You had chance for a play yet?

Without being equally arrsey - no you didn't - you said:



Your method involves using some prog or other to resize the images before even opening up PS.

My method, you copy each image, and paste as a layer directly into PhotoPlus. You don't need to resize it in advance. When you paste it in, you can grab a corner and stretch it to whatever fits.


In PhotoPlus, just Export as a JPEG.

anyone got a Go Pro HD Hero 2?

after seeing some amazing skiing videos I've decided to get the kit for 3D imaging, hopefully it wont mainly consist of me falling over in 3D to a funky track! (I can't promise)

Nope, it is all done in Photoshop, takes a couple of minutes.

I have considered the GoPro HD system for fishing videos and screen grabs but have shoved it to the back of my wish-list as a "that would be cool" rather than "must have"

Why 3D?

I can't ever imagine viewing an amateur-shot 3D film for more than a few seconds without feeling nauseous

We've got some 3D and HD video from our last skiing trip and it looks brilliant, I won an ebay auction yesterday and saved about £80 on the list price so am quite happy (once it arrives!)

If you want it for fishing then the older GoPro (not the HD2) can be found for about £150 on ebay, but you'd need to make sure you got the waterproof mount as well.

Young Robin, today:



Older Robin, today:

My favourite bird



Seriously though, lovely shots

More from today:

Some poor quality snaps fro today.

Can you name the birds in this one:



Quite a rare bird (but locally common here):



A tough bird to see usually:

Looks like a Dunlin but it could be any of the sandpiper family

Middle picture is a Green Sandpiper.

Top picture (ignoring extreme bacground) - Teal, Common Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Lapwing.

Bottom one - Jack Snipe.

Didn't know there was a bird called that. Most of the pubs round here are named after birds (town planners loved themes by all accounts) and I thought the Jack Snipe was one of the few that wasn't. Well you learn something new everyday. Cheers.

A few pictures i took at a biking event called Hit The North held in Manchester

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I mentioned the Photo Zoom software I was trying out, well, I took the plunge, and hope you don't mind here's its effort at your robin, after a Curves boost. It can do better than this, but the file size gets bigger. I reckon it is a far better effort than any of my existing software, has a nice feel about it.

I aim to please! Jack Snipe are pretty hard to see normally. Well camouflaged and very secretive. The harsh weather means that they (and others) are more likely to come out into the open. It was for that reason I walked through the snow to go and look for them - paid off! Also saw a Water Rail, another bird that likes to keep hidden (although more often seen).

FA - intersting. Personally, I don't use editing software - just take things as they come out of the camera! The exception being I sometimes crop to make the image bigger - as for the Jack Snipe and Green Sandpiper. Invariably though, that's for unusual things as a record and more often than not taken from a distance in poor light (with ISO 6400) - so the enlarged image is often poor (sadly). Maybe I should splash out on a professional quality lens? However, if I has a couple of thousand quid to spare on hobbies, I would probably buy a telescope first.

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Quote ="Dally"FA - intersting. Personally, I don't use editing software - just take things as they come out of the camera! The exception being I sometimes crop to make the image bigger - as for the Jack Snipe and Green Sandpiper. Invariably though, that's for unusual things as a record and more often than not taken from a distance in poor light (with ISO 6400) - so the enlarged image is often poor (sadly). Maybe I should splash out on a professional quality lens? However, if I has a couple of thousand quid to spare on hobbies, I would probably buy a telescope first.'" Next time you're bored, download the trial version here: www.benvista.com/downloads It's the full version Pro v.4, but the results are watermarked. Have a play to see if you can improve on your enlargements and see what you think.

Quote ="Dally"FA - intersting. Personally, I don't use editing software - just take things as they come out of the camera! The exception being I sometimes crop to make the image bigger - as for the Jack Snipe and Green Sandpiper. Invariably though, that's for unusual things as a record and more often than not taken from a distance in poor light (with ISO 6400) - so the enlarged image is often poor (sadly). Maybe I should splash out on a professional quality lens? However, if I has a couple of thousand quid to spare on hobbies, I would probably buy a telescope first.'" Next time you're bored, download the trial version here: www.benvista.com/downloads It's the full version Pro v.4, but the results are watermarked. Have a play to see if you can improve on your enlargements and see what you think.

My handsome boy loving the snow!

he certainly is a magnificent looking beast.

I'm just a point-and-shoot snapper, don't understand 90% of the gubbins on this thread...

But this photographer is an artist in every sense of the word ... [urlhttp://art-profiles.com/albums/marshmarshall/1923-denatured-nature/albums.html#photoid=26854[/url

Off to Liverpool for a few days next weekend, anyone suggest any good places for taking some photos. Plan on jumping on the city tour bus and getting on and off at various points, Cavern, Albert Dock and waterfront and the cathedrals, plus hoping to get a 5/6pm trip on the Ferry on Sunday evening.

Any other ideas please?

PS we're going on train so no transport to drive out of Liverpool anywhere.

Get on the Ferry and take Liver Building from the water?

If you want to keep your camera... not in Liverpool