Dick Smith wrote:Do you shoot as Jpg or RAW?
For my part: Both.
If I’m just “messing around” with nothing serious then JPEG. However, if there is any chance it might be something worthwhile then RAW. My main aim in getting this dSLR was to blot it to my telescope and find out just how hard astrophotography really is. I now have most of the adapters to bolt it on. For non-solar system objects then RAW is essential as the stacking software apparently makes a complete mess with JPEGs.
I'm not a techy person at all and just can't work out how to use Elements!
I want to unlock some layers from some pics and then transport them into another pic, basically to pretend two people who were absent were really there for a group photo.
Has anybody any idea how I might do this!
Deimos wrote: tenniswitch wrote: As to becoming tied to Photoshop for future editing, that's true only if you're saving in a Photoshop proprietary format. You should not have a problem if you save your photos in .TIFF or .jpeg formats. As I understand it Photoshop Lightroom has a “system” it uses when you make changes to a picture. It does not modify the picture file itself but rather stores the changes you make as a sequence of operations – and these changes are stored in its own proprietary database. Once you have made changes, if you reload the picture file at some point in the future the original image is loaded then the changes you made are fetched from the database and re-applied. Thus, stop using Adobe Lightroom and you can get at your original file but not the work you put into improving them. As I understand it this applies to both Adobe proprietary formats, RAW images and standards formatted images (i.e. everything. I have read that this is a new feature in Lightroom.<!--[endif]--> Not arguing with you. I don't know anything about Lightroom. However, I am repeating what I have read in various reviews and publicity here as I do not have the package myself – I’m at the stage of considering which one to get. Ian
tenniswitch wrote: As to becoming tied to Photoshop for future editing, that's true only if you're saving in a Photoshop proprietary format. You should not have a problem if you save your photos in .TIFF or .jpeg formats.
As to becoming tied to Photoshop for future editing, that's true only if you're saving in a Photoshop proprietary format. You should not have a problem if you save your photos in .TIFF or .jpeg formats.
As I understand it Photoshop Lightroom has a “system” it uses when you make changes to a picture. It does not modify the picture file itself but rather stores the changes you make as a sequence of operations – and these changes are stored in its own proprietary database. Once you have made changes, if you reload the picture file at some point in the future the original image is loaded then the changes you made are fetched from the database and re-applied. Thus, stop using Adobe Lightroom and you can get at your original file but not the work you put into improving them. As I understand it this applies to both Adobe proprietary formats, RAW images and standards formatted images (i.e. everything. I have read that this is a new feature in Lightroom.<!--[endif]-->
Not arguing with you. I don't know anything about Lightroom.
However, I am repeating what I have read in various reviews and publicity here as I do not have the package myself – I’m at the stage of considering which one to get.
Ian
Tony F Dordogne wrote: I'm not a techy person at all and just can't work out how to use Elements!I want to unlock some layers from some pics and then transport them into another pic, basically to pretend two people who were absent were really there for a group photo.Has anybody any idea how I might do this!
In the full version of Photoshop you can open another picture on the desktop, make sure you can see both and drag the layer from one to the other.
If that doesn't work can you save the layer as a picture and then drag it in?
I'm away now until after Easter, but if none of this works perhaps I can think of something else
regardsGeorge
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