It was reassuring to find that this version was in many ways similar to the old Elements 3 I was using before so it wasn't completely new territory. But there are many new features and lots of help to use them so I can see I will find this fun and perhaps not too frustrating.
I've played with some of the features using doodles from last November ... and am posting some embryonic results.
First of all with the Orton effect applied (among, I suspect, several others) ...
and then with the stacking effect after removing the colour and adding brush lines ...
I found with the printmaking that printing out thumbprint pix of different stages and writing up how I got there, and what I thought of them was a great help. Somehow the stopping to think and write was reinforcing on one level, and then having the notes there to consult later provides another level of help.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Olga, that's very useful advice. I do need to be more organised and that would be a great way to do it. It might stop me rushing enthusiastically onwards so that I miss useful stuff. My daughter has a book I might borrow too ...
DeleteThese are wonderful. If you're saving the final image as a psd file, you should have all the details of tweaks right in the file, in the layers section on the lower right.
ReplyDeleteGreat, Connie, and thank you. I have saved the images as psd files (as well as the jpegs for uploading to my blog) so I now know to look for the details in the file - something I'd not realised.
DeleteHow exciting! Clearly you are going to have a lot of fun with this new version! Can't wait to see what else you produce....and what great inspiration...
ReplyDeleteIt is exciting. I love new 'toys' and find them most inspiring so maybe I'll manage a bit more playing this evening or tomorrow ... Will post anything interesting.
DeleteIt's always so much fun to explore new tools and techniques. Happy playing!
ReplyDeleteIt is indeed fun - and there are so many tools and techniques out there to try ... aren't we lucky?!
DeleteInteresting effects. I too should make a note of things as I do them, especially when I don't save as a psd file
ReplyDeleteYes indeed, Maggi, this reminded me that I need to be more disciplined than I am!
DeleteI like both results, they look a lot as if they had been drawn by hand. The lines are bold and full of energy. Pity you can't remember the steps you took but I'm sure that if you keep playing you will finally work it out :)
ReplyDeleteVery many thanks, Ersi Marina - quite a lot of the lines were drawn by hand, either before photographing the original which was done on paper or by using the brush tool after cropping, etc in Photoshop itself.
DeleteI played a little more this afternoon and found some more interesting effects. This time I did write down what I did!