Yeah, with all the walkthroughs and videos available, it's not really difficult to learn any technique. I learned most of what I know by trying to re-create effects that looked cool.
That said, I know people who bought Elements because it is inexpensive, but can barely operate it. On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 2:14 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Miserere > > >> One further comment. I liked how he had a photo of a hand going into a >> computer monitor holding a Windows info box saying "This was made >> without Photoshop" or something to that effect. Yeah, he used Gimp! >> It's a bit disingenuous to promise people they can do stuff without >> Photoshop only to later inform them (once they've purchased your book) >> they have to learn an even less intuitive software program. > > > I read that more as "You can do this without having to spend $600." > > I don't think the difficulty of figuring out how to use Photoshop is as big > a barrier as the price for most people. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
