I just use Adobe ...

I am used to it, it's easy and it does what I need

I don't do fancy stuff though

I just really wanted to say Hi




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Mach said:

Hey Mach!

Thanks for being so friendly and ultimately unhelpful.

Photoshop is by far the best.

Though I'm really no expert.

I just joined this thread to dote on you.

Imago said:

Mach said:

Fauxie's kiss, it's like vanilla. Sure, you say it's plain, I hope he puts some on everything that goes in my mouth.

Mach said:

Fauxie is like vanilla. Sure, you say it's plane, you put it in everything that goes in your mouth.

Well, I can see I'm going to get no useful help whatsoever so I may as well make the most of Imago's horrible doting and suffocating cloying affections.

So like... something gay and sexy

Fauxie said:

I have photoshop CS2 and was not able to work with RAW files for some reason.
I take it you're using a Canon camera of some type?


Photoshop supports the most file types and works flawlessly with lossless compression---it can even smartly compress the file to look it's best.

Imago said:

Well, I'm planning to get a Nikon D80 in the next few months. At the moment I have an Olympus SP500uz (6MP). It's alright, but horribly slow at everything and has no image stabilization so requires the steadiest hand for nearly every pic.

I think I read there's a plug-in to be able to use RAW? I don't intend to buy any software, apart from maybe copied photo editing software packages from Phanthip. I was rather hoping to be able to download everything I need. Do jpegs lose much quality in Photoshop when you work with them? Is there a lossless jpeg format at all? I want to use Neat Image as it's the best noise filter I've ever used, but I'm keen to cut down on how many steps I take between getting the pics from my camera to the final edited photo, which would have to be in jpeg format ultimately.

Thanks again for the Smiths t-shirt. A spaced-out American hippy in Penang saw me wearing it and just out of the blue started talking to me about them, asking me if they were still going.

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Fauxie said:

Photoshop can minimum jpeg dataloss (Every time you do a "Save as" it will ask you how large you want the jpeg file--the quality you want it).

But jpeg always loses data. Photoshop does a stunning job at minimizing that though. And for small photos (8x10 or smaller) most folks can't tell the difference.

Imago said:

Cool. Well that'd certainly be better than how I'm doing things now. Thing is, all I want are some basic editing functions and the cloning tool. Every time I've opened up photoshop in the past I've just become completely lost. It's quite daunting. Damn this digital photography. This is like music production all over again. Gimme the 02R desk and I'm fine, but gimme Cubase and I'm fucked.

Fauxie said:

I use photoshop with my D50, but I shot some RAW files, and for the life of me can't get the raw camera plug-in to recognise the files
I managed to get it working for retina over the phone, but for myself NFI

ZombieKitten said:

My download of Photoshop CS2 is almost complete and I've downloaded that RAW plug-in from the Adobe site. I wonder if it'll work for me. My crappy camera (and you know since your husband has it) is listed there as compatible.

I love your pics.

Fauxie said:

ooh give me the link!

thank you!!!

ZombieKitten said:

http://www.adobe.com/prod...raraw.html

Do you like your D50? Would you recommend Nikon? I'm considering the D80 when it comes down in price just a little.

Fauxie said:

ooh hope this works for me!

yes I love it
I wish it had more megapixels, but it will do just fine I think

ZombieKitten said:

megapixels are (somewhat) overrated though. I know your 6MP camera takes better pics than this also 6MP Olympus crap I have, so imagine my frustration. At least you have a good camera capable of taking good photographs.

The D80 is 10MP, which should see me right for a while. 8 or 10 really makes little difference though.

Fauxie said:

I could use the camera as part of my work, but I am limited how large they can be printed.

and yes, my camera does shit all over yours, and I say that from experience, and I am sorry I tried very hard to take good photos with the Olympus, and it was just too slow.

ZombieKitten said:

Yeah! Let's rag on my camera! Notice how it's got no image stabilisation so you have to be able to stop breathing to get an in focus picture? And yes it's so fucking pedestrian in every way. A RAW image takes about 7 or 8 seconds to process, almost the same just to look at when scrolling through pics on the camera, and just turning the thing on takes a good few seconds, not to mention how poor it is of taking pictures of any even thinking about moving.

Ooh, the download has finished. I'm off to see if I can get it working (yeah yeah, working crack file, they all say that ) and then try to get the RAW plug-in working. Wish me luck!

Fauxie said:

like of kids
I tried to take about 10 pics of the kids and gave up.


ALTHOUGH, I did take all the pics for this with that camera:

I like those. Yeah, it's possible. I have a few successes by wringing what I can out of it, but overall I find it pretty amateurish and it just doesn't make me feel like I'm going to get anything really good.

Fauxie said:

I had to photoshop it a lot though to make it look like a proper photo