Your class really confused you apparently. LR and PS have nothing to do with each other. LR is a stand alone software that can be bought because it's rather inexpensive. The last time I bought it, I believe it was $59 at B&H. But it also comes along free with Photoshop CC in the creative cloud online photography package for $10 a month. As soon as I got Photoshop CC, I never opened LR ever again. I have a stand alone version on my hard drive and downloaded the newest one with my Photoshop CC too. But I don't use either one.

Photoshop on the other hand is FAR more extensive and does what's called "layers" editing. Let's say you want to darken blown out windows. You highlight the windows with a tool that creates a lasso around the window, choose the exposure altering tool and reduce gamma until objects in the window are revealed and the window panes are considerably darker. That change resides on a layer. You want to increase color saturation of some other object, let's say a large red vase of red carnations sitting on a table. You highlight it with the selection tool, click on the saturation tool, and increase saturation far above normal until the red is at any level you want. That change is now on a layer as well. You want to increase contrast on some furniture near a window that is slightly foggy because of the window light behind it. Highlight the couch back and hit the contrast button to increase the contrast of just the couch back. That is now on another layer. If you decide you don't like the flaming red vase of flowers, delete the layer and that change is gone. You can save the file in Photoshop format and it retains all your layers individually for later adjusting, or you can merge all the layers and flatten the photo so the layers are gone and all the things you adjusted are permanently done to the original photo. It's like the old overhead projector plastic layers stacked on top of each other. If you had one line of text on each plastic sheet, the total stack may be projecting 10 lines of text. In Photoshop if you had 10 layers of changes they are stacked on top of each other (layered) and the stack equals the end result you wanted to see. I do editing of 50 to 70 HDR auto-bracketed sets of 7 exposures every day, by using Photomatix bulk processing to create the HDR single TIFF files, and then go into Photoshop CC and do everything else until I have finished products in JPG format to send out.

You can't do ANY of that with LR because it doesn't have layers. You can increase or decrease gamma of the WHOLE photo, increase the color saturation of the WHOLE photo, etc. and do a number of other things to the WHOLE photo but not to individual components or areas of the photo.

Photoshop has it's own Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) module which acts 95% like the editing abilities of LR so you don't need LR with Photoshop CC.

LR's unique ability, if you enjoy it, but I and many others don't, is it's "Librarian" which tracks where your files are on your hard drive and allows you to move things around in a very different manner than Photoshop uses. Some people love it but I find it to be a total nightmare. Lots of people have great difficulty understanding the LR Librarian, lose things on their hard drive, freak out when they think they've deleted files when they really didn't, delete files when they didn't want to, etc. Photoshop on the other hand has a file manipulation module called Bridge which acts, to me at least, like a massive Windows Explorer or File Manager on steroids. It's understandable by anybody who has ever used their operating system's file management scheme. It also has other screens to look at your files in different ways if you want to but none of them will confuse you into thinking you lost something.

I don't see the point of buying Photoshop for more than $500 when you can have it for $9.99 a month, get free updates for the whole time you are a subscriber, never have to pay for an update to a new version, and it includes LR if LR really thrills you. You can have PS-CC for 50 months for the price of buying the stand alone version outright and you're not stuck with an old Photoshop CS2 or 3 or 4 or whatever at that point.

They key to your success is that you are living by what Jesus told follower to do and be, plus finding the moral values throughout the Bible that end up being an instruction manual on how to live your life. You're not living your life by worshipping Jesus himself as if he is a Catholic saint. Too many in Christianity spend their time praying to Jesus, spending their time studying the birth and death of Jesus, thanking Jesus for the parking spot they just found up close to the front door of WalMart, repeating incessantly that "God So Loved The World That He Gave His Only Begotten Son" which doesn't even make sense since Jesus rising out of death and ascending into Heaven (or into God depending on how you perceive it) means that God GOT Jesus BACK from here and is happy - not sad. Everybody in Christianity is too busy grieving about the crucifixion, celebrating his birth and resurrection, and treating him like a magic saint to actually read and understand what he taught. As a matter of fact, the Bible as we know it doesn't even have record of possibly 1% of what he said to do and be to please God and go to "Heaven." We'll never know what all he said while teaching and preaching but certainly it wasn't about praising HIM personally, worshipping HIM personally, or any of what Christianity does all the time.

Thomas Jefferson but all the words attributed to Jesus out of his Bible. He looked them all over and determined which phrases seem to be in accordance with the personality of Jesus and what he was trying to tell us. He then pasted them into a book of blank pages and that became his Bible. He was called all kinds of names including "heretic" for doing that but stuck to his guns. I think he was closer to learning God's truths by doing that than anything else he could have done for himself.

No, nothing except that you don't point it forward toward the subject like some dipstick reviewer did. You just point it straight up, set your flash and camera for TTL, and experiment for the right amount of flash with the flash compensation control of your camera. There have been times in tight quarters that I had to turn the flash down to 1/4 or 1/2 power but typically I just let the camera and flash handle it. There's no direct blast to create facial glare or over-bleaching.

The Muslims over on the eastern side of the city will have 77 each, so I'll just borrow one once in a while!

If I have to be a virgin, I'm screwed because I'm a long shot from that definition.

I'm not sure I've ever seen a Hitachi drive in consumer electronics stores. One thing I did learn though is that a Toshiba external drive won't work on a Dell computer. The Dell recognizes that the Toshiba drive requires more current than other drives and thinks it's drawing too much (although it isn't) and shuts down the power to the USB buss it's connected to. I had bought one at Best Buy and couldn't get it to work. Thought it was the drive and returned it for a new one. Still wouldn't work. After about a half hour of Google I found the answer. Returned it, told them that and most didn't know that but one guy did. Bought a Seagate, no more problem.

I suppose we'll have to have 3-tall bunk beds if we're Top Tier. Of course, we can't be because Jehovah Witnesses say they are going to be the Top Tier. Well at least some of them. They have millions of followers worldwide so I guess only their Administration at home office get to be Top Tier.

Personally I use a clone of a Gary Fong diffuser which has a cap on it and the sides are fluted translucent plastic so you get upward flash and flash in all horizontal directions as well. If you have 20 or 30 foot ceiling in a place, you just can't muster up enough flash to bounce that far unless you have a flash than can peel the asphalt off of a driveway. I got my clones on eBay for about $16 to $18 each.

So do I. My Great Grandfather on my Mother's side was 100% Cherokee from Kentucky.

What about the people who were faithful to God and what he wanted from them before Christ? Don't they get to go to heaven? What about the people who have never heard of Christ? Do they burn in hell? So the Bible being clear that you you can be with God after death if you are a good Christian doesn't hold water. Christ himself didn't teach that. There wasn't even such a word as "Christian" in his time and he was a humble man who wouldn't have wanted people to call themselves that. He didn't even want to be called Lord or Master because he considered those terms to be restricted to God only. Christ taught to act as innocently as little children who play together and share without greed, hatred, or intent of harm, and then you can please God and go to Heaven. I don't believe he was egotistical enough to actually say, "Believe in ME and you'll go to heaven." I suspect he more likely said "Believe in what I'm teaching you and you'll go to heaven just as I'm going to do soon." but that got lost in biblical changes by those in power who wanted to stay in power and boost revenue by pronouncing themselves the only place to go to learn how to believe in Christ. There was even an era where the Catholic church burned all Bibles the people had so they had total control of Bibles and they were in Latin so regular people couldn't read them if they tried.

Note that I did not say Cherokee Indians don't have near death experiences. I said the experiences would not be the same as Christians.

I don't believe this thread is about NOT believing there's a creator, only doubt about what churches are teaching and the correctness of the intentionally and unintentionally altered and mistranslated text of the Bible. No matter how many times you read the Bible you have to wonder things like:

1. If Adam and Eve were the first two humans, how did their two boys go out and find wives? Wives from where?
2. Is the end of our era going to be a meeting of the saints in the air, a book of life reading where the wheat and chaff are separated and the chaff is burned in a lake of fire, a city coming down onto earth with 12 entrances where 144,000 are allowed to live forever, or a massive fight between Russia and China that takes place in the middle east as Armageddon? It can't be all of the above.
3. If Jesus had the enormous power available to be resurrected from the dead, why did angels have to roll away the stone?
4. There were 5 supposed virgin births in the same area within a few years of when Jesus was born. Who's telling the truth?
5. If God loves every living being, even the sparrows, why would He tell the Israelites to go into the Promised Land and kill every single man, woman, child, and animal to take over? Did He decide to not love those thousands for some reason?
6. If God loves every living being, why did the OT tell of the earth opening up and 25,000 fall into the earth and are covered up?
7. Why does God approve of and bless polygamy in the Old Testament but after the dark age of 400 years before the New Testament starts God suddenly changes his mind and only monogamy is acceptable?

The Bible is a collection of books, especially the NT, written by fiction writers. The OT was written thousands of years after the fact. The 4 gospels of the NT were not written by the Disciples of those names but were written by fiction writers 80 to 450 years after the events and characters were all dead. that was assembled by a Catholic council to become the one and only canon of their mainstream Christianity. Dozens if not hundreds of other Christianities who believed various variations on the same theme were stomped, read that killed, out of existence and all their texts were burned so that they wouldn't be found and the one and only canon, THE Bible, would reign supreme. King Jame created his version. Henry VIII created his own version. They weren't similar at all. Whenever they felt like changing something to their liking they did so. This is not a matter of "men wrote it but they were under the control of God." So I have to vehemently disagree that there are no semi-truths in the Bible. It's loaded with them and the list of seven above are just scratching the surface. That old saw that the Bible is a mystery we're not supposed to fully understand until going to Heaven is bunk. In reality it's up to us individually to research all sources and finds truths about God and the afterlife everywhere not just put blinders on and stick our noses to the Bible grindstone. I don't argue that the Bible is an operation manual to living your life better and being a better human being but many of the same morals and standards are built into you already if you choose to recognize them and not ignore them. Once you recognize it's up to us to treat everyone and everything with respect and do only positive things for them, do you really have to be told to honor your father and mother? No. Do you have to be told to not have sex with your friend's wife because it's adultery and dramatically harms their relationship? No. Do you have to be told that stealing is wrong? No. Do you have to be told to do good for your fellow man and you'll be blessed for doing so? No.

Congrats on being a Christian and believing in God but you need to open your eyes to other concepts and sources that enhance your beliefs if you want to learn and grow as a believer. Churches don't want you to do that because they want you to be enslaved to weekly tithes to keep their budget covered. Native American Indians don't get sent to the burning fires of hell for not living as Christians. Babies killed in car wrecks don't burn in hell for not accepting Christ or before they're baptized. Zulu tribesmen aren't burned in hell for not knowing anything about Christianity at all.

It IS interesting! Personally I've had two hard drive failures, an internal and an external. Both were WD. So I've been buying Seagate since then. But this might just change my opinion now.

I agree with that conclusion. When Catholics and other Christians (all Protestant churches are branch offs of the Catholic Church) who were raised to believe in hell flames and heavenly love/acceptance die, let's say on the operating table or in an accident, and they are revived... almost every one of them tells of their out of body experience, going toward hell flames or being drawn "into the light" and even describe a city with streets of gold and all that stuff just as described in the Bible they were raised with. They believed, or at least had been taught, these things before having their experience and they come back with the goal of verifying that what they already believed is true.

A Buddhist, Muslim, or Cherokee Indian would not come back from death with the same experiences that a Christian did. No revived human has ever come back and claimed that they had been surrounded with blackness, had no thoughts, and saw nothing as though they didn't exist - so there's something that goes on with the spirit when it leaves the body in a spirit world.

While the links you gave are interesting and likely true, mainstream Christianity got this Heaven and Hell scenario from a drama/comedy play by Dante called "Inferno." which was performed for a Roman Emperor. The Emperor just loved it and wanted everyone in Rome to see it too. The leadership of the Universal Church of Rome, which eventually became the Roman Catholic Church, wanted to boost their power, financial gains, and favoritism with the Emperor so, get this, they incorporated the Heaven being angels sitting on fluffy clouds and the burning tar pits and flames of Hell with demons in red suits prodding sinners for eternity into the Bible. That was in the 4th Century AD if I remember right without going back to books documenting it.

I also understand that the word hell was used in Germany to describe a place in the ground to store potatoes for the winter. You put your potato crop in hell until the weather got better. So that was incorporated into the Bible as a term that, as one of your articles verifies, is very loosely used to cover several different meanings. For example, "Jesus descended into hell and..." No, Jesus was put into a cavern, cave, or whatever as a burial site. That is storage of a body in the ground so it got translated into going into hell or being put in hell. Nowhere does Jesus himself claim he's going to Hell to do battle with Satan and come out victorious as the all powerful Champion of Love. Christianity has created all of that to make Jesus Christ into a spiritual superstar, which really isn't necessary. Just the fact that he came back as a spiritual entity who could walk through walls and talk to the grieving Disciples to prove that there is life after death, and he had already ascended into the spirit world to become one with God before doing so, is plenty amazing enough. It is of no concern to me whether his body was resurrected or stolen by believers. It's his spirit that is important not his flesh body. The church also likes to keep us in fear of God's wrath with "fire and brimstone" preaching of going to hell if you're a sinner to burn for all eternity or trust them to lead you to salvation and away from damnation. Jesus didn't teach that. Look at a Bible where his words are in red and you won't see him talking about burning in hell anywhere.

It's been my believe for some time now that the Bible is so screwed up by intentional mistranslations to push or create somebody's agenda that you can't trust it as the Truth. I believe that you follow a path of righteousness, love for others, and being generous with your time, efforts, and possessions, which pleases God, then you die and re-enter the realm of God from which your spirit came when you were conceived. I view God (and Heaven as well), not as a person or singular entity, but as an ocean of all positive knowledge to tap into while here and to become part of after physical death - as well as the source of all life force in all living entities and love. Spiritualists know this as "The Ether." If you do your best to become completely positive in the lives of everyone and everything while in the physical realm, you can return there and become part of God, Heaven, or the Ether. If not, and this is controversial, I believe you come back to the physical realm again (reincarnation) to go through another life and hopefully get the clue the next time - over and over like a merry-go-round. Then once you get it, you are off the merry-go-round of being stuck here and go home to become part of the universal ocean of everything positive known as God, Allah, Jehovah, or whatever. Thus - this world with all the corruption and evil that is man-made IS hell. Hell being eternal separation from God which your spirit doesn't enjoy until you get with the program and escape it.

I believe in reincarnation, not as an animal or as a bug, but as another human. I've met at least a dozen people in my life that I just knew immediately that I had known before. First Century Christians knew about reincarnation, many believed in it, and it was common knowledge. Jesus even asked "who do the people think I am?" And the answer was larger than life Jewish characters from the past. Jesus never denies reincarnation is valid, didn't admonish anybody for believing in it, and may have actually been Noah, Elijah, Moses, and others in previous lives, for all we know, as he learned more and more from each life span until he ascended into "heaven" as the first (but not only) Son of God. Archaeologists now know that Jesus traveled and studied in Eastern countries during the "lost years" and he is to this day well-renowned in India as a Guru with extraordinary powers he developed through serious meditation (prayer) to God within himself. That history can't be denied because it's fact and the influence of Eastern religions upon what Jesus taught can't be denied either. That would explain why he didn't rebuke anyone who implied or said he was a reincarnation of someone highly respected from an earlier time period.

Which is the long way of saying that the "Heaven and Hell" theory we are all subjected to is HOGWASH.

It's just a drone with the "Follow Me" feature on all the time. No big deal. I'd prefer a real drone so I could set the "Follow Me" on sometimes or turn it off for other uses personally.

True. The virtual tour hosting company where I put my real estate photo tours just told me a month ago that they don't like Flash, it's been a problem for a long time, different versions of Flash work with their system and others don't, and they're sick of it and want better compatibility with mobile devices. So they're putting up a whole new HTML 5 system and plan on having it up by July.