[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 Photoshop 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 Photoshop 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 RetouchPRO!!!!

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 Photoshop 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 Photoshop 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 Photoshop 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 Photoshop CS Classroom in a book and the Photoshop 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.