https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:25:38 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-anyone-here-a-professional-photoshopper-ie-can-manipulate-photographs#post-335318 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:42:24 +0000 Mrs. Pen 335318@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I do it as a hobby. I taught myself, have an SLR and learned some photography basics, my SIL is a professional photographer though and she has taught me a few things.</p> <p>Photoshop REALLY helps I think- Photoshop actions are my friend!! </p> <p>It has been a few years of accumulating knowledge, however I never tried to learn a lot in a short amount of time. </p> <p>Once you get some basic manual settings on the camera established it just takes some practice. I found this blog post particularly helpful: <a href="http://www.kevinandamanda.com/whatsnew/tutorials/photography-tutorial-a-quick-guide-to-understanding-your-digital-slr-camera.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.kevinandamanda.com/whatsnew/tutorials/photography-tutorial-a-quick-guide-to-understanding-your-digital-slr-camera.html</a></p> <p>As long as you can take a decent picture - I think knowing photoshop is what makes the photo.</p> <p>I've done a few weddings and would post those photos but I don't have them on this computer.</p> <p>Here is a before and after of some photos I've done:</p> <p>[attach=1597/12/mbqp6p.600x401.DSC_0173-2.JPG]</p> <p>[attach=1597/12/mbqp6s.600x401.DSC_0173.jpg] </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-anyone-here-a-professional-photoshopper-ie-can-manipulate-photographs#post-335317 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:41:49 +0000 photojane 335317@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>like @twodoghouse said, i think it depends on what you want to do to the pictures. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-anyone-here-a-professional-photoshopper-ie-can-manipulate-photographs#post-335303 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:36:55 +0000 hellobeeboston 335303@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm a graphic designer... I use photoshop quite often and I swear I learn something new in that program weekly, and I've been using it for about 12 years!</p> <p>Depends on what you want to do, but you could take an adult Ed class and learn the basics --- or do online tutorials to learn... I think Linda.com does online photoshop classes too.</p> <p>It's definitely learnable, and the more you use it, the easier it gets! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-anyone-here-a-professional-photoshopper-ie-can-manipulate-photographs#post-335293 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:30:28 +0000 MrsCastro 335293@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Photoshop Elements is a great way to learn...you can download a free trial for 30 days...i love it!!! i use that and lightroom to edit photos... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-anyone-here-a-professional-photoshopper-ie-can-manipulate-photographs#post-335283 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:26:13 +0000 mrs. wagon 335283@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm goodadit. Once you learn clone stamp tool, it's all over... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-anyone-here-a-professional-photoshopper-ie-can-manipulate-photographs#post-335107 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:08:40 +0000 Mrs. Tricycle 335107@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I took this online class: <a href="http://www.eclasses.org/G301/" rel="nofollow">http://www.eclasses.org/G301/</a>. It was really helpful, and at $220, noT too expensive. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-anyone-here-a-professional-photoshopper-ie-can-manipulate-photographs#post-334864 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 09:27:44 +0000 MediaNaranja 334864@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@twodoghouse: I second looking at local universities to see if they have classes. The university in my town does similar "bootcamp" style classes for photoshop, illustrator, excel, and other popular computer software packages. They are free for students, and cost a minimal amount (like $50 or less) for non-students. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-anyone-here-a-professional-photoshopper-ie-can-manipulate-photographs#post-334851 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 09:23:27 +0000 Rock n Roll 334851@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My husband is awesome! He learned in a college class. One of his projects was removing all the tattoos/piercings from a Suicide Girl. </p> <p>I, however, have no idea what I'm doing. It takes me forever just to do basic stuff. But I think if I had some free time and a book it wouldn't be hard to pick up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-anyone-here-a-professional-photoshopper-ie-can-manipulate-photographs#post-334761 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 08:29:43 +0000 twodoghouse 334761@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm a graphic designer, but I'm about 94% self-taught. Originally at least. I mostly work in InDesign and Illustrator, though I use Photoshop every day for touching up photos, some web design, etc. I'm wondering what you mean by manipulating photos? Do you mean, you want to touch up photos, remove blemishes in skin/the background, edit in textures? Or do you mean, you have photographs of say, Charlie and Olive separate, and you'd like to blend them together so they're in the same photo? (This is how I hear a lot of people use "photo manipulations.") Or something else altogether? If you're looking to do basic photo touch ups, I definitely think you can teach yourself (assuming you have an eye for what looks "normal"). But if you're looking to do pretty complicated tasks, you may want to take a class. I have found Photoshop easy to teach myself. However, sometimes when I was figuring it out on my own, I didn't use the simplest/easiest/most accurate way of doing it. </p> <p>You may want to see if you can go to a couple seminars. The biggest univserity in my state has eight hour "boot camps" for Adobe programs. They are hands on (which I find necessary, but not everyone does) and some focus on very specific tasks and others are more broad. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-anyone-here-a-professional-photoshopper-ie-can-manipulate-photographs#post-334737 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 08:19:50 +0000 ladyfingers 334737@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wouldn't call myself professional, but my skills are passable. I've been teaching myself through the tutorials at Lynda.com. If you want access to the exercise files to follow along, it's $37.50/year but I think it's worth it because I'm trying to learn a lot more graphic design and web design and they have tutorials on pretty much everything.</p> <p>It's not hard, just takes a lot of practice to learn the program. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-anyone-here-a-professional-photoshopper-ie-can-manipulate-photographs#post-334736 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 08:19:45 +0000 blackbird 334736@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm very proficient in photoshop, but I took a course in high school to learn it. I've kept up with it for the past 10 years, so a lot of things I've just picked up. It really depends what you want to do and how complicated it is. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-anyone-here-a-professional-photoshopper-ie-can-manipulate-photographs#post-334711 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 08:09:19 +0000 mrbee 334711@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm wondering how hard it is to learn these skills... I have some projects coming up that require me to Photoshop photographs. </p>