[Jewelry making - Article 00029] - Re: [Orchid] Photoshop for jewelers

[Melissa Veres]

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    You might try checking in with your local community college for some
    online courses. I tried working with tutorials and the Photoshop
    manuel, step by step, with much frustration and little to show for
    it. I finally took an online course since even the vocabulary, for
    photographers and graphic artists, was confusing to me. it was
    called Photoshop Basics, and started with defining things like
    layers, and levels and filters, and how to use them. It explained
    image size, and how rescaling the image in various ways affects how
    info is retained. The lessons were available for downloading twice a
    week, for 5 or 6 weeks ( total 10 or 12 lessons) and you had two
    weeks to email your course work back to get credit for it. You could
    email the instructor at any time, and she was very good as responding
    in a timely manner. Although it is a commitment of time, and was
    based on taking the course during specific intervals, I was able to
    work on it when it suited me. The cost was very reasonable, somewhere
    less than $100, I think., and I have compiled a notebook for
    reference. 

    While I don't use Photoshop often enough to be really proficient,
    and my newer photoshop c2 has lots of new features my older version
    didn't have, I have some sense of what I am doing, and the online
    tutorials are helpful. I did have Photoshop 5 installed when I got my
    Dad's old imac, so I have just purchased a couple of updates for full
    Photoshop. It's a seriously large and complicated bit of software,
    and you could get creatively addicted to it's possibilities, so I
    can't say if you need to move up from photoshop elements. 

Melissa Veres, engraver
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