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Recent content by Markie Jordan-Madden

  1. Markie Jordan-Madden

    Photoshop Layers Not Working Properly!

    Okay, I'm a dork. I figured it out, the "Auto Select" Layer box was checkmarked; I don't remember doing it before (or this time!) but that's the solution in case anyone else has a similar problem.
  2. Markie Jordan-Madden

    Photoshop Layers Not Working Properly!

    I have a weird situation. A Windows 10 Update fiasco somehow wiped Windows from my laptop. After many hours on tech chat, I finally got windows installed again, which means I lost ALL my files on my C drive, including several PSD's I was working on. Re-downloaded Photoshop today, but the layers...
  3. Markie Jordan-Madden

    Hummingbird Migration

    They are so pretty, and I'm glad to have a camera now that will capture some pictures of them. I've found if I put it into the Low Light setting, it snaps the shutter faster, and I can just hold down the button and it will snap repeated pics until I let go. Then I can go through those pics and...
  4. Markie Jordan-Madden

    Hummingbird Migration

    I'm trying, in vain, to capture what must be the high-ranking male. He's got a bright red throat, and he likes to hang out on my horse's hot wire fence (of course, since he's not grounded, it won't hurt him), but every time I get the camera out, he either flies away or the camera's auto focus...
  5. Markie Jordan-Madden

    Hummingbird Migration

    I'm guessing the hummingbird migration has begun, because I had 7 birds at one time fighting over my feeder yesterday! I just wanted to show these pictures, which by the way, are SOOC. I use a Canon Powershot SX400IS. I love these little birds! These were taken on Low Light setting, since that's...
  6. Markie Jordan-Madden

    Just Want to Say Thank You!

    In the past several days, maybe a week, I've learned so much about Photoshop, much more than I expected I would! I know how to download and install fonts, I've installed and used Pixel Squid which is freaking awesome! I can also make my own backgrounds (did a camo earlier), and I've learned how...
  7. Markie Jordan-Madden

    What Input Devices Do You Use?

    Thanks for the answer Hoogle, though most of that seems to be Greek to me! I'm not sure what all you guys use Photoshop for. In my case, I'm an author, so my main software is my writing program, Scrivener, which is also a RAM hog (why is it all the good stuff seems to be?). It's one of the...
  8. Markie Jordan-Madden

    My First Work with Photoshop CC

    So here's where I am now with the same cover. I haven't added any effects around the mask yet; I've concentrated heavily on blending and also removing some unfavorable things from the background (a couple of camels, a caravan of gypsies and a couple archaeologists, even an antenna on top of one...
  9. Markie Jordan-Madden

    What Input Devices Do You Use?

    My editor has a "touch pad" he uses with his laptop, and when the built in mouse pad on my old tablet was giving me issues, he suggested I get one. But I couldn't really afford it at the time and just ended up with a wireless mouse for a while. Then I graduated to the track ball and forgot about...
  10. Markie Jordan-Madden

    What Input Devices Do You Use?

    That's interesting, I would have thought a touch screen and precision stylus would work better than a mouse. What kind of mouse do you use, if not the built-in? I've found my track ball gives me more precision than a desktop mouse, and as I'm usually in my recliner rather than a desk anyway...
  11. Markie Jordan-Madden

    What Input Devices Do You Use?

    My laptop is, unfortunately, not a touch screen, though I imagine it would make doing some things in PS a little easier. I'm currently using a roller ball mouse rather than the built in. What do you use and how do you like it?
  12. Markie Jordan-Madden

    My First Work with Photoshop CC

    Hi Eggy! Nice to meet you. That is way cool, and I'm gonna check it out for sure! Sam, I'll look at those videos as soon as my internet rolls back over to high-speed; at the moment I'm lucky I can post here! LOL
  13. Markie Jordan-Madden

    My First Work with Photoshop CC

    Okay, so this is getting closer to what I envisioned for this project. Wish I had a nice gold pharaoh mask to work with; mine is from a photo of a sphinx at a ****** in Las Vegas, I think. Then again, the particular pharaoh who is the main character in the story never got a "proper" pharaoh...
  14. Markie Jordan-Madden

    My First Work with Photoshop CC

    Okay, wow, tell me how you did that last one? I've been playing with it trying to make it appear as if the pharaoh's head is peeking out between the two pyramids, so that my barely adequate painting skills aren't necessary to fill in the gap under the pharaoh's beard. I know how to make a layer...
  15. Markie Jordan-Madden

    First Before and After

    Thank you for your detailed answer, Tom! I wasn't intending to use this as a "final" finished product, since I'm just now learning how to PS. Mostly I just grabbed a pic that had people in it, and played around with settings and what I could do with it. The face sculpting thing I found purely by...
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