Basic Photo Editing

[TheMasses]

I am thinking of ordering a Photoshop. Do any of you have it?

I use Photoshop and love it. There is a lot of support available for it from the Adobe web site as well as some good podcasts. That's how I learned to use it. I'm no master but I get along pretty well. So if you have any questions let me know.

[Custom_Hobby]

Thank you, I appreciate that.

[gi6ers]

I tend to use GIMP alongside photoshop. There are some things that I find slicker with GIMP and vice versa.

I would recommend you get used to GIMP first as most of the commands are similar.

[Bodhi]

I just got me a copy of Paint shop pro, along with some animation software called "Animation shop" which was the program I really was after. Surely Paint shop can be used for some photo editing as well? Unfortunately I haven't got a book. I've just got it to install on my computer and try to learn it best I can. It's a school edition so I'll be using the animation program in my art lessons with the kids. So far I've managed to make a 3 second animation with an eight hour downloading time  :icon_w00t:
Now I've just got to learn how to downsize those pictures - the animation is five times bigger than my screen  :icon_ermm:

[gi6ers]

Yup, animation is a whole new kettle of fish, I've got as far as animated GIFs at the moment.

Incidentally there is an animation package for GIMP and it's also freeware, more details here:

http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Advanced_Animations/

or

http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Simple_Animations/

or for the easy GIF tutorial:

http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/writing/help/graphics/gimp/animation.shtml