A piece for Orlando

Re: A piece for Orlando

Dinyar Chavda

>You asked: Why can't I be content just making a candlestick or something?

Answer: You are a sick person. Get thee to the nearest shrink, and don't leave until you're cured. That way the rest of us won't be embarressed by what we bring to Orlando.

Re: A piece for Orlando

John Lucas

>Beautiful Keith. I hope to have photos of my Orlando pieces in a day or so. If you did make a candlestick it would be offcenter, carved etc. Your like me just can't stand to do something the easy way.

It looks like you need to use the tungsten setting on your digital camera. If you are then the lights are still to warm. Try some quartz work lights. There cheap and fairly close to the proper color temperature for the tungsten setting. If you don't want to go that route try using a better software package that will allow you to correct the color. I've played with adobe elements and it's really good. It has most of the controls that I have in Photoshop 7.

Re: A piece for Orlando

Keith Tompkins

>There must be something loose up there somewhere!

Re: A piece for Orlando

Keith Tompkins

>Hi John, I just got my first digital camera yesterday.....my first attempt. dadblasted contraption!

Re: A piece for Orlando

Dinyar Chavda

>While Elements 2 is an excellent program, reviews that I have read (plus my own experience---you can download both of these to try for a month or so) give a SLIGHT edge to Pain Shop Pro 8. It is a little less cluttered, and slightly more intuitive---however, both programs are excellent, and I have barely begun to scratch the surface of what they can do.

I don't know what Elements costs, but you can get Paint Shop from Costco.com (even if you are not a member) for around $54---I think the sale is still on.

Dinyar (I never met a deal I didn't like!)

Re: A piece for Orlando

JamieDonaldson

>Dinyar- you made a slight typo that expresses my frequent feelings about software-"Pain Shop!" Paint Shop Elements is a good program for most users, but nothing in the digital realm seems to be "intuitive" to the infrequent user. I hate having to carry instruction books all the time!

Re: A piece for Orlando

John Lucas

>Ditto Jamie. My memory just isn't good enough and I get very frustrated using any of the photo software I've tried. Intuitive just isn't in my computer dictionary. Thank god for a lathe to ease the frustration.