How did you find it? How long before you felt you had a handle on it?

Many thanks.

I appreciate Mere Mortal’s mention of my online tutorial. Here’s the address:

http://www.jimsdigitaldiary.com/photoshop.html

But please note: It’s a very basic intro to PS for photographers.

How did I learn? Self taught for a couple of years before I took every course I could find at the local college. Then I was invited to teach it at the University – which I did for four years.

After that, continuing to learn, I began teaching to private seminars and individual students.

In other words, I’ve learned what I know by teaching … and – MOST IMPORTANT! – by doing!

I read the current literature. I discuss various processes with other photographers. And I do both photo restorations and custom imaging professionally.

I never expect to learn even half of what can be done with Photoshop. But that’s okay. I don’t need to. I only need to understand the basic premises as they apply to photography (since I have no interest in graphic design or photo manipulation), know the tools … and practice, practice, practice.

Windows XP -

1) To install a new font, download the desired font, and save it on your computer.
2) Click the Start menu, and then click Control Panel. Double-click Fonts, go to the File menu, and then click Install New Font.
3) Navigate to the location where you saved the downloaded or unzipped font (double-click to unzip a file).
4) In the List of Fonts box, click the font that you want to add, and then click OK.

Windows Vista -

1) Open Fonts: Click the Start button, click Control Panel, click
Appearance and Personalization, and then click Fonts.
2) Click File, and then click Install New Font.
3) If you don’t see the File menu, press ALT.
4) In the Add Fonts dialog box, under Drives, click the drive where the font that you want to install is located.
5) Under Folders, double-click the folder containing the fonts that you want to add.
6) Under List of fonts, click the font that you want to add, and then click Install.

Installing Fonts into Windows™: http://www.ascendercorp.com/support/windows/

See following pages for info on zipping/unzipping files:

How Do I Unzip a File in Windows XP? – http://consumerdocs.installshield.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=Q108326&sliceId=1

How Do I Unzip a File in Windows Vista -
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Zip-and-Unzip-In-Windows-Vista-43588.shtml

How To Unzip A File -
http://customize.org/help/How_To_Unzip_A_File

7-Zip: http://www.7-zip.org/

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA011276901033.aspx

Tip: if you don’t want to fully install the font, you can double click on the .ttf file on your desktop – Windows font viewer will open up. Keep the viewer open and launch a program like Word or Photoshop. The font will be available for you to use during that session.

Ron

Use your selection tool
Set the Feather to eg 25 (try diff setting till you find what your happy with)
Draw out your selection around one of the images you want to blend. Copy and Paste into your working image(background)

Do the same with other images you want to blend.
This gives that soft ‘feathery’ look to the images.

You can then use the Blend Mode on the layer pallette to help blend the images into the background eg ……Use the Hard Light option.

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