A Welcome Note To Newbies

[Flora]

Hi thomasfoo,

Welcome to RP!

Originally Posted by thomasfoo

My regular job does not involve photography or Photoshop. They are just my hobbies.

...Just a word of warning... these hobbies can become quite addictive!!!

...Anyway, you have come to the right place and we are happy to have you aboard!!

[Marthig]

I agree with the warning about this hobbies being highly addictive. I love anything that have to do with colors, images, photos, etc. that is why as I say above this is the place for me !

I have been browsing just a few places in this fantastic site and I am sure it will still take me a while to get to know it completely.

Thank you Doug for creating it !

and a Hi ! to all the fellow members !!

marthig (Martha)

[Flora]

Hi Martha,

Welcome to RP!

Glad you decided to join the place I called 'paradise' on earth when I first 'stumbled' on it!!!

[Marthig]

Originally Posted by Flora

Hi Martha,

Welcome to RP!

Glad you decided to join the place I called 'paradise' on earth when I first 'stumbled' on it!!!

Thank you Flora for your welcome
As a matter of fact I found this site with "Stumble upon", a fantastic portal to countless marvelous places like RP !!

Martha

[Kraellin]

thanks flora

as you've seen from at least one thread we're sharing, i'm finding my way around. what a great bunch of folks and what interesting subject matter. so again, thanks for being here and communicating

K.

[deadants]

I have to echo Kraellins sentiments. I have been a registerd user since last year. I have finally got my backside into gear and posted on the restoration forum. I just love trying to rescue other peoples lost treasures. I hope I'm going to learn a lot more ofphotoshop by trying the tutorials and joing in on some of it interesting topics that are all over this vast forum.

cheers
deadants

[jfricker]

I am on another forum and your link was posted this morning. I am very excited to be able to join you all. I am in the process of doing a hertiage album for my 91 year old Mother.
Many of her pictures need help and I am looking forward to learning how to fix many of her pictures.

I purchased Adobe Photoshop CS2 in April and have been taking a wonderful online class to help me learn how to use it.

I look forward to getting to know you all.

Joan

[Marthig]

Welcome Joan !

You will find excellent professionals here to learn from. You are in the right place for the heritage project for your Mom.
I am sure you will enjoy being a member in this forums.

Best regards - Martha

[Melsa]

Hi

I am Melissa. I guess I am a newbie when it comes to this. I am a Mixed Media artist. I mainly do rubber stamping and collage type art. I have recently opened a businiess selling collage sheets to my fellow artists. I have 100's of antigue photos well over 100+ yrs old. My reason for joining here is to get these photos restored. Some are a mess with yellow blotches and some are just faded and worn. And some are not recognizable, So I came here to learn how to fix these.

I have read a lot of the tutorials and am impressed by all. I can't wait to find the ones that can teach me how to fix these photos. Thanks for making such a great place.

Melissa

[Kraellin]

hi melsa,

and welcome to RP!

probably the best place to get started on your restoration project is right here in this forum, the restoration forum. if you've got the pics scanned, just post one and folks will wander in and take a look, offer advice and tips, and perhaps even do one themselves.

if you'd like to date the images, try the history forum further down in the list of forums. we've got folks here that can help with that as well.

Craig

[byrt_001]

Hi everyone

Im fanally here, after a very looong period of ups and downs and no work I fanally got internet connection.

I would like to thanks eveyone in here for such a wonderful site, my passion is photography and photoshop. I recently moved to Australia and after a very long period I started ussing photoshop againg.
I also trying to finish my site, which is been a lot of hard work, with some major problems such as hard drive giving up and then my monitor! so at the moment im ussing a rented one and not sure if what im seeing is right.

Anyway I will be around looking for in the tutorials and forums.

Reagards

Christian
http://www.sunpixs.com

[Melsa]

Thanks for the welcome....

So much to learn here...I never knew. WOW!!! I have a lot to absorb reading all this info. Every one seems so helpful in finding your answers. I will be here a lot.

Melissa

[Lacrymator]

This site is the marriage of two things I hold dear, Digital Photo Editing and a supportive online community.

I am in awe of all that is here!

Cant wait to upload some of my work.

Lac

[byRo]

Hi there, Lac

If you are posting to the Forums, remember that the limit is 100K - have a look at this thread, just to get off on the right foot.

For the challenges area the limit is 200K.

Have fun!!

Rô

[nvstyle]

Im Tonya a photographer here in the Houston metro area. Im looking to also learn pro retouching so I could also offer that service to photographers around the area, and also national.

I have been here a few days and posted on your forums. This is really a excellent site for retouching I have learned more from here in the few days i been here. I have passed this site so many times but never joined, I could kick myself for that, but a makeup artist in a forum on ezboard told me to come here for retouching guidance and Im glad I did.

[atlas]

Hi All,

My first post I have been playing around with photos & videos for sometime, but only recently got a digital SLR with a couple of nice lenses and I am having a ball, so have spent the last couple of weeks looking for books, mags & the net to help me get the most out of it....

I have Photoshop 7 & Photoshop elements 3 and am struggling to say the least, but sure with time it will get better

Look forward to reading the old threads and picking up some great tips.

Cheers,

Atlas

Brisbane QLD
Australia

[jorgegon]

comic sans How can I get help I need to put a old photo here since am new here I do not know how to do it can you help me??

[Cameraken]

Hi Jorge/Gon

Welcome to Retouch Pro.

Please follow the link below for Instructions

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7933


Ken

[Sheri Medford]

I am a new member but have never taken part in forums or chats. I need to understand how to reply to a forum. When I click on the retouch discussion I only see a new thread button, why does this one have a reply button and others don't. I don't want to start a new thread do I when I want to join a discussion. Maybe I just don't get the forum terms. It looks like there are forums that have many threads and you can reply to a thread or start a new topic? If I have questions like these or problems with file size to upload etc what do I do if I don't see a reply button? When do I know I ought to start a thread?

[Pardus]

Hiya

I'm a professional photographer and have been using Photoshop for a few years now. I actually thought I was pretty good at re-touching faces.....until I came across Chanelle's website [her username on here is Shellby] - and quite dramatically I felt like a complete newbie that had had a huuuuuge head!


So I'm here to learn. I've spent so long trying to improve my photography skills, why not the photoshop side too?!

I can't wait to see how it's all done so very well. I may even post up a few attempts [if I'm brave enough!!] at a later date after reading up on techniques.

[shellby]

Hello and thanks.

Do a search for skin and you will find a good few threads on here explaining the subject. Also search for the user HEYRAD he outlines a great technique for skin using non destructive dodge and burn.

Good luck
Shellby

[detune]

Hi All,

Just joined up cos I've decided to take that step into the world of re touching... I've been fairly hard core against retouching but its time to open my eyes a little..

Anyway, here's my website of fairly un touched images if you wanna have a look - www.detunephotography.com

Thanks all,
Doug

[Swampy]

Detune...Welcome aboard. :-)

I took a tour of your gallery, GREAT stuff.

[detune]

thanks so much I'm kinda leaning towards the world of film a bit more these days but the work when i do get it is always digital so, gotta do what I gotta do to survive right? Otherwise I'll have to settle for my laaaaaame o day job

[GoKyu]

Hey all! I've been using Photoshop on and off since version 5 (mostly off, to be totally honest ), and have gotten more into it in the past 7 or 8 months to the point where I joined NAPP in April

While my main interests lie with color correcting photos, retouching does come into play now and then. I can do some of the basics, but a photo with a million scratches all over it...that's a Katrin Eismann level photo

Anyway, I hope to learn as much from this forum as I've learned from NAPP already!

-Bryan

[Gary Richardson]

He who doesn't speak a foreign tongue, doesn't know his mother tongue.

Interesting signature.

Welcome to RP, have fun learning.

[aceman]

Hi.

Ive posted a couple of times since I joined a few weeks back but I thought id say HI.

I have a few years and many thousands of images of experience in restoration. I was one of the original people at the place in New Zealand that walgreens outsourced all their work too ( After some of the work that managed to get through our QA process im not sure thats a good thing to say ). After a year and many thousands of photos later I moved onto a quality control / trainer role at the same place. Was made redundant about a year after that, and now working on a helpdesk for an ISP.

Me and my girlfriend ( who is also an experienced retoucher ) are starting our own restoration firm at the moment.. so stay tuned . It will be primarily New Zealand based for a start with the possibility of some internet jobs. Not sure.

I have also done a few high end retouches for major companies like sony etc and would love to one day to be involved in that side of things for a living.

Outside of retouching I enjoy sailing, music, and beer.

[al_m]

Hi,

I'm Al and I have recently joined the community. My primary professional interest is in digital photography software and image processing. Computers and programming were the first thing I loved. But then... one day me brother bought a digital camera and I fell in love with taking pictures. More than that!Having advanced computer skills and experience I was able to do magic around photos. Color correction, watermarking, colorization, artistic frames, digital albums, galleries etc. This world makes me glued to my monitor. Recently, I've started a blog devoted to digital photogrpahy software where I publish my real-life stories about digital imaging and utilities.

The last review was about photo retouching. I tried a specialized photoshop plugin and restorated several old photos from my grandma's old photo album. However, while the utility saved me much time, there were some things that it couldn't cope with.

So, I joined here to learn more and share my own experience.

Greetings form Minsk, Belarus.


__
Al Murauski,
http://www.digital-photography-software.com

[Flora]

Hi aceman, Al,

welcome to RP!

Great to have you both on board!!

[Evandra]

Hi, I am new to posting here. Being shy it is hard for me to post. But this place is so awesome. I have recently upgraded to PS and am addicted to photo restoration/repair and editing. I found this place awhile ago, through one of the many tute sites I have for PSP and there was a link for this place for skin tones. I thought I had found heaven when I found this place. I spend many hours here reading and printing all the wonderful tips and techniques. One this I was wondering about was I absolutly postive that there was an eye color chart here as well, and I have searched high and low and can not find it anywhere. I think my most favorite technique is colorizing black and white, and I have a precious pic of a baby over his mummys shoulder, and I colored the blanket a nice powder blue, but I would really try to colorize his eyes as well. Anyways, thanks for all posters who take the time to place tutes I really appreciate it alot.

Eva