Cynthia124
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Hi, to start with but not go on for too long, I have been an artist all my life and have painted mostly with oils but in the last years have also rediscovered watercolors & pastels. However, the real reason I am writing to all you knowledgeable 'gurus' is that I have really simple questions about Photoshop. I subscribe to it - so pay monthly & it's updated - CC14. I first became really addicted
to it some 18 years ago, when I was 'stuck' with painting, I would also just fool around and doodle/greeting cards. Then came the scanner, and Photoshop to improve even more the colors especially and find also great freedom using the 'tools' that I also got, e.g.: Wacom tablet and Intuos pen. I am back to being 'stuck' after health issues, and so after a year not being able more or less to do
my art, got my Photoshop up and running and feel motivated to try again to fix up the designs I've done in the past 15+ years…and send, (again) to Greeting Card companies.
I was published some 19 yrs ago by Marcel Schurman - 5yr contract, 3 designs were printed. But Lyme Disease cut that journey down to the quick as well.
Now I am back and here is what I feel I need to know in order to go on and be productive this time around. The designs are whimsical, might be even thought of as Disney-esque. I usually have many many layers as I go along, fixing and changing whatever it is until the final ….'save' the design is 'ready'……however, when I enlarge the design, say of Bluebirds, one is an artist, so the background
might be fields of flowers, trees, and then the star of the card….the Bluebird. When I ENGLARGE it to perhaps - outline something, or just generally…checking it: the colors are lumpy and often
the black finest line #1, may be 'off' just a teeny bit. I do go over and make those corrections but today working on a Valentine's Day card, with hundreds of hearts that are flying off in the air,
the colors are again, not solid like concrete they are as if they were rained on ? but not splatter. this must not be unusual……? However, what I don't know is: when sending a design to a company
they will send to a prater……..does it spoil the printing if the colors are like this? should I go over each and every little squiggle ? One does NOT see anything wrong with the colors when it is
NOT enlarged - and I mean enlarged till one has a grid. That is the 1st question I'd love to have a reply to ASAP !!!!
Next: the layers……..so I save what I am creating as I go along…..often that can mean up to 20 'layers'…….do I then just delete all the layers up to #19 and then save the final ? and then JPEG it ?
I see options to - flatten the image for example. Why would one do that ? So that's the 2nd big/question !!!
And for right now, that's all. My apology for speaking in very basic terms, since I don't know any 'high tech' way to ask nor will I be able for sure to understand any, 'high tech reply' !!
I am a senior now 70+ yrs young.
I do have an art show coming up in April, of my watercolors and pastels. However, these 'designs' I find really FUN so hope to know what I should have years n'years ago.
NAMASTE - many thanks to whoever it is takes a bite of this one !
Cynthia124
to it some 18 years ago, when I was 'stuck' with painting, I would also just fool around and doodle/greeting cards. Then came the scanner, and Photoshop to improve even more the colors especially and find also great freedom using the 'tools' that I also got, e.g.: Wacom tablet and Intuos pen. I am back to being 'stuck' after health issues, and so after a year not being able more or less to do
my art, got my Photoshop up and running and feel motivated to try again to fix up the designs I've done in the past 15+ years…and send, (again) to Greeting Card companies.
I was published some 19 yrs ago by Marcel Schurman - 5yr contract, 3 designs were printed. But Lyme Disease cut that journey down to the quick as well.
Now I am back and here is what I feel I need to know in order to go on and be productive this time around. The designs are whimsical, might be even thought of as Disney-esque. I usually have many many layers as I go along, fixing and changing whatever it is until the final ….'save' the design is 'ready'……however, when I enlarge the design, say of Bluebirds, one is an artist, so the background
might be fields of flowers, trees, and then the star of the card….the Bluebird. When I ENGLARGE it to perhaps - outline something, or just generally…checking it: the colors are lumpy and often
the black finest line #1, may be 'off' just a teeny bit. I do go over and make those corrections but today working on a Valentine's Day card, with hundreds of hearts that are flying off in the air,
the colors are again, not solid like concrete they are as if they were rained on ? but not splatter. this must not be unusual……? However, what I don't know is: when sending a design to a company
they will send to a prater……..does it spoil the printing if the colors are like this? should I go over each and every little squiggle ? One does NOT see anything wrong with the colors when it is
NOT enlarged - and I mean enlarged till one has a grid. That is the 1st question I'd love to have a reply to ASAP !!!!
Next: the layers……..so I save what I am creating as I go along…..often that can mean up to 20 'layers'…….do I then just delete all the layers up to #19 and then save the final ? and then JPEG it ?
I see options to - flatten the image for example. Why would one do that ? So that's the 2nd big/question !!!
And for right now, that's all. My apology for speaking in very basic terms, since I don't know any 'high tech' way to ask nor will I be able for sure to understand any, 'high tech reply' !!
I am a senior now 70+ yrs young.
I do have an art show coming up in April, of my watercolors and pastels. However, these 'designs' I find really FUN so hope to know what I should have years n'years ago.
NAMASTE - many thanks to whoever it is takes a bite of this one !
Cynthia124
