Re: photo editing software

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:50:34 -0500, Joel wrote:

ray <ray@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:32:29 -0500, Joel wrote:

Cats <ramwater@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jul 14, 9:56 pm, cherylp <clp99...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks, everyone for your comments and helpful hints. I am still
struggling with Irfanview. I went out to Circuit City yesterday to
buy Photoshop CS3 -- they didn't have it in stock, and the clerk
told me he didn't use it anyway -- he used irfanview. He has it on
a work computer, and he helped me solve some of my problems. So
now I have the requested dpi and pixels, but now I'm dealing with
distortion, i.e., a vertical picture is now horizontal. I have
hope that I shall get it mastered eventually.

Until you get your head round the problems you are solving at
present, a big complicated produce like CS3 will IMHO simply make
life harder for you. IrfanView has Rotate in the image menu, but I
expect that when you rotate the image it will be the wrong size...

Hmmm it sounds like Cats is a Photoshop experted? If not, you too
I
would
suggest.

1. If you are still young with lot of enegery then I would suggest to
invest in Photoshop then you will have a much longer time to enjoy
the benefit of it

2. *If* you are old don't have much time to enjoy life (unless you
are incapable of learning then it's another story) then you may learn
in hurry because you won't have much time to enjoy.

And if you haven't learned then you have wasted so many valuable
years
for
nothing, if you find it's too hard to learn then that's the price you
have to pay for because you have wasted your valuable time on
IrfanView then you have to compare IrfanView with the thing you don't
know or don't know well. Or before you can learn new stuff, you will
have to

1. Learn to undo what you learned from other

2. Learn not to compare thing you know with thing you don't know

3. Learn to realize that the more you know the easier thing will be.

You've put your finger on another part of the problem. No one can USE
photoshop until they've had a six month course in how to run it! The
open source products are, generally, much more intuitive.

That's what you need "6 months" of practicing and taking some class
will
help but not required.

At young age you can learn more and lot quicker in 6 months, at
older
you
don't want to waste another valuable 6 months.

Now, lets say you are 50-60 years old, if you haven't learned then
you
still know nothing. Now lets say it takes you 1 years to learn, and you
will die at the age of 65 then you have only 4 years to enjoy the
knowledge <bg>

Thanks for proving my point. The two most complex pieces of software
around, at least judging by the number of classes around and the number of
folks who take them, must be photoshop and MS powerpoint. IMHO the open
source replacements for both of them are much easier to use.
.

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