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#61
10-09-2002, 09:25 PM
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| A few days ago I dropped by here and noticed the Photo-Based Art forum. Making photo-based art is something I tried a couple years ago, and gave up out of frustration. But maybe I'll do better now that I know more about color adjustment and photo-editing tools. So I downloaded the Bambi pic to see what I can do. Anyway, that's about it. And I better get back to working on the Bambi pic. I'm going to be switching to a new computer soon, and I want to finish before dealing with this other computer. Andrew           |
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#62
10-10-2002, 01:52 AM
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| Welcome Andrew and Visual Eyes! Hi Andrew, and welcome! You will love this place, I guarantee...always something new to see and do and learn! I only found it this past summer and very quickly became hooked. And Truman, thanks for the fascinating bio. Your full education partially explains your skillful work, but as we all know, knowlege alone isn't enough. Whatever that secret ingredient in art is, you definitely have it! Phyllis |
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#63
10-10-2002, 01:59 AM
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| Andrew... As moderator of the Photo-art forum, I'm especially delighted you found us and dropped in. Welcome aboard. If you have any questions on anything, feel free to send me e-mail or personal mail (PM botton below). Again, welcome. Look forward to seeing your Bambi creation. ~DannyR~ |
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#64
10-12-2002, 10:33 AM
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| You Gotta Be Kidding?! (actually a very clever moniker) Welcome to RetouchPRO, Chuck. You've found a great place to hang out and learn. Now that you've got time on your hands (good for you), I'm sure there are gobs of current and archive threads that will be educational and informative. You and I are in about the same youth group  (I'm 50, going on 29) and have similar interests and 'How I got started' stoires. I'm a West Coast person too (Seattle area); born in L.A., moved to WA in 1965.If you have any questions about anything or need advice, don't hesitate to send me Personal Mail (PM button below). If you haven't seen the "site map" yet, click the link below my signature. Again, welcome aboard, and enjoy the ride. It gets better every day. ~DannyR~ |
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#65
10-23-2002, 10:26 PM
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| Newbie Intro Well, my first post. My name is Steve Campbell and I live in Armidale, Northern NSW Australia. I have been "playing" with restoring photos on my Canon 660 scanner for a while, and now have made the leap to fully digitising the last 40 years of slides and negs by purchasing a canon 4000dpi film scanner. All I now have to do is learn how to use it ........and Photoshop!I am really excited about finding the "font of knowledge" as I have been restoring photos for the last 12 months with not a clue of the best way of going. I have several big restoration jobs coming up courtesy of my mother-in-law (some really old prints of her gradparents). I have one quick question. What is the combined wisdom concerning handling of prints, negs and slides. Do you wear gloves, and if so what type? I use cotton gloves with prints but they are hopeless for negs as they cover them in dust!! I don't even know whether cotton is the best for prints, but it seemed preferrable to my "grubby paws". Hope to here from you soon, and really enjoy your forums. |
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#66
10-23-2002, 11:17 PM
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| Welcome aboard Steve. I have been a member here for a little less than a month, but am becoming annoyingly omnipresent. As a fellow newbie, I like the challenges best - you see so much creativity, and so many different takes on the same subject. You should try your hand! See you around. Toad |
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#68
10-24-2002, 11:22 AM
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| Steve: Let me add my welcome, too. You've joined a great site where members are knowledgeable and friendly -- and the wealth of information and opportunities to learn are plentiful. Don't believe Toad's comment about him being annoyingly omnipresent.. He was just being modest. You'll find his contributions supportive and creative. Look forward to seeing your forum contributions. Nice to have you aboard. ~DannyR~ |
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#69
10-24-2002, 11:41 AM
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| Welcome Steve, I have been here for a little while now and am still enjoying - learning - experiencing so much. The galleries - challenges are so much fun I have learnt more here in the last couple of months than I have in years and its been enjoyable as well. I still haven't covered all the areas to be found here - theres just so many to be found. Welcome and I am sure you will find this as freindly and helpful as I have Clare |
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#70
10-24-2002, 01:10 PM
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| I'm new My name is Stella Nemeth. In my day job I "program" Access Databases. The "program" is in quotes because I don't write code. This is a pretty odd job for an old lady. You can't belive what I had to go through to convince my current boss I really did know how to do this stuff.  I've been playing with computers since we bought a Commodor 64 back in the days when computers didn't have hard drives and the Commodors didn't have floppy drives either.I've been involved in digital photography for several years. We've got two digital camera and I'm on my second scanner and second photo printer. Until a few weeks ago I never used Photoshop. I've used several different consumer-type photo programs over the years and had outgrown them all, but couldn't seem to get over the hump on the learning curve for Photoshop even though I owned a copy of Photoshop 5. Then I tried to load yet anothr one of "those programs" on the computer and the computer locked up during the instal. That did it. I'd had enough. It was just once too often. I had a copy of Photshop Elements on the computer too and I searched the Web for Tutorials so I could learn to use it at least a little. I got almost to the Intermediate level when the upgrade for that program came out and decided not to buy it but to upgrade Photoshop from 5 to 7 instead. I'm not sure how I found this site, but I'm very glad I did. I've already tried one of the challenges and I'll upload it soon. |
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#71
10-24-2002, 01:42 PM
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| Hi Stella: Regardless of how you found us, * * * W E L C O M E * * * to our happy campground! Gosh: Commodore 64 to programming Access applications. Now that's a leap! Are you using VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) in your programming endeavors? If so perhaps once you get into PS7, you'll have an interest in dabbling in (or diving into) into PS7's new scripting module. VB along with Java are supported, which enable folks with the right experience / skill set (this excludes me) to write some really custom Photoshop procedures. With your background, you'll fit right in to RetouchPRO (actually, you already have). Thanks for sharing a bit about yourself. Look foward to seeing you around. ~DannyR~ |
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#72
10-25-2002, 10:12 PM
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| Thanks for the welcome You asked if I program in Visual Basic. No I don't, which is why I put the word program in quotes. It is amazing what one can do with Access' own built in tools. Basically I pull data from another database. Export it in ASCII. Inport it into Access and then slice it, dice it and analyze it. I've got a few real databases going too, where we add data entry to the data we pull out of the Company database, and then run mail merges with it in Word. I do queries, forms, reports and macros, but no Visual Basic. In addition to needing to reconstruct the few heritage photos I've got, I want to do scrapbook pages in Photoshop. I've managed to get a few that I really like already, but I know there is a lot more possibilities in the program. |
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#73
10-29-2002, 01:28 PM
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| Stella -- good for you! Photoshop can do so much, so it's really (one of) the best program(s) to learn if you're serious about working with photos. There are folks here at just about every level of knowledge, so whatever level you're now at, you'll fit in and be able to start getting even better. If you have a particular area of Photoshop that you're currently struggling with, let us know and someone will have a tip or a link to a good tutorial -- here or elsewhere on the internet. Looking forward to seeing some of your work. |
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#74
10-29-2002, 03:04 PM
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 Hi! My name is Trine Sirnes and I live in Fredrikstad, Norway with my boyfriend, Knut Fredrik and every second weekend and in hollidays, his two sons. I'm a passionate amateur photographer as well as interested in everything digital(camera, internet, webdesign etc.). I'm a member of several photocommunities on the net, and it was in one of them someone told me about this place. And what a great place I found  It really challenges your creativity and gives you so many new ideas, as well as the oportunity to learn from very talented people.  Trine |
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#75
10-29-2002, 05:33 PM
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| Trine: I am SO glad you found this site. Over the past few days I've been admiring the images you have uploaded for the various challenges. Your works are exceptionally innovative and inspirational. I hope you find as much enjoyment here as we find enjoyment viewing your creations. Thanks for telling us a little about yourself. It's an honor to have you join us. Welcome to the RetouchPRO family. ~DannyR~ |
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#76
10-29-2002, 08:25 PM
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My husband does an annual professional conference and takes loads of pictures there. Because the lighting is very odd, almost every photo needs work, but generally the same kind of work. This time, using Photoshop, I was able to apply the curve from photo a to photo b, c and d. Not only did I get good results, but they were very fast good results. Except for the few photos with bad color... |
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#77
10-29-2002, 08:48 PM
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Some of RetouchPro's Retouching Challenges are related to color casts. You might want to look at this one for starters (when you have some extra time). The names listed below on that page are linked to each of the previous submissions by past and present members here -- with some details on their technique. There are some tutorials on the web related to color correction also, in case you haven't already seen them. Retouching Challenge -- K-Mart Special (Orange color cast) |
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#78
10-31-2002, 01:06 PM
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| Philip Lombardi HI my name is Philip (Phil) Lombardi and I live in the state thats hard to Photograph, New Jersey. I am married 41 years have four kids and 7 grandchildren and boy do I love them. At 63 this forum has been a reburth for me. I also was in corporate America and inbetween I did some pro photography wedding and a little commercial.(1970). About ten years ago I learned computers and in my office I am the Guru. Ha HA. I first got Adobe Photoshop 4 and basicly I have only done some photo colorization until two years ago. Last year I joined this forum and have expanded into Photoshop 7 and in the last six months I have taken the artsy part of it seriously. Danny has helped me alot and the post from you guys are awsome and make me want to get better. I have a mechanical ability which helps me figure things out. I am open for all comments because thats how we get better. |
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#79
10-31-2002, 01:07 PM
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| Hi, I'm Art Hill. I live in La Grange Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. I've lived in the Chicago area all my life. I started taking pictures about 45 years ago with an Argus C-3. After my kids grew up I didn't do much photography until I got my first digital camera. Since then I've gone nuts. I just bought a Nikon 5700 and took it to Paris on our vacation. I'm pretty happy with it. I have a wonderful wife and two married daughters - they both live near downtown Chicago. I have a web site where I display a lot of my pictures at http://www.windycityart.com/ I'm looking forward to learning a lot as manipulation, retouching, etc has never been my strong suit. I'm learning. |
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#80
10-31-2002, 01:14 PM
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| Wecome (again) to both of you. Art: Gosh, I too started out with an Argus C-3 in the late 50's. I'm pretty sure it's stashed somewhere at my mothers house. How the technology (photo equipment, computer-wise) has evolved since then! Phil: Since you've been married 41 years, you should be giving ME advice on the subject. You must be doin' a lot of things right! Congratuations.~Danny~ |
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#83
11-09-2002, 12:46 PM
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| Hi, I've Loren, I’ve been lurking for a while, I stumbled across this page a month or so ago looking for help in colorizing old photos.... I'm 16 and attend Trimble County High School in Kentucky; one of those little towns where the zip code is more than the population. I've lived around, with and on computers all my life.... I had a Commodore 64 too but all I ever did was play Sesame Street and Dream House. I’ve been photo manipulating for… 5 or 6 years I think. I use Paint Shop Pro 7 and am mainly a cut and paste girl myself. But I try to do it well; and I’d like to learn more :) I’ve helped my father restore old photos for his patients and himself… But I’m still at that age where my biggest problems are grades and what my best friend said behind my back. And I’m going to relish it :) Also I have a tendency to type like I talk… So just ignore the Um… and the er… and all the unfinished sentences… It just means I’m nervous… ~nods~ Um… I don’t think I have much else to say. So… Ttyl |
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#84
11-09-2002, 01:45 PM
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| Sibyllea: We're honored to have you. Thanks for sharing a bit about yourself. For your age it sounds like you've got a great deal of experience and will no doubt bring a breath of fresh air to RetouchPRO. If you haven't read it yet I invite you to pop over to my "Welcome Thread" in the Photo-art forum. It will give you a quick overview of that part of the neighborhood. BTW: I like, er, your writing style. You'll fit right in here! Again, WELCOME. Glad you found us. ~DannyR~ |
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#85
11-09-2002, 07:26 PM
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| Welcome HI Sibyliea My name is Phil handle phili1 and welcome to the best place to learn and practice retouching. There are alot of talented people who have helped me and I am sure you as well. Its a place to have fun. Well ok I will excuse your um and er if you excuse my spelling. |
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#86
11-21-2002, 06:51 PM
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| Well now that I've been here for a while I guess I could post some info about myself. I'm embarrased to say that I Just found the Salon forum. Guess I've been living in a box. Anyway, I'm 50 years young and have been married to my wife Cindy for 31 years. We have one grown Son who is 28 years old. We've lived in Lake Charles, LA for most of our adult lives. I work for a fortune 1000 bank, been with them for 14 years but I'm not a banker. I work for the IT department as a network field support engineer. My coverage region is most of southwest Louisianna so I do travel a lot. I've had many different hobbies throughout the years, most of them very expensive. I shot a lot of film in the late 70's but that took a backseat to Ham Radio in the early 80's. I bought my first computer in 81, a Commadore Vic 20, so that I could use it as a RTTY and morse code interface. That opened my eyes to computers and began what would turn into a profession in 1984. Been fooling with puters ever since. Started in the retail end of the business with Microage Computers and went to the consumer end of the business in 1988 when I went to work for the bank. Got involved with cameras again 2 years ago when I bought my first digital. This led to photoshop and that's where I am now. Hope one day to earn a small income at home with photo restoration. Right now I can only dedicate what time I have left at the end of the day, unless I get called out. I have enjoyed my experiences here a very much. You guys have taught me a lot but I have a long way to go yet. Hope I haven't bored you to tears. Kevin Beatty |
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#87
11-21-2002, 08:11 PM
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 Hi Kevin. My name is Phil and I have you beat by some years in marrage and Life. Welcome aboard. All I can say is I joined a year ago and no knowledge of photoshop other then to color correct photos, I made bad attempts at restoration and retouching. Now the good part, you will meet on this forum people like Danny, Phyliss, CJ, That Girl,Chuck, Visual eyes, looker, Trine, Wanda and a whole lot of great people who will gently critisize your work and guide you with new tricks to use and you will get addicted to the people and the challanges. You will not want to go on the road. The main thing here is have fun and learn. BY the way in the begining you are going to say I dont belong here some of these guys are to great and all of a sudden your work starts to improve because of them. You are going to love this forum. If I spell anything wrong its my typing my fingers do not do what I tell them all the time. |
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#88
11-21-2002, 08:30 PM
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| Hi Phill, thanks for the warm welcome. I already do love this forum and have met many of the persons you mentioned. I have been impressed with the knowledge that abounds here. I look forward to meeting more of the users here. By the way my hands sometimes have a mind of their own too. |
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#89
11-22-2002, 12:01 AM
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| Hey Kevin: Nice getting to know you a little better. I've appreciated many of your insightful posts (mostly in the hardware forum). Nice to have someone with your tech skills and experience to help troubleshoot and/or share what's up with printers, servers and all that sort of stuff in the hardware world. I discovered Photoshop about the time you did and, like you, am having a blast. Oh yeah: It was a pic of your dog that Jak used in the Photo-art forum. Great pic to have fun with. ~DannyR~ |
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#90
11-22-2002, 07:57 PM
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| Hi Danny, thanks for your comments. Maybe some day I will be able to offer advice in some of the other forums. There is no shortage of pictures of Heidi here. No grandchildren yet so I have to take pictures of something. |
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