Photoshop - saving new pix, too ... Elements 5.0 , 9.0

Hi John et al -

PhotoShop isn't just for touching up scans of older photos - here are some digital shots
from 2008 & 2009 that were 'saved' using the old copy of PhotoShop Elements 5.0* that
came with my then-new scanner half-a-dozen years ago.**

Here's what the camera captured on 06/16/08 when I attempted to replicate my lifetime favorite photo taken at m.p. 286.72 on 08/29/68:**


And the same file after an hour's work in Elements:



This photo taken from the moving rider gon late in the day on 09/14/09 - using a hand-held Panasonic FZ50 - seemed at first to be too dark to be worth playing with:


But after working on the .raw file for a while - and substituting the more interesting sky taken one shot earlier - the end result was good enough to be used in George Niederauer's book on the restoration of #315:


- Russo

  * I recently upgraded to PhotoShop Elements 9.0 - and quickly reverted to 5.0 for nearly all my photo editing.  Elements 5.0 offers MUCH more intuitive and direct control over printing, and lets me edit photos the way I want them to be (right or wrong), whereas 9.0 seems to impose its own "judgement" by default - sometimes forcing convoluted work-arounds.  Elements 5.0 may be missing some of the bells & whistles of 9.0, but - just as I prefer driving a stick-shift 4x4 to an automatic - it gives me the feeling of being in control.

** See [ngdiscussion.net], above.



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 09/14/2011 09:05PM by Russo Loco.