March 2011 Photo Contest - Photoshop

icvanstra · Post by **icvanstra** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 10:34 pm

This months theme is: Photoshop

You don't have to use Photoshop itself ... any photo editing software will do. But, the idea is to have some fun with your photo editing software. Be creative and get those submissions in!!

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The usual rules:
1) submit one photo
2) you must have the rights to the photo
3) put the dog's name in your post please

cake73 · Post by **cake73** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 5:41 pm

Kaya

leih merigian · Post by **leih merigian** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 6:47 pm

Nice!

cake73 · Post by **cake73** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 7:53 pm

Thanks!

Post by **Dutchringgirl** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 1:44 am

Sadie

FG167 · Post by **FG167** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 7:15 am

Madix

leih merigian · Post by **leih merigian** » Mon Mar 07, 2011 5:25 pm

Those are both very cool!

Marjolein · Post by **Marjolein** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 10:51 am

vneerland · Post by **vneerland** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 3:34 pm

Cool, all of them!

Christie M · Post by **Christie M** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 6:09 pm

I am SO excited by this contest!!! I just learned that Matt ordered a new camera for me!!! YAY!! Its a freaking AWESOME canon with all of the bells and whistles. I can't wait to start contributing (my cell phone pics just aren't up to snuff

. Now I just need some great software!

Post by **Dutchringgirl** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 6:25 pm

Congratulations on your new camera!, i have one and i just love it!!! you will too.

FG167 · Post by **FG167** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 6:34 pm

Christie M wrote:I am SO excited by this contest!!! I just learned that Matt ordered a new camera for me!!! YAY!! Its a freaking AWESOME canon with all of the bells and whistles. I can't wait to start contributing (my cell phone pics just aren't up to snuff . Now I just need some great software!

Ooooo what Canon did you get?! As far as software, I use PhotoShop and Lightroom and I find Lightroom to be MUCH MUCH more user friendly and fun to use

icvanstra · Post by **icvanstra** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 1:26 pm

Ditto on the lightroom. It is a great way to keep track of the photo's.

There is a bunch of software out there to use for editing your photo's. Photoshop is very good and the Photoshop Elements (i.e. 'light') will do much of what Photoshop does for less money.

icvanstra · Post by **icvanstra** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 1:32 pm

I had a PM asking me more info and I thought maybe more people would want to know as well...

So...

Adobe Lightroom is an application that stores/tracks your photo's. You can enter keywords for the photos, search for them, sort them, etc. It has some very basic editing features in it. Here is some more info and here is Adobe's page for it.

Adobe Photoshop is probably the premiere product on the market for photo editing and is very rich with features. ...and has a pricetag that's pretty high. Photoshop Elements is less expensive and has most of the features that the average home user would want. So, Photoshop is more for professionals and Photoshop Elements would be probably for hobbyist/enthusiast's...although I know some non-professionals that wouldn't use anything but full Photoshop.

There are other applications out there that are a lot less expensive that will let you do the basic editing of photos ... sometimes free with the camera. They may have some of the Artsy utilities as well.

What are other people using?

leih merigian · Post by **leih merigian** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 1:58 am

I don't have any real editing software, but I did think to invert the colors of a BW photo...not bad, iff'n I do say so myself

Christie M · Post by **Christie M** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 2:07 am

leih merigian wrote:I don't have any real editing software, but I did think to invert the colors of a BW photo...not bad, iff'n I do say so myself

That's pretty awesome! I would call her a cattle dog in that one

Don't tell Ash.

cake73 · Post by **cake73** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 3:26 am

leih merigian wrote:

OMG! It's THAT stare! It's magnified like at least 100-fold in B&W! I sort of think of it as "The Dutchie Mind Trick"

:dslook:

...it's like I can feel her trying to will me to do something, but I've never been able to figure out exactly what...water, food, toy, outside? WHAT?!?!?!

I have only ever used Adobe Photoshop.

Sugars Mom · Post by **Sugars Mom** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 7:07 am

Sugar and Kristofer

I can only do black and white too...

Post by **Dutchringgirl** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 1:27 pm

Sue --- That is the best picture I have ever seen!!!

leih merigian · Post by **leih merigian** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 3:57 pm

the cute thing is you can tell the tail is wagging in the picture<G>

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