Photoshop Newbie Has Questions

Chris, PM me your phone number and i'll take you thru it

 

Hi, Chris.

Aside from Sandi walking you through, you might find this site of help for getting up-to-speed w/ PS -- it does assume you have some basic knowledge of photography though.

http://epaperpress.com/psphoto/

I suspect what you have their is just a file for applying a Velvia curve adjustment in PS. If so, after you unzip the file into an easily accessible location (eg. My Document folder) and opened up your photo file in PS, you should be able to load the curve adjustment via Image -> Adjust -> Curves -> Load. There are other more complicated ways you can use the curve adjustment, eg. via layers.

Most of this stuff are covered to some extent in the above tutorial site. The use of a Velvia curve on a color photo would be like the use of one of the classic tone curves on a B&W photo found on that site (under the B&W section).

If what you actually have there is a PS action, well, I guess Sandi will walk you through that as that site doesn't seem to explicitly touch on how to use actions -- though it offers some. If you want a tutorial on actions (and some free actions to try out too), you might try this old page set up by a DPR forum member a long while back:

http://www.geocities.com/kafuensis/

Hope all this helps ya...

_Man_

 

Hi Chris.....

Open the zip file. It the uncompressed file has an .atn extension then it is an action file, which you can load in your action palate and then use.

Hope this helps

Regards

 

Well, this cd be a curve, an action or a plugin, won't know until we hear back from Chris.

 

Chris, I get free north american phone service so the cost is no problem. I'll have to type my fingers to the bone to walk you thru installing and then opening an action file if you're not familiar at all with them. If you are familiar with them, store the atn file where you know it will stay, go to the Actions Palette, the small triangular arrow at the top and go to Load Action, then aim back to where you stored the atn file. You can then run the atn on your picture. Hope this helps, Cheers, S

 

Well, I guess Chris must have gotten it figured out. Any samples?

 

Chris, nothing received at this end ???   no outstanding PMs and no mail.
Try this: unzip the file, let's call it 'velvia.atn' to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop 7.0\Presets\Photoshop Actions folder.
Open up the picture you want to edit, then on the Actions Pallette, press the little blue triangle at the top (Pic1).

Scroll cursor down to Load Actions (Pic2). Go to where you stored the atn file, highlight the Velvia atn, and hit LOAD (pic3). The Velvia Action folder will then appear in your actions pallette. Press the little blue arrow beside the folder icon, which will open up the action folder. Then highlight the word Velvia and press the right arrow at the bottom of the Actions pallette (pic4) which will run the action on your picture.

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Hope this helps.

 

Sandi -- that's very nicely illustrated!

 

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On left toolbar, highlight SHAPES, then on top toolbar, hit dropdown list beside the small SHAPES tool, and you'll see all the shapes available. Draw your shape and then rotate and move it where you want it. Hope this helps, Cheers, Sandi

 

well...how do you make the red circles then? j/k! =)

 

Nate, draw a circle and then Edit > Stroke.
BTW, Nate, if you list all your equipment in your signature in a straight line rather than a list, it saves in scroll downs when we go thru the messages. Old saying in advertising: white space sells nothing! *LOL*

 

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