All

Just enjoying a mooch through this Super site, and paused to say Hi Although new to PS was hooked from day one ~ I live in the wilds of Northern England being an Antiques Dealer on a good day lol I love Travel, and capturing those special moments with my last venture Hiking in The Breath taking Grand Canyon, and my next Travels taking me to India in February click... click...

Looking forward to getting to know you all

Sue x

[sgaphoto]

I am trying to figure out how to use the patch tool to patch an area that joins a hard edge and you do not want the tool to pull in info from the surrounding edge area. I did find Russell brown's tutorial on the disappearing surfer to be helpful in photoshop 7, but I would like to know how to use this same technique in CS. How can I make the hard-edged area temporarily transparant to the patch tool like you can in PS7. thanks for any help on this issue and hello to all of you I am newe to this site!

Stephen

[Janet Petty]

Sgaphoto, use it exactly the same way. It works for both 7 and CS. Have fun.

Janet

[Jiggs]

Also new. Joins awhile ago but didn't post until now.

This summer I purchased the Nikon D70 and I also just purchased Photoshop CS. What a learning experience that is!!! I went through Adobe PS CS Classroom in a book and the PS Cs book for digital photographers by Scott Kelby. Both books have been just great for learning some stuff.

I may find what I am looking for here if I snoop around some more but what I have is a b&w photo that looks like its rusty. I was going to see if I could post it here but the closest I came to find how it says it has to be in a tiff format. I put my pictures for upload to other sites on Webshots.com and I don't think I can upload tiff format there. Any suggestions? Also I will go through the challenges to see if anyone else has submitted a picture that looks rusty.

[bogart]

Hi. Just stopping to say hello and be polite as I rummage around trying to absorb such a vast array of knowledge. A friend led me here and I'm glad she did. Fantastic site.

[tonyshaw]

was told about this site by a friend, and decide I needed to check it out!

[anchor]

Following a link on another forum I have just found your site. I must say, having had just a quick look, it is impressive!.

I have only done very few restorations in the past, but look forward to learning how to improve my skills.

[Swampy]

Hi all...

Another newbie to Retouch Pro. I'm impressed with the friendly, constructive messages and willingness of folks to help others! My kind of people

My background is in specialty advertising which requires line (vector) art 99% of the time, but I've been doing some freelance work for a local print shop selling and creating ads for a 68 page Chamber of Commerce membership book, and creating a souviner book for their Caladium Festival Committee. Some manipulation, but mostly scanning, cleanup, color adjust, crop and insert text for ads type work. I'm looking forward to learning some more creative techniques.

I'm not new to computers. I've been doing digital art since the mid 80's, mostly in FreeHand. Ad specialties have special output requirements (embroidery, die cast, hot stamp, silk screen etc) and usually requires spot colors for the separations and line screen requirements are usually very low.

I work on a Mac G5 using the Adobe CS suite and FreeHand (my preference over Illustrator). I'm looking forward to digging in to PhotoShop and I can see this site and the users here will provide much inspiration.

swampy

[durob44]

After reading the welcome note and the friendly words, i have the feeling to come back home. Thanks to give me the oportunity to be here.

[barry_uk]

Hello people just want to say I am one happy guy having found this wonderful
place, where the people are all friendly and willing to give out good sound
advice. Wish I come across it some time ago. I could have saved on the
head aches LOL. Keep up the good work and I hope I can help someone
in return, One question am I seing things am I right in thinking that
this forum has more female members than males! Not one to complain makes
a change go go ladys. What a great place..

Regards Barry.

[Swampy]

Hi durob and barry!

Enjoy yourselves!

[Flora]

Welcome to all the "new" newbies

Look, try, learn, share, exchange ideas and opinions ... feel at home ....

[thomasfoo]

Hi all…
Another new newbie here . My regular job does not involve photography or Photoshop. They are just my hobbies. I hope to learn from all the gurus here to improve my skill and knowledge in these areas. Thank you. (I keep a photo blog at http://pengsan.fotopages.com)

[Krazy]

Seems like I'm really late... I wonder if anyone is even going to read this.... lol.... Hi... 'stands on chair waving arms' Nice to meet you!

[Kraellin]

greetings,

just found this site yesterday from a google search on 'retouch'. very nice site and thought i'd say hello :)

the reason for searching google in the first place, was to do a little research on retouching and restoration(r & r). i've recently been doing a number of r & r's for friends and family and have been using paint shop pro (psp) for years. i also recently upgraded my hardware to a better photo quality printer, a negative scanner and a normal flatbed scanner. all of this in preparation for doing a little professional work, part time. i'm currently semi-retired.

so far, (since yesterday) i've done one challenge, the 'back to work' one with the picture in segments. quite fun :) i've also been browsing the site and trying to figure out all the rules, orientations, places to post, and layout. quite an interesting site. i'm still looking for how to get this challenge pic posted somewhere. seems it's one that has been discontinued and i cant seem to find how to log into the member area. so, i'm somewhat assuming that the member area is something a bit other than your normal account thing here on retouchpro. yes, no?

at any rate, thanks for being here. i've a feeling i'll be spending some time here :)

K.

p.s. i just edited this post to include the challenge pic i did... hope this works :)

[Flora]

Hi Krazy,

....no wonder you didn't see me waving back.....the distance, maybe, and your hat is covering your eyes!!!

Only kidding, ....

A very warm welcome to RP!!

[Flora]

Hi Kraellin,

A very warm welcome to RP!!!

So glad you found us ... whatever interest or future plans you might have for R&R ... you've surely found the right place!!

You have done quite a nice job on your restoration ...

We usually don't post our work in the 'Welcome Forum' but I know that, finding the right place in this great site, can be very confusing at the beginning....

The 'old challenges' area' can't be updated anymore, still, you can work on all the old challenges and, as far as I know, once you have registered here, you can upload your work in the Members' Galleries ....

This Link will take you to the 'upload' section of the Members' Gallery ... if in doubt, click on the 'Help' button on the top right of the 'RetouchPRO Gallery Image Upload' window for further informations ....

Hope this helps

[Kraellin]

hi flora,

thanks for the welcome

i found out why i was having trouble with the gallery. i had blocked the cookies from this site yesterday (i always do on new sites) and forgot that i had to re-enable the cookies for this site. so, i can get in and see all now.

as for the attachment in the first post, i can remove it if necessary. call it a greeting card i may post the larger one in the gallery when i get more familiar with things around here.

again, very nice site

K.

[Kraellin]

ok, being a newbie, i'm entitled to a few of these; i looked at your link to the gallery upload and noted that it's a 200k limit per pic and a 1 meg limit of disk space. that's really nice of you folks! however, i'm curious, what's your policy on posting from another site (one i use to post pics on other forums... see my avatar properties). is there an area in the gallery, perhaps, that allows this? and what about in other threads? and do the smaller 100k pics with thumbnails count towards that 1 meg limit, or is that a separate thing?

K.

[Flora]

Hi,

Originally Posted by Kraellin

.... however, i'm curious, what's your policy on posting from another site (one i use to post pics on other forums... see my avatar properties).

"The gallery can't handle links, and you can't post outside pix directly to the forums, but many users have posted links to their sites in the relevant area of the forum. It would be better to attach, since the link will inevitably go dead, rendering the information provided in that thread useless to future readers."

Originally Posted by Kraellin

.... and do the smaller 100k pics with thumbnails count towards that 1 meg limit, or is that a separate thing?

As far as I know, they are separate...