Blog Creation

I created this blog to track my progress in the DM/IS10C Photoshop class. 

I am 58, French ( nobody's perfect..), I moved recently to California. I am an electronics engineer.

I was very much into photography as a student ( the kind you do in dark rooms, seems 100 years ago…), won few contests, was even offered a job as a product photographer for one of the main advertising agency in Paris but was not confident enough to take the plunge so I chose the "easy" career path as an engineer, stopped photography completely  ( and destroyed my thousands of pictures!) and came back to it about 15 years ago.

I have been using photoshop on and off since version 2 mainly for photo retouch at work for presentations ( simple jobs) and more recently as a hobby, but always in a simplistic way, like the people who use Word like a typewriter not understanding the power of styles. I am comfortable with the basic stuff and I can achieve a lot but my efficiency is minimum. I am interested mainly in the methodologies (the right use of adjustment layers, masks , channels, what about blending modes…) and mixing images with vector based objects ( text or drawing). I am also very interested in understanding how to have an efficient workflow ( bridge, RAW editor, back up, color calibration especially in the printing environment ) I use additional tools out of photoshop like HDR, focus stacks, panorama…

here I add one of my pictures to test picture integration in the post.

OK it seems to work. that would be a "before" picture

and this would be the "after" picture