Pixlr (a cloud based version of Photoshop)

[[Geoff Slocock]]

I have had a little play around with an image I took yesterday. I added an extra layer and added to it an hdr like effect. I then reduced the opacity of that layer and merged it with the original (shown lower down).

I can spot the difference and it is only slight. I found I could roughen up the water a bit and if you look carefully other parts of the image are altered too.





If you have a good internet connection this is a sound option. An advantage over the Gimp is that you do not have to install extra features (the FX Foundry) for it work as a photo editor.

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Talking of my own viewpoint, the look and feel between the Gimp and Photo Shop is very similar. I have used PhotoShop. But in any case all advanced editors work in very similar ways.

It appears to lack the local contrast enhancement and the selection of smart sharpening tools that I am used to, that is part of the FX Foundry, though. This is not necessarily a criticism, though, since I found and made good use of those tools only recently. I do not know if they are available in the fuller versions of PhotoShop.

[[Corblimy]]

Have you also looked at Paint.net? I used this to create a 'then and now' shot using a wartime image of a 29 Squadron Mosquito sitting on its dispersal. I knew where the photo had been taken, so armed with my previous little Sony I took about 20 shots from where I thought it had been taken until I could match it up with the original. By creating layers I merged the two together for this ghostly image.

Apparently Paint.net is very similar in aspects to an early version of Photoshop

[[Geoff Slocock]]

That is an excellent pic, Denis. I've looked up paint.net. The drawback is is that it is only for MS Windows.

But the more programs we can luck at the better.

[[Geoff Slocock]]

Hi Denis,

There is another approach to that pic, which you may want to encourage others to have a go at or attempt yourself. That is to do a managed GIF transition where the aircraft fades in and out of view.

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I found this bundle of video tutorials on using pixlr https://sites.google.com/site/pixlrgrabb...-tutorials

Simply by googling pixlr tutorial you get a huge selection come up.

I am giving some thought to doing some of my own work using pixlr and taking screen shots and explaining stuff. But why reinvent the circle unnecessarily.

[[Corblimy]]

I shall have a read of that later, an interesting article by the looks of it.