My printer has just turned 5 years old, superseeded by more models than I can count. But if you are in the market for a secondhand Epson ET - 7700 I can offer you some tips, the main one being make sure you print something every week.

If I'd seen your question and had anything useful to add I would have said something, but since the change a while back I find I'm looking at less UH.

When I added this I should quoted Delderbys' previous answer. Looking again this morning, I can see it could easily be misconstrued as a negative appraisal of Delderbys' fine photo.

Wonderful trip through a short passage in time.

The Kites in Wales are a mixture of indigenous birds and some from the re-introduction of the last 30 years. The greenery just looks tired from the continual rain, lack of sunlight, and like me, is atmospherically depressed. Even the moss in my garden is floating!

But the kites here are doing well, I'm just waiting for the scenery to catch up.

For far away members, West Wycombe is just down the road from me.

No, I meant perpendicular to the lens.

Looks a lot greener than my part of the U.K., which is looking very pale and washed out at the moment. If the sun comes out today I might be tempted to go and look for some deep, rich, vibrant greens.

Simple way to quell that theory, write the date the same way as most of the rest of the world.

[quote=cyclespeed]Is this a test to see how many of us don't follow directions and post color first then number?[quote]

oops!

I like it, I think you've got enough contrast in there, but I wonder if a greater depth of field would make a better image. I'd also like to see this head on.

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I have had several goes at this and tried the suggestions, along with a few other suggestions made my corespondents on an AFFINITY specific Facebook page. But I'm coming up short. I don't fully understand layers, that is to say I know what the intention is, just that my use and application of them seems to be pretty low down the percentage scale.

As per Rongnongnos' suggestion I have attached the two shots.

So far, I have softened the hat and turned it around (not the attached image), and tried to use perspective tools to get it to lay at an angle on the table but with not much success. I have managed to 'rebuild' the table using selections and reversing them before pasting and merging and I've had some success with this (attached).

If anyone feels like having a go - and is happy for me to use it (if not, show me what you've done and put a watermark on it) please do so.

I feel this is more a direct ascent than a steep learning curve at the moment - and my form of dyslexia isn't making it any easier!

Hatless table.

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'Hollies' hat.

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Don't what it is - but it's not the EIFFEL Tower. Looks more like something specifically built for Communications to me.

Here's mine. All done in AFFINITY v2.

I tried to take some some of the light reflection in the sky, intensfied the red and took the yellow done a few % to try and acheive a slightly cooler nightime scene. And a little sharpening / clarity over the urban landscape.

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I can remember taking a dynamo of a vehicle in a breakers while two other vehicles on top wobbled about.
Nowadays it's all stripped, cleaned and sometimes boxed. And three times the price.