Photoshop Tutorial

[ohenry]

I did a quick tutorial on how to straighten a horizon using Photoshop. It is available here in pdf format if anyone is interested. Feedback would be appreciated.


Also available is a tutorial on using layer masks

[Kevin Barrett]

Originally Posted by ohenry

I did a quick tutorial on how to straighten a horizon using Photoshop. It is available here in pdf format if anyone is interested. Feedback would be appreciated.


Also available is a tutorial on using layer masks

Carl, thanks for the work you've put into this tutorial. I'm grateful that I'm not the only one that has difficulty getting horizons straight. Your tutorial was very nicely done. Can we expect more?

[dc2]

A good tutorial
Nice job Carl

[ohenry]

Originally Posted by Kevin Barrett

Carl, thanks for the work you've put into this tutorial. I'm grateful that I'm not the only one that has difficulty getting horizons straight. Your tutorial was very nicely done. Can we expect more?

I am planning on doing further tutorials. I've started doing some for some other folks and will gladly share them here if there is an audience for them! I'm hoping to do some shorter, specific tutorials rather than long, involved ones. I'm open to suggestions that might make for a good tutorial, as well.

[dc2]

I'm open to suggestions that might make for a good tutorial, as well.
A good but very hard one would be from raw process to print .
I know your good on this . Still difficult though ,well for me

[ohenry]

Originally Posted by dc2

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A good but very hard one would be from raw process to print .
I know your good on this . Still difficult though ,well for me

I do have one that I did that covers some of what you suggested. This one deals with making some basic tonal adjustments. It was written for someone very new to Photoshop. It doesn't include RAW conversion, but it does reveal some of my workflow past the basic tonal adjustments.

These are the 3 that I've done so far. I would like to do more as it really cements my own understanding when I put it down on paper (so to speak). I've also received some feedback from others telliing me another (and sometimes, better) way to do the same thing, so I learn just as much by doing them

[dc2]

Thanks Carl .
At the moment I am getting unknown error when I try to open this , I will try agian later

[ohenry]

I think I fixed the link...try again

[dc2]

Thanks it works
I will save it

[RobAmy]

Carl excellent work on all and very informative Thanks for you time on these

[ohenry]

Thanks a lot, Rob.

[cuggie]

Greetings, I am new here and trying to learn to use PhtoShop. I find that by trying all the tutorails I find I begin to catch on to how this all works. Thank you for your helpful tutorial and improving the skills of new people like me.
Sharing knowledge is such a great thing.
Thanks Again
Cuggie

[Michele]

Thanks Carl.. Very well done and beneficial... Michele

[JP]

Thanks for your tutorial Carl! Very helpful to newbie like myself.

May Iask you a question on file saving with PS CS2? After working on a picture in PS CS2, when I save it on a JPEG format, it's saved but the jpeg is not recognized, and I cannot open the file with any program... The only successful way to save pics on my system, is to use the menu "save for web". Any idea? I'm close to unistall CS2 and go back to CS where I didn't have any problem.
Thanks for help.

[ohenry]

That sounds very odd. I assume that when you select "save as", that you're highlighting the jpeg format then typing in a file name? You could manually type in the .jpg suffix in addition to selecting the correct format. I don't know. I don't experience the problem that you describe.

Glad you found the tutorial beneficial.

There's no way that I'd go back to CS after working with CS2...I use too many of the newer features and would miss them.

[carsj]

Hi Carl your Tutorials are excellent, I found them to be of great assistance in working with Photoshop. May I ask you if you know of a way I can color code Actions, and also Menu items that I use a lot. Makes it much easier to find them each time. I know it can be done in CS2 but cant figure out how to do it on CS which is the version I currently use. Thanks in advance for any help on this matter.

[ohenry]

I don't have CS loaded any more, so I'm not real sure. I seem to recall that you can color code your actions in CS and should be similar to how it's done in CS2. In CS2, the color codes are only available when you have the actions in button mode, I believe. I'm not sure about menu items.

[JP]

Ohenry, thanks for your help. I reloaded CS2, but the problem stays as before. I then followed your advise, and put ".jpeg" after the file name, and it works! I can live with that!

Cheers

[ohenry]

Glad to hear that works...but you really shouldn't have to do that. Something is amiss.

[Lorek]

Thank you very much for sharing! I am going to try you mask tutorial today or tomorrow! I don't know anything about mask but after a quick look at your document it seams very useful!