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posted by A manganite
Posted on Saturday September 22, 2007 at 10:12. 552 visits. ( permalink )
I like to work with Photoshop on my pictures, but I'm a real amateur, who is looking around for inspiration and desperately tries to guess how to create a certain effect. Cause I think it's difficult to find literature of how to get certain effects. Things like orton effect, vintage look or get a lomo look and feel for your pictures. Of course one can use google, but mostly you find nothing really helpful.

But I think we have some real experts on digital manipulation here on ipernity and maybe some of them could share some tricks with us.

So please post how do the amazing things you show us on your photostreams!

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melpomene says:
i'm curious about how others do things too. i'm self taught and most of what i do i either figured out or i read a tutorial then did it my own way... a lot of trial and error.
i'm open to answering any questions about anything i've done and i'm looking forward to seeing what others do.
Posted 2 years ago. ( permalink )
melpomene says:
i had to go look up "orton effect"... i had forgotten what that was. i think the way i figured out how to do all the effects you mentioned above was just doing searches and then reading several tutorials on each and putting all the information together and doing it my way.
Posted 2 years ago. ( permalink )
A manganite replies:
Yes, I'm doing it the same way, but it's not the easiest way. Isn't there any literature or other source putting all that together?
Posted 2 years ago. ( permalink )
melpomene replies:
well, photoshop for dummies is one that kind of gives an overview of a lot of different things all in one book. the person that put the book together is certainly not a fantastic photographer and doesn't do the most amazing things with the tools but you can get used copies fairly cheap and it does have some useful info.

i'm not sure if there is an easy way... but maybe someone here will post one!
Posted 2 years ago. ( permalink )
F100R pro says:
Hey :-)

My weapon of choice: Adobe Lightroom! (The perfect addition to Photoshop)
Before I'm working with Lightroom... It was Apple's Aperture. It's the same concept, but it needs a lot of processor speed and RAM.

Lightroom is really great! Easy to use... and you have unlimited playground to make a lot of effects. The best part of it: Your modifications are virtuell and every time adjustable. No more copies and copies and copies of images :-)
Take a look to this group: www.ipernity.com/group/adobelightroom

If you're interested to get closer to "presets"... let me know :-)

Roland

LightroomDesktop
Posted 2 years ago. ( permalink )
A manganite says:
Yes, Lightroom is my tool, too. It's very easy to learn, but still powerful.

I will have a look at the Lightroom group, thanks for the link :)
Posted 2 years ago. ( permalink )
tschnitzlein says:
I use Photoshop and a number of other, more specialized tools.

Explaining all manipulations in processed images is somewhat cumbersome, as I often experiment to obtain effects that are not "standardized". So, I'm not sure if publishing "how-to" tutorials meets the need. It really takes a fair amount of basic understanding of fundamental image processing functions to be creative with them and arrive at solutions that both are creative and unique.

Experiment! Play! - and be open if someone asks you to explain how he/she did it.

I will do my best to be that way.
Posted 2 years ago. ( permalink )

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