UW Photoshop

[Fastmarc]

Ditto to Alcina.
Well worth the money.

 

[drbill]

Hmmm... I'm going to have to look into this for the stills I extract from my UW video. I love Photoshop, but only have versions 3.0 thru 6.0.

 

[av8er23]

have you guys ever looked at this book?

NEW Adobe Photoshop for Underwater Photographers - eBay (item 150277782963 end time Aug-07-08 15:20:15 PDT)

 

[JillGadget]

I just received UW photoshop DVD and it is INCREDIBLE! I've only just begun the basics watching/listening to how to use the bridge and organise. I feel like I am in a classroom. It only took 2 days to get the DVD in the mail. I can't put it down. I just waiting for my next dive trip to have some fresh images to play with. (BTW that is in Nov w/Stuart Cove - Just love them)

av8er23, yes I have that book, and it is nice; however, I'm an idiot and need my hand held and a visual. I don't do well following the book, I do use it as a reference though.

I can't say enough. Well, back to playin!!
Thanks for all your input and coaxing to purchase!
Jill

 

[Don Wray]

So is Photoshop Elements 6 o.k. for the money? I haven't done much with photoshop in YEARS and thought it would be o.k just to adjust my photos some. If not, I need to cancel the order and regroup.

 

[MauiScubaSteve]

I use PE 4 for all my photos. I am not using actions or curves. When importing raw images with Bridge, I make changes to temp, tint, shadows, brightness and sharpness. On shallow and many strobe images the auto functions are close enough for hasty processing, but usually the brights get a little blown out. If auto does not work I try the levels eyedroppers on white or black parts; haven't used grey on tanks but have been meaning to try. If I can't make the right progress that way I use the black, grey and sometimes the white sliders and then move to color variations; on a rare occasion hue/saturation. Then shadows/highlights, resize, sharpen and save. If you are going to crop, it is best to do that right after raw conversion (import); some of the various changes are affected by what it's working with.

This takes some time, but I find that each image is different, so using the same adjustments (action) on all does not float my boat. I hope to eventually have ~9 actions that will cover things in general, but I am somewhat of a procrastinator; said that 3 years ago.

Nearly all my gallery images were processed that way. I sold many prints processed similarly with Elements 2. I have PS 7 and CS 2 on older/slower computers, but full PS is cumbersome IMHO. Most underwater photographers are wasting money by buying full PS(CS), again IMHO.

 

[JCAT]

I have PS-7 and have been searching for a raw plug-in for it. I use picasa2 now, but would like to go back to PS-7. Any ideas? or is upgrading PS the only way?

 

[av8er23]

i found quite a bit of tip videos on youtube.. have you guys ever checked it out for photoshop tips? i was wondering what was some of the best users (posters).

 

[DamselDoc]

I have PS-7 and have been searching for a raw plug-in for it. I use picasa2 now, but would like to go back to PS-7. Any ideas? or is upgrading PS the only way?

I downloaded a plug-in that allowed me to open raw files in PS7 (I think I got it from the olympus website). However, I don't use it. For me the problem is that I lose the layers that you get with tiff files. The result is that I have trouble using my favorite action that auto adjusts for underwater photos and I can not create layers. So I am really limited in what I can do. Instead, I open the files in Camedia and convert them to a tiff format. Then I open them in PS.

If anyone has a better way (as this one is very tedious), I would love to know...

Damsel Doc