Jerm, you 8 legged beast, humph, you liked the yellow cause ya like cheese. Hay,she did ok as did her camera, I was just showing her how quickly I could screw up an otherwise good photo with too much processing.

Dear two legged SnapHappy. Yes, Topaz says mac 10.5 on the download page. Get a free download of PSE and Topaz. The reason I suggest PSE is because it seeks plugins automatically. In PSP you need to go to File, Location and tell it where the Plugins are. No big deal, but for a first try make it easy. Also PSE 10 will be out soon so PSE 7,8,9 will be on EBay for low price. Then you can say, "Of Course, I have PhotoShop."

Yooper, It is with great regret that I must inform you that your Governor sold upper michigan to Canada. Note that michigan does not have a capital as it did when I lived in Michigan. I lived in the city that was burned to the ground and dynamited like Stalingrad in WW2!! Flint. Worked in Detroit when they manufactured cars; city to become farm land, great plan!!
Graduate of Grand Blanc HS and first grad class of The Flint College of University of Michigan. Gone are the great days.

Thanks, I was not aware that there was a standalone. One of the NewB's to editing said they used Pixel Bender, but did not respond when asked about source.

I had "twisted pixel" when sold by Serif. Unfortunately, the disk was broken!!?? and so all I have is a serial number! Any one have Twisted Pixel, and was it of worth?

Did contrast, sharpen with Topaz Adjust, it is fast and no brain stuff that is perhaps why I like it. Total about 5 minutes, or 10.

Then In level/color correct just move the eye dropper over and click. Bingo, turns white (remove yellow)

Low cost, I suggest PSP X3 and Topaz Adjust. Total price for both about $100. PSP X-3 compares favorably to $600 PS CS-5 tho the religious following the Adobe god will not agree. Topaz has a stand alone free ware that allows the use of their plugins (i think?) Hope this is the type of "input welcomed" you meant.

Hay, get PSP and Topaz Adj for 30 days ,,, adj is the work horse just use arrow key and go down til you like the look and tweek with sliders at the right side of adjust. You will find it installs under filters. Net has directions for installation. and that is easy stepwise. click this,,, click that and ping, done.

SnapHappy's Moon

Humm, good repair service... perhaps that is why parts only Sony go for hefty price on E-Bay.

SnapHappy, I get good ratings with my P&S Panasonic TZ3. There are few rules I have learned since I protested my consistently low scores. Since that night the club has been doing critiques for all shots.
1 Focus on one assigned theme and it should make a statement
(this month water, a bowel of still water is not a statement, the water should be doing something or something doing to the water.
I have one of my two for Sept. Second will be my handful of Ice in glass coffee urn then use the trick to make (fake smoke) steam. Title: Add handful of Ice to hot coffee!! http://photoextremist.com/ search for video on fake smoke.
2 get rid of junk (preferably before shot, or use clone)
3 do tight crop to theme area (that was my rude awakening)
4 no burned (over exposed) areas (turn down exposure to- you can always brighten)
P&S do not worry, one night a Cellphone photo was top dog! I waited months before submitting. Point is you learn a lot and have fellow FotoNuts to be around once or twice a month.
PS: Download Topaz Adjust. If you do not have a PS etc type program, then they have a free stand alone machine that will use the topaz plugins. Try it for 30, you love it. Don

www.photoextremist.com

Wild and Crazy Guy is a complement of high rank.

Check out this Photo Heroic site. He loves photography and has given PDFs of his books for down load. He does creative photography using typical equipment.

What do you guys think. Check him out. :idea:

Brad, you and The Canon gal,SnapHappy, are both in the area. The TBCC is a great club. The Critiques after the point competition is very helpful. The club meets at 7:00 pm, but usually people get there early to fill out the forms for submission. I think we had over 40 photos submitted last month. Dues are only $35/year and you get a christmas party with food!!! mytbcc.com
Oh, yes, we now have IDs and Press Passes.

Sensitivity, here in USA everyone excuses them selves and are so politically correct!!! My year in Argentina was great, they talk about anything any time and argue political issues and burn tires in the street, just a place of freedom. The strikers have the drummers, and burning tires and are protected by the police. Are we as free as in Argentina? I took lots of street photos there, here I am reluctant, usa is odd place to live once you see the world!!! And I have been here all my life. Also cars and wires everywhere!!!

Brad, I thought you had seen my flowers, every male artistic person has the sensitive-fem side of appreciation of beauty. And, if you are old enough to recall, in the 1990's the ladies searched the that "male with sensitivity and understanding!!!)

No offense taken, see, one lady already replied!! Also have psychological hide like leather. I had a good chuckle. First thing i said was .. Brad's another candidate for remedial reading 101.

Macro - Fungus N Clover


Macro - Lawn Jelly Fish

SnapHappy: Are you in the Tampabay Area? Are you a member of the TBCC, www.mytbcc.com This friday is the competition meeting, Water is the theme.

If in the area, at least check it out one time. d/p

PS: I have a Canon G-2 that I converted to IR only.
PPS: The gal has to have one of those hardy Nikon Bods. I have an old! Nikon 8008. Minolta died long ago. Kodak DC4800 is still a living camera, 3mp and 12years old!!!

Alas, Ronny, Look up FastStone Resize. Free program, will do batch processing. It will increase or decrease size, dpi, pxls, add copyrite and jump over tall building in a single bound. I think the free "topaz Fusion" allows for standalone otherwise, you use it as a plugin for PSP, PS and prob others.
http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm

Go to the topazlabs.com website and see the examples, wow.
You can download a full working for 30 days. The have educational Webinars for free and you get discount on programs. New B/W program (much more than B/w) until 9-28 intro for $29. The simplify will take the MG and work it over that is one of their examples.

If i go to the site and see the MG-TC? I will cry! Loved my classics and my Triumph ,,, My last was a 66 Ford Fairlane convert. I bought with 54K and 17 y/o drove for 14years and sold for twice what I paid for it. Hug the road!! d/p

NO, Brad, I, Don, a stout hearted male, looking for a Gal with beautiful Nikon Bod.

The October Popular Photography that I just got via digital, has a great rundown on all the Mirrorless cameras. Worthwhile article.

Probably rather than hunting for a Nikon gal, I will look for a Nipon gal named Sony. I have Minolta AF lenses in my ol' stuff box. Sony fits my travel lite style.

Brad Robb wrote, "My wife says to me today, I think my old camera is a Canon see if that lens will fit. Come to find out she has an old EOS Rebel G with a 35-80mm 1:4-5.6 on it. Free lens."

Brad, I am single, you have inspired me! I will place a singles ad today; "Single guy-photo-fanatic with Nikon Lenses wants to meet lovely gal-photographer with beautiful digital Nikon-body."

Guys, beautiful macros and great lighting. Kudos.

Jerm, Please tell me that No Fly was injured during the making of this photo :>) Again in Awe of this photo! Flys can be beautiful; they are the Macro-Vultures of our world and an environmental necessity.

Quagmire,you went with a Super-Zoom rather than an alpha with interchange. Is it for the same reason as me, I hate lugging stuff around (hence my Panasonic TZ3)? I see that the 100V has impressive specifications and great burst. I am considering an Sony alpha because I have Minolta Lens. Most of the time I would use the come-with 18-55mm lens. The large sensor would give me an image I could crop to give, perhaps, a telephoto equal image. Or, heaven forbid, I would carry one super zoom telephoto Minolta.

What tilted you to the 100V?

Ronny, I agree. PSE 10 will probably change your 80% up another 5% the remaining 15% useless to most. Reality is that buy a system and learn the tools and you have a big investment, your brain and hours of learning; SO BUY ONE AND STICK WITH IT.

Changing systems is difficult and generally a worthless investment of learning time/energy. What a fiasco MSWord 07 Ribbon is to many and me!! I will stick with 03 for ever because I know the menu. Perhaps Ribbon is better but so-what, likewise, stick with familiar menus, be it PS, PSP etc. (In fairness, I should not leave out Serif X-4 that I purchased on full rebate!!!) If PS came out with a Ribbon Menu and did not allow old style, they would lose a big following.

For those concerned with $$; usually the many Point-Shoot/NewB guys, they may like to consider PSP. Corel's PSP X3 Ultra, is only $30 (on special) direct from Corel and does most every thing that PS-CS does and Ultra comes with many plugins. Another advantage to PSP X-3 is the automatic-indexing to tool-in-use Help is on the left margin for newB's leading-by-the hand (OK,me too sometimes!). GOOD HELP SYSTEM IS VERY IMPORTANT. PSE goes on line for help and muddies into lists and then further muddies with different versions of PSE.

The $50 difference in PSE and PSP can be used for buying TopazLab's Adjust that turns PSE or PSP into magic. Ronny, have you tried Topaz Adjust?