Nice pics hiker thanks...

Wow. Super work...

Bob - I retired from Ford in 2005. My dad graduated from GMI and worked at the Willow Run Bomber plant during the war, then GM, then Ford. I went to Redford HS in Detroit.

I enjoy looking through this website. Another good one is flikr - man there is some real talent there. I have a bunch of my car and a aircraft images parked there.

btw What filter did you use for the crow image? I know I don't have this one in Paint Shop.

Joe

That's a really great image...

Bob - That's a cool picture. It would make a nice print...

Judy - Nice pictures. But what I notice on so many really really good shots on this website is that they are on the underexposed side. I am able to get a lot of these images to pop by just using the one step photo fix in Paint Shop...

Well said Russ. Speaking for myself I just bang away trying to compose and shoot the best I can on the fly with what I have - a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while - and then do the Paint Shop. For me it's relaxing. I take mostly pictures of airplanes and cars and if I get a 'wow' or 'nice' from someone all the better. Being a pro as yourself with all of the gear, the rest of us can only hope for a near perfect shot to enhance.

Keep us apprised about the product you are developing.

I see that Paint Shop Pro X7 Ultimate is $80 right now. I started using it when it was by JASC before Corel bought it. If I had to do it over again I would strongly consider Photoshop only because it is more of a standard. For all practical purposes Paint Shop has served me well.

The car shows what can be done with a really bad image taken by a little $100 Sony Bloggie video recorder in picture mode after the battery went dead on my Canon G2.

The hood ornament was taken with the Canon and manipulated in Paint Shop.

Point being that the digital imaging products replicate in a few minutes or seconds what used to take hours and days in a dark room.

And JMHO, the smoothing is a little bit overdone. Could be just me...

I have the Athentech Perfectly Clear plug-in with Paint Shop. s Paint Shop also has a skin smoothing tool. I would think that just about every professionally taken image of a model, that goes into a magazine, is digitally retouched in some way...

I had a similar problem with a group of pictures I shot. I had changed my metering mode to center weighted rather than evaluative that breaks the image down into many sections...

Also what you are missing maybe is that the camera is all nice and fixed rigid on the tripod, but the moon itself is moving. I have my dad's old Questar telescope. He used it with a Nikon F?. The telescope is equipped with a sidereal clock so his time exposures of the moon were near perfectly in focus...

It's a nice picture to play with in Paint Shop...

The water coler effect you ended up with is nice...

I just thought of something. Why not try and straighten the image. It's a different take just for effect, but I didn't have to edit out the pipe. The pipe disappeared when it straightened. Neat.