Artist, thanks for stating & clearing what this group actually is and how it works. Its important for all us to know the environment and interact with eachother better.
Unfortunately Layers is what I couldn't learn well while it is a vital aspect of photoshop. I've read a trick doing with layers and lost original context but I remember it which is as follows:
1. Open an image.
2. Press T and drag with mouse to open a rectangle, in the options bar at top make sure font size is big enough to see what you type.
3. Type "something".
4. Click on the check mark at near the end of options bar to commit typing.
5. In layer palette double click on background layer, in the box that opens just click ok. (open your layer palette with F7 if you can't see it)
6. In layer palette drag and drop "Layer 0" at top over "something" layer. Now you should have "Layer 0" at top and "something" below it.
7. Hold-down Alt key and hover your mouse between two layers in palette, mouse pointer converts to a two circle shape. Click!
now you have your "something" filled with part of your image. you can press V (move) and move freely around your text to show different parts of your image within your text! Have fun!
Dejavu
From: photoshoppros@googlegroups.com [mailto:photoshoppros@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Artist
Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2009 12:23 AM
To: photoshoppros@googlegroups.com
Subject: [PhotoshopPros] Re: To be or not to be...
In order to start a group I needed a name. I believe that just "Photoshop" was already a protected name because it is Adobe's brand. I couldn't start a group called "webmaster" either, Google has reserved many words and brands that would look as if the company themselves was offering support here. Since I had to choose something, and since I wanted to network with other Photoshop professionals, I chose Photoshop Pros to attract other professionals using Photoshop on a daily basis. But the goal is to discuss professional Photoshop techniques, tips and tricks, not to limit the membership or conversations.
We have Photoshop teachers and students as members, as well as others who simply want to learn Photoshop and have never touched it.
Photoshop Pros also makes the distinction between Photoshop Elements and the professional version of Photoshop. I am not limiting discussions to Photoshop, but I actually have no experience with Photoshop Elements, Fireworks or Panit Shop Pro, even though I own both. They are just too limited for me. So I don't know anything about them because every time I try to use them I find myself wanting more. But that doesn't mean that they can't be discussed. We can also discuss photography or creating images from scratch. I use Photoshop to create a great deal of original textures that I use in my designs.
Anyway, the most important thing is to be friendly and professional and never spam the group. Please do include your links in your signature as long as they are to real websites (and not affiliate links). Affiliate links are considered spam.
And that's about it. General banter is also welcome, we just don't want to get too far off topic.
Clayton posted alot before and I think when he moved to back Australia he just got so busy that he stopped posting, but I guarantee you that he is still here. He is constantly approving/rejecting new memberships before I can get to them. Clayton Storey also created the logo for the group.
But the fact that he is busy with his own stuff doesn't mean that we have to be quiet. I've used the group as a resource before and will continue to. I always have way too many personal projects in the fire and I tend to ask the group a question that is stumping me and then move on to the next project until I get an answer, but this group is actually quite quick to respond. And it is very knowledgeable.
As far as the Photoshop Pros website goes, that is just a stop-gap measure. I want to put the website back up, but we lost a great deal of traffic after it was hacked. I am loading the tutorials and other articles based on the "Photoshop" keyword. But I can also post original articles there, as well. And we have a place to post articles and tutorials here, as well. That is, if you need HTML formatting and to be able to upload images, since the regular group posts archives strips out the HTML, you have to post any HTML articles and tutorials using pages. Any images that are included in any of the Pages section will also be available in the files section. If you have a tutorial that requires an external file library, you can zip it up into an archive and upload it to the files section for readers to download and use with the tutorial.
Lots can be done here. Unfortunately, most of us are just too busy working and trying to make a living and the group becomes a second thought. I realize that and don't take offense at all, every member, including lurkers, are valued. The larger this group is, the more resources we have to tap, the more of an authority we are considered by Google.
It's a shame I have to close the group, but we are trying to avoid spam and spammers, so we do require a personal response that speaks to what we are doing or relates to Photoshop here.
Lots of people use the group. Some are graphic artists, photographers, photo retouchers, artists using Photoshop to create images from scratch, webmasters, website designers, even SEO professionals who want to make sure they know how to optimize images the best as new image formats are introduced. Plus teachers and students.
I need to learn more about adjustment layers, myself. I have been in this a long time and adustment layers were new when I got out of school. I just haven't played with them much and so I usually duplicate a layer, turn the original off and then play with the copy. But I would save considerable hard drive space if I used adustment layers a great deal more.
We can all learn, no matter how much we know or how professional we are.
-Doug
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On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:02 AM, j4foster <j4foster@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for all responses regarding red eye, very useful! and that is the sign which we have much more potential in this group than we've thought. I don't think that one should be pro to ask, answer or talk here, though the name of the group implies. Here Artist is group moderator and we can ask him if its true or not.It was very interesting to see "Noise Averaging" video in photoshoppros.com, I've never thought of such a nice way to reduce noise in my life! but I think for a photographer this situation is rare. I mean it needs tripod which most of the time you shoot without it; it needs the same objects in the frame without any move so it should be still life...and same exposure. btw if you shoot on tripod you can set your camera to ISO 100 which gives least noise with one shot (though it couldn't remove it completely if exposure time is high), btw I think its better than any other way in photoshop if you have several identical shots and when details quality is the issue.Dejavu
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