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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
NTR: Good Photoshop tutorials online?
I know I've been asking a lot of SLR questions, so sorry for another one...
I am trying my hand at Photoshop CS5. I plan on downloading the 30-day trial to see if I can get the hang of it (Mac version).
1. Is it difficult to navigate/understand? I've been told mixed reviews.
2. Can you recommend some good online tutorials on how to use it (the basics, at least)?
Re: NTR: Good Photoshop tutorials online?
I think I have CS3... with tutorials and time to play around, you can figure out the basics. I usually use Photoshop after doing the majority of my edits in Lightroom. I'd highly recommend looking at Lightroom. It's much more user-friendly and intuitive, and it's getting to the point where many pro photographers use it exclusively for post-processing and don't even touch Photoshop except for very artistic edits.
But for Photoshop tutorials I've used the following sites so far:
http://photo.tutsplus.com/
http://www.mcpactions.com/blog/
http://www.thecoffeeshopblog.com/p/test.html -- she has great free PS actions.
Can you tell me what the major differences b/w Lightroom and Photoshop are?
Photoshop is just a photo editing program. If you want to edit down to the pixel, it's what you want. It's great for things like skin smoothing and fine art edits.
Lightroom is a photo editing program plus a photo organizing program. You can build a folder structure, keyword/tag photos to easily find them, and it really helps with workflow.
For most people, especially non-pros, it does everything. LR will automatically import photos and save them to your hard drive if they're on a memory card. It allows you to sort them and search through them. Plus you can move from image to image easily. With PS, you have to open each image individually and edit it in Camera Raw first, then the image moves into PS itself. There's no way to sort through the images easily (at least, that I know of). That's why most people with PS get Adobe Bridge. It's an organizational program.
Some articles you could look at:
http://www.photographyconcentrate.com/2011/jun/27/photoshop-vs-lightroom-epic-battle/
http://www.iheartfaces.com/2011/01/pondering-lightroom-vs-photoshop/