For the past couple of decades I have been doing my photography editing and graphics work in Corel programs. Currently I’m using DRAW! X6, PaintShop Pro X5, and Photo-Paint X6. Give me a graphics or photo project and I can do it in those three programs.
Since around this time last year, I set out on a mission to learn Adobe Photoshop. In addition to the Corel programs, I had used Photoshop and PageMaker in the ’80s and ’90s because of my work. When my work no longer required them in 1994, I quit using them and quit upgrading them.
I know that the current version of Photoshop, CS6, can do everything that the three Corel programs can do, but the masses say that the learning curve is pretty steep. I’m here to tell you that the learning curve is, indeed, steep. But it sure is fun!
Today I’ve been learning to do callouts and talk bubbles in Photoshop CS6. The process is intuitive, but because things show up on different layers, getting things to come together, especially if you just want to edit text or change a graphic, can be frustrating. Once you learn how things work, though, it becomes much easier.
Here is a picture that I added two talk bubbles to.
It took me about an hour (and a couple of margaritas, a plate of nachos, a BLT sandwich, and a beer) to do that. However, once I understood how things worked, it took just a couple of minutes to do it again on a different picture.
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You and your margaritas, Maybe I should try them so I could be as creative as you!
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Agree they took me ages to figure and even harder when I just wanted the bubble outline! But finally accomplished that today – not sure if your comments will allow this to show:
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Great job!
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Well done on the birds! I have tried numerous times to learn photoshop. I fear it isn’t for me…
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How can you manage to even see straight after two margaritas and a beer, LOL No wonder it took so long.
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RR, I have Photoshop elements and I hardly use it anymore, because my laptop crash and I can’t hardly see what I write afterwards. So I gave up, but maybe I have to drink margaritas too before using this program. Btw the birds are awesome 🙂
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Got to get myself photo editing software, although now I’m a little concerned as to how much beer I’ll need to drink to get my head around the stuff. I’d probably end up in rehab.
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Looks great…. you can do your own jokes now…. 🙂
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It can be so much fun to use them
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I really like your pic by the way
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I’m interested to learn that Corel is still around. I tried it years ago and couldn’t get on with it. Like you and some of your commentators I find Photoshop difficult but fairly intuitive.
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love this pic of zoey too!
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cute 🙂
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Hey that is pretty cool! I am learning CS6 now. Will have to try it out. Thanks for sharing.
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I purchased Corel Draw many many years ago. It was very difficult to learn and I never really mastered the software. However, learning at the lowest level gave me a better appreciation for other graphic software allowing me to learn it much quicker.
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My daughter uses Photoshop a lot but I’ve never found it easy, even in its earlier incarnations. I prefer Corel Draw, but then I suppose I’m so used to the way it works with vector I may be biased.
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Looks great!
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You do indeed have an all-pro, A+ blog, Sir Ray…
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