Enhanced June 2007 Photo Comp.. Discssion thread!!

Like it Pal.
Great minds think alike - I was going to set up one as "Bush Telegraph" but can't find my morse telegraph key since I've been made to tidy up :D

Hey Marley, how does one pronounce - "Duscssion thread!!" :D

 

That's a very well exercised teacher's reply Marley. I used it often.

 

Thanks WOO - I waited ages for that pidge to land - theres usually always one there, but not when I wanted to photograph it!! :rolleyes:

 

Hi, Babe ... you can Call Me anytime with your Fern a Friend ... :rolleyes:

 

:D I am very frondly really

 

Can't make up my mind which is my favourite - they are all so flipping good (mine excluded of course). I was just wondering what software you all have as some of the effects you achieve are mind blowing and I don't seem to get my head around my Paint Shop Pro (antique edition with faults). I've a book for dummies but I don't seem to understand a lot of that. Is there a book for dummies to understand the book for dummies?

Good luck to everyone and thank you for letting me join in this month. As a newbie I feel I've intruded a bit but it's all your fault for inspiring me to play around with photos more.

Now, back to the gardening...................

 

Hi Kryssy, I use PSP version 5 which is ancient too. Just have a play with cropping and the colour drop down menu, you can create something worthwhile with a bit of playing. You can see the enhancements people make after their entries, and the original photo they started with.

 

I'm still using Micrografx Picture Publisher V10, started using it (V2) in 1991, the first colour version. Corel bought it out and buried it.
I also sometimes use the Gimp and Picasa (both freebies)
Picasa (from Google) has the best tool I've seen for curing wonky horizons and leaning verticals, the Gimp works in Linux (when i get hacked off with Windoze)

 

You jus have to keep having a go I think Kryssy - heres a link I found that might be usefull to you

http://anitapsp.webdesignmade4u.be/

 

Hi again everyone. Got rained off completely for the day so time to play inside again.

Can I answer one at a time please�.

Banana Man: I think your PSP must be older than mine (7) so how the heck do you get such good stuff? Like they say, it�s not the equipment it�s the operator.

Dorsetmike: First, I have been looking at your garden photos and they are beautiful but I cannot get the slideshow link to work. I just get the picture I�ve started with and it stays there. Is it my computer? Should I have cookies enabled or whatever? Second, the Gimp. I saw one of my sons wearing a Gimp T shirt which was a weird face thingy and tried to get another on the internet but all that came up were sites for computers so now I know what that is all about. I don�t understand what you mean by Gimp works in Linux but I�m assuming it is something other than Windows. Anyway, I�ll have a read up on it. Thank you for your comments.

Marley Farley: Wish I could just mess about with the program but whenever I try to make layers and then use the Layer toolbar to click from one to the other the computer freezes and I lose everything. Also the selection tool usually does its own selecting and it takes me ages to control it. So you see, I need Christmas to come early so that I can ask Santa to update my PSP.


Marge: The link you sent is brilliant. I�ve just spent a lovely half an hour there. Thank you so much.


WOO: Talk about accident! After spending ages messing with my grapevine pic and trying to be really clever ââ?¬â?? and failing miserably - I finally got the finished article by sheer fluke. I had to write down what I had done very quickly just in case I lost it.

Thanks again everyone but please don�t put any more entries in the competition. Trying to decide on three is killing me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!