This is so lovely! I wish you were giving tutorials for these, I'd love to know how to make something like this. I got PhotoShop for my 65th Birthday last year, but the honest truth is that it scares me to death! It keep referring to layers! "You can't do that with this kind of layer - or that kind of layer", "You must flatten the layers, first," blah, blah, so many rules, it scares me. How long did it take you to learn this mysterious program?
I had a friend who's husband lost his job. To make money she sold cards and did fancy things to your photos for you. I inquired how she did it and she told me about Photoshop Elements. Then she said it was way too hard for anyone to learn. I showed my sister-in-law the cards and she asked how they were done. I repeated the story and she was very perturbed that someone said something was too hard for her to learn. So she purchased the program and muscled her way through until she was quite good. I asked her to teach me. My timing was just right because she, with her new Photoshop skills, became a really great photographer, wedding announcement lady and she now charges and would have no time to teach me. And I just acquired a program to capture screen video so I am going to make a ton of tutorials and give away all my secrets on how I make everything. For free. Because it's me ;)
As far as layers go: It's easiest to think of layers in Photoshop as sheets of clear transparency papers. One has something on it, and if you stack another clear sheet on top you can make a different image. So on my background here I had a sheet with a rubber duck, but the rest of the paper was transparent. It was sitting on top of a sheet with with a flower image, and that on top of a sheet with plaid paper and so on. I flattened it to smash it all together into a flat photograph instead of umpteen layers. I don't know how much experience you have with transparency papers but that's how I had to wrap my head around it when I started. I used them in demonstrations. The first transparency projected on a blackboard was maybe 4+4= then I'd put another transparent paper with the number 8 in just the right place to complete the equation.
This is so lovely! I wish you were giving tutorials for these, I'd love to know how to make something like this. I got PhotoShop for my 65th Birthday last year, but the honest truth is that it scares me to death! It keep referring to layers! "You can't do that with this kind of layer - or that kind of layer", "You must flatten the layers, first," blah, blah, so many rules, it scares me. How long did it take you to learn this mysterious program?
ReplyDeleteI had a friend who's husband lost his job. To make money she sold cards and did fancy things to your photos for you. I inquired how she did it and she told me about Photoshop Elements. Then she said it was way too hard for anyone to learn. I showed my sister-in-law the cards and she asked how they were done. I repeated the story and she was very perturbed that someone said something was too hard for her to learn. So she purchased the program and muscled her way through until she was quite good. I asked her to teach me. My timing was just right because she, with her new Photoshop skills, became a really great photographer, wedding announcement lady and she now charges and would have no time to teach me. And I just acquired a program to capture screen video so I am going to make a ton of tutorials and give away all my secrets on how I make everything. For free. Because it's me ;)
ReplyDeleteAs far as layers go: It's easiest to think of layers in Photoshop as sheets of clear transparency papers. One has something on it, and if you stack another clear sheet on top you can make a different image. So on my background here I had a sheet with a rubber duck, but the rest of the paper was transparent. It was sitting on top of a sheet with with a flower image, and that on top of a sheet with plaid paper and so on. I flattened it to smash it all together into a flat photograph instead of umpteen layers. I don't know how much experience you have with transparency papers but that's how I had to wrap my head around it when I started. I used them in demonstrations. The first transparency projected on a blackboard was maybe 4+4= then I'd put another transparent paper with the number 8 in just the right place to complete the equation.
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