Anyone else like to Photoshop?

[Tamsin Secret]

I get real enjoyment from photoshoping myself into/onto photographs of GG's. As I don't get a great lot of time to dress and 'make up' it's a fantastic way to 'see how I would look' in various different outfits and settings.

Does anyone else do this or am I just a little crazy 😝

Miss Secret x

[Samm]

I downloaded the Mary Kay virtual makeover app. I was surprised with the results. It helped me decide on which wig style to get

[AnntoAnn]

I only use software to crop and cover up my tattoo the rest is warts and all. I have never touched up or changed the background.

[Kelly DeWinter]

Nope, No , Not me , I don't believe photoshop should ever be used to alter reality. LOL

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[Leslie Mary S]

I use Corel Paint Shop Pro X8.

[Jaylyn]

I've played around with photoshop. My favorite is an old program called Picture It. I think I learned it and everything it can do and haven't learned photoshop completely. Enjoy pretending with the program.

[Tracii G]

I have had a trial version but never got the hang of using it.
Any pic I used as a test I ended up messing up so bad I just quit fooling with it.
I may crop my pics to get the useless areas out of frame but thats it.
Nothing I post is photoshopped in any way.

[natalie edwards]

Something like this?

[docrobbysherry]

Very nice, Natalie. People have been telling me I need that for years! How long did it take u to get those results?

[Amelie]

I don't have photoshop but I can do stuff like this in Photobucket. 272462

[Wen4cd]

Gimp does me just as well for any image manipulation work. I think photoshop would be fine for pro photogs doing print work, but the Gimp does just about anything else just as well for stuff you are posting on the web.

I've never shopped my face onto another body, or warped any shapes on myself, but I've added filters, watermarks, and post lighting.

[Tamsin Secret]

Something like this?

Natalie, exactly that! It's so much fun!! Also I better say that I said Photoshop but meant it as a turn of phrase. I use a mobile phone picture editor called Pixlr. It's free and it's fantastic.

I would like to reiterate that I didn't mean I thought people used them for photo's on here to try and fool anyone just simply that it is an easy way for me to enjoy seeing myself in female form when I can't just go and dress myself.

Nothing beats the real thing 😝

P.s Kelly lol DT's pin up girl 😉

[Maria Blackwood]

Back in college I got into Photoshop at an 80% off student rate, and then just had to buy every other upgrade. I got pretty good at it. Sadly, I stopped upgrading with version 7, and hit the point of not eligible for upgrading. I have CS6 on my work laptop, but no mixing work and play is a rule.

Wed4cd mentioned Gimp which is good open source. If you have a Mac, take a look at Acorn. It's a great application from a small developer for a very cheap price. I like to support the little guys.

[Teresa]

Miss Secret,
I've had fun in the past with Photoshop and a package called RealDraw Pro, I don't do it as much now apart from trying to see what an outfit will look like but it the results can be interesting.




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[GretchenM]

Photoshop and similar programs are very useful for doing mock ups of how you would look with various wigs or makeup treatments. Amazing what you can do. Problem is, if I try to emulate what I can produce in Photoshop it never seems to come out that way unless I squint really small. I think transferring from the Photoshop "fantasy" to reality requires a few talents, and maybe quite a few talents, I don't seem to have. But it is fun to play with and kind of helps alleviate a bit of dysphoria. It is useful for that. Otherwise I think it is a colossal waste of time cause you ain't never gonna look like that. But it is a fun game and it can give you a few ideas for small touches that can make a difference in your look.

[Julie MA]

Kelly, that is a riot! 😁. Julie

[Leslie Mary S]

But Traci G, every mistake you make is a learning process. Now you have learned "Don't do that" the next time. sometimes even what you learned not to do might be what you need the next time. Keep plugging at it. (A Corel Paint Shop Pro advocate for over 40 years). The worse photo editor I have ever tried came with windows. Guess I don't know their key strokes.

[Tamsin Secret]

I absolutely agree it's great fun and the looks created are a far cry from reality. I'm just glad that I'm not the only one!

Teresa, those pics are great and exactly the sort of things I do!

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[Teresa]

Miss Secret,
Most of the pictures came from a Dutch site called LeatherDreams, it had hundreds of pages of some really nice stuff, I'm not sure what happened to it , maybe it touched on some copyright issues but it's closed down now.

I spent too long playing around with images in the past, it can become addictive , I have CDs full of some great outfits.

[CarlaWestin]

I just acquired Photoshop but haven't taken the time to check it out. I hear there's quite the learning curve.
We'll see. Wow Teresa! You really have it dialed in!

[Teresa]

Carla,
Most of the retouching was done in RealDraw Pro, it's far easier to work out how to blend images, I use photoshop to scale the images and do final alterations if I want to print them. Photoshop's learning curve is so steep, most of the stuff you may not use and it has the annoying habit of hiding the stuff you've just worked on .

Maybe one day I'll do the pose for real in Paris !!

[Leslie Mary S]

It was the learning curve back in the 80 and price tag that drove me to Paint Shop Pro. I have never had the desire to attach my face to someone Else's body. Instead I have sort of mastered what is referred to as "air Brushing' and tailoring a photo. I also have done extensive photo restorations and Colorization over the years. Really good work is when it is do and you can't tell it has been done. I need to dig back into my archives and see if I can find a sample.
I took one of the photos of one of my models and put my face over hers. Then did a little weight reduction on the body.
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I did all the photo changes in the last half hour.

[Tracii G]

Leslie Mary S you are soo right I should give it a go again.
Photo bucket used to have a decent editor where I could remove my huge belly by using the pinch button O M G I miss that option on photobucket

[Tamsin Secret]

Girls I did post a reply and post some photos I have done then about an hour later removed the post as I realised that they could appear elsewhere...
Being in the closet it's a risk I want to take but....

Thank you for sharing though it means a lot x
Miss S x

[Becky Blue]

I love being creative with some of my pics on photoshop, I would never use it to alter my profile pics etc, but its such fun being creative playing around various artistic effects. Sometimes just putting sepia tones on a picture makes it really great.

[~Joanne~]

I use paint shop pro quite a bit as i do imaging work for websites etc. I have PSP 8 (which is really old but still my favorite one to use), PSPX15, and the newest one PSPX19. There is a lot of things you can do with them but I mostly use it to sharpen a picture, adjust the lighting, or remove something I don't want seen (like a tag, string hanging, or a hole in my pantyhose LOL) I don't use it much to alter Me, the background, or anything else when It come to my pictures. Don't get me wrong, I will play with a lot of the features to see what could be done but I would never play them off as "Me".

[Leslie Mary S]

I use Paint Shop Pro (Now X8 and a little bit of X9). With photo restorations being my major emphasis. Just for all of us here I did this to my own photo. Now you realize that when working on a photo I increase the overall dots to 6,000 on the longest side. If I want super detail I use the 'Slicer' and divide the photo in to four section. I have to do this because of the fact I am using an older computer. after I slice I increas each quadrant to 6,000 on the long side, do my editing. Then I let the program knit the pieces back together and return it to the 6k dots long side. rarely do I have to slice and knit. mainly I did it to see what the difference would l like.
In the attached photo the sunburn on the left is sort of obvious. the unseen operations is the cropping and resizing, the selecting and deselecting (to make the pears not change color. I have brown eyes but here they are blue. the background was cropped, some of the stray hairs removed, others added. two facial blemishes removed. the mark left by a heart shaped sticker was added. Most of the details are very smal and that is the name of the game. Make a change and have it so others don't even notice the change.
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[Mayo]

I use it a fair bit to *ahem* slim down some of my, ah, 'curves'. I don't use it to paste my face on other people (because it's nothing to look at) but I have used it to feminize my own body. :o

[JenniferR771]

Oh yes! I use an older version of Serif Photo-plus. I am slowly learning all the features. I like to cut out my image and paste it onto another, better background. (This can be done in MS Paint, very easily.) I have photo projects where have pasted myself on top of dark clouds. Also I have put myself and some of my friends onto the red carpet in Hollywood, and posed myself as the weather girl or news reader on TV. Fun to smooth my face, slenderize my body by two dress sizes, and add cleavage.

[Territx]

Very funny Kelly DeWinter! I like it!!!

[Tamsin Secret]

Ok so I chose one with sun glasses, bit more of a disguise :heehee:

Model is Jessica Simpson I'm neck up :battingeyelashes:

I could so imagine going out in this 😍

[Ressie]

I took a photoshop class 20 years ago, and bought the program. I never updated it since because it was (and is) too expensive. I do editing with Gimp and Preview (both are free). But basic editing is all I do - remove red eye from flash, adjust color, exposure, contrast, cropping etc.

But, I thought this would be about taking photos of clothes while out shopping!

[Kelly DeWinter]

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I like photoshop because its quick and it makes things look natural. The only question i have is who uses a land line anymore ?