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Peter Figen wrote:
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And while playing with Flare, I also discovered a filter that I never knew about - he Fire or Flame - I can't remember exactly what it's called. Some quite realistic looking flames from that. A lot of the built-in filters can usually be written off as cheesy but every once in a while you can be surprised and find a good one.
I first used Ps when it didn't have a number following, i.e., first edition. I didn't know much about processing as I'd come from B&W film. My full development/printing abilities were develop film, crop/expand via an enlarger, and print. Given that I only had access to a lab in grad school, and I could barely afford film much less paper - not a lot of experience.
With Ps it was crop, saturate, adjust exposure - that's all folks! In battling Ps over these few years, I think Adobe epitomizes the hide the function in the interface or the joy of discovery when you are trying to do something. I'd not paid much attention to select (I yearn to make Color Select work the way I think it should.) And none to Filter -> Render. There's tree, flame, clouds, etc,
It's amazing how after all these years the simplest of things elude me. Take quick mask - please! I understand mask - I think. Area masked prevents anything from happening while operating on the non-masked area. I select, invert. Every thing is pinked out. No matter what I do, any filter applied to non-pink selection affects the whole image. See what I mean? Drive a man to drink.
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