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# Okay here goes =X
Up 'til now I've been using PSP for everything, but as of this afternoon I have been blessed and am now proud owner of a copy of PS7 :)

I've just been playing around with some of the things it does before attempting anything funny/useful/fluffy so here is the output of my 1st ever attempt at using the program.


Hardly FP material, but hey, were all here to learn. Is there any cool funky features I'm likely to not have spotted yet myself? Or is it a case of press things and see what happens (as with most things in my experience)
(--=| Daz |=-- has forgotten something, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 20:59, archived)
# press things, stand back, approach monitor once safe again
(I helped save b3ta! _null_, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 20:59, archived)
# seconded
(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Kitteny Berk almost certainly drunk, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 21:00, archived)
# Yep, that's pretty much how I do it as well!
:-)
(I helped save b3ta! King Ralph is drunk, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 21:04, archived)
# it provides pleasing results, too
little techniques are often very good for styling photos.

i find that if an image looks too rough, flatten it, add 3% monochrome noise, and gaussian blur it by a fraction of a pixel. gives a nice aged look.


i still have no fucking clue what "variations" does yet.
(I helped save b3ta! _null_, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 21:05, archived)
# Ooo
will have to try that at some point!
(I helped save b3ta! King Ralph is drunk, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 21:07, archived)
# example:


this instance, it looks like a magazine clipping. try it and see.
(I helped save b3ta! _null_, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 21:10, archived)
# Ooo
nice!
(I helped save b3ta! King Ralph is drunk, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 21:13, archived)
# Just tried it
on my last piccy. It's good that is. Hides a multitude of sins.
(I helped save b3ta! Maffydoo, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 21:29, archived)
# If you press Shift-F1 it activates the orgasmatron.
.
(Dr Wadd, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 21:00, archived)
# *presses shift-F1*
Hey, he lied to us through song!

/Simpsons
(I helped save b3ta! King Ralph is drunk, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 21:01, archived)
# I hate very ape I see,
from Chimpan-A to Chimpan-Z
(Dr Wadd, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 21:03, archived)
# what does it actually do? i don't trust you
(I helped save b3ta! Naive Amoeba Bored Cig, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 21:02, archived)
# Just keep playing around
that's how I learned. And I still don't know what half the buttons do.
(I helped save b3ta! wayward., Wed 19 Nov 2003, 21:01, archived)
#
would that cost me money?
(STINK_BOMB, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 21:01, archived)
# yes
lots
(I helped save b3ta! viperrr mostly comes out at night, mostly, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 21:02, archived)
# of course not!
*cough*kazaa*cough*
(I helped save b3ta! Naive Amoeba Bored Cig, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 21:03, archived)
# would you like
a strepsil for that?
(I helped save b3ta! viperrr mostly comes out at night, mostly, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 21:05, archived)
# go for the gimp
it's free

www.gimp.org
(The Scone from U.N.C.L.E., Wed 19 Nov 2003, 21:06, archived)
# speaking of pshop software,
has anyone here ever tried Arcsoft's PhotostudioX for Mac?
(I helped save b3ta! b2 I'm not really here..., Wed 19 Nov 2003, 21:51, archived)
# ooh! very nice!
a subtle quo there!


use the heal tool (the plaster) to morph heads together, you can grapht skin from one animal to another which looks damn cool
(I helped save b3ta! Naive Amoeba Bored Cig, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 21:01, archived)
# one thing thats bugging me
If I make a selection in 1 image and copy it to clipboard. Then go to another image and hit paste, it pastes the clipboard onto the middle of the second image and just dumps it in the middle. In PSP I'm used to it being selected when I pasted it in. Here I seem to have to re-select it manually if I wanna shift it around.

Is there a proper way of doing this? Or is that for kids and sissy's?
(--=| Daz |=-- has forgotten something, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 21:07, archived)
# I don't think it does
that pisses me off as well!
(I helped save b3ta! King Ralph is drunk, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 21:10, archived)
# hold control
and move it around using the mouse

and if you hold control and click the layer it's pasted into on the layers toolbar it'll select it automagically
(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Kitteny Berk almost certainly drunk, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 21:10, archived)
# Nah,
selection is for kids!

Use the area select tool and 'align layer to selection'! The MAN's way!

[edit: I actually used to do it this way until I found the select tool, silly me]
(I helped save b3ta! so long and thanks for all the fish, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 21:11, archived)