Photography & Photoshop

[MolsonBoy]

How many people are using Photoshop? I have been using it since 1998 with my racing images. I have for the past 4 years created a print to sell to raise money for charity (the Greg Moore Foundation). How many people are creating artwork? I would like to hear your thoughts about creating motorsports are using programs like photoshop.

The image below is one I am working for this years charity project.

[bella]

i use photoshop elements (too tight to get the full version) to make pictures i've taken into desktop pictures etc. i mostly use brushes to edit, and tend not to do anything except play around. i prefer my pictures unadulterated as such.

[Andrew Kitson]

Photoshop is a great programme. I've been using it for years - the new version 7.0 is brilliant.
Virtually every magazine, newspaper or brochure you see is put together with Adobe Photoshop and it's sister programme Adobe Illustrator with the layout done in Quark Express. Best results are on a Mac, more graphics friendly than a PC - Photoshop was built for it.
Trouble is, there are so many features and elements in photoshop and many different ways of acheiving the same result, you have to use it day in day out to learn them all.

[Jay]

Just got ahold of a copy...so I'm learning. So far I've just use the basic photo retouching to make images look clearer or more blury. Maybe I'll be able to do something useful with it by the summer....like make incriminating photes .

[Kelvin]

I use photoshop 6, mainly to clean up poor scans. But as photographer with darkroom skills, I treat the software as an extention of the darkroom to alter certain aspects of the oringinal ie. brightness, contrast, cropping, color balance.

Kelvin.

[bella]

i guess i'm wierd and a perfectionist - i bin a shot if it's not perfect straight away. colour has to be good when it comes off my microdrive or it's not worth bothering with. can't be doing with changing and cropping every damn shot...