The "woman thing" I was referring to was Marilyn's "sense of humor". That's all. S. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "R V" <muunstruk@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Why? > Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:06:27 -0500 > > > Since this might be a "woman thing" I have to add my non-professional > 2 cents worth strictly from a woman's point of view. > I look at a raw photo as the negative I would see in a lab > environment, and Photoshop is my very own desktop lab. In this > virtual lab you have the choice of doing it like Costco or Walmart and > run every image through all the "auto" processing that is available or > you can let your creativity free reign and tweak, dodge and burn to > your artist's heart's content. > Buy yourself a good Photoshop book to learn the basics, and look > around the web for the thousands of free tutorials offered there. > That's where the fun of digital photography really lies. You are > cheating yourself if you don't use Photoshop to its fullest potential. > Strangely I remember dreaming of doing just that, when I looked at the > first images I ever captured as a child with my little Agfa camera, > when I was 6 years old, thinking this would be a great shot if I could > crop it a little here, darken it a little there and blur this ugly > background. Well, 40 years later technology finally caught up with > this dream. > Try it out - you'll be amazed how much better your already fine shots will be. > So here it is - a woman's point of view. > Have a wonderful spring weekend all! > Renate > > On 3/31/06, Shyrell Melara <shyrellmelara@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Good question. I'm looking forward to this answer, too. And don't > > worry, Marilyn, I get your humor. Must be a woman thing. >:( > > Oooops, I meant... ;-) > > -- _______________________________________________ Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10
