Anyone ever play with Photoshop?

Anyone ever play with Photoshop? There are endless possibilities. You can see how you would look like as buff guy, a sexy woman, or as a chick with a dick. Pick your pose and transform yourself into the scene. Can be very titillating!

Photoshop is a fantastic tool. Unfortunately they now require subscription to get the latest version. Makes it much more difficult to hack.

Gimp is the best alternative. its not great, compared to photoshop, but it is free.

People caim that Gimp can do everything photoshop does. I think that is mostly true, but what takes thirty seconds in Photoshop takes twenty minutes in Gimp. It is MUCH MUCH more difficult to use.

If you can afford the ten bucks a month, Photoshop is worth it.

One of the various non-subscription programs can be fun to play with.

And, i want to add that none of these programs are really very easy to use. They all take a long time to figure out. I have put in hundreds of hours with photoshop--i think--and i cant do everything you might want to do.

I can put clothes on pics of my wife. so take a nude and put on stockings and a dress. thats not too hard, but changing her body shape is very difficult.

Making her breasts look larger or smaller is much harder.

Photoshop has become way too complicated to use, not to mention expensive. Once a top-line prog starts with monthly payments for subscriptions, it's become too big for its britches and arrogant.

There are many alternatives which you can buy outright for very decent prices.

My longtime favorite has always been Paint Shop Pro. It started out as JASC Paint Shop Pro but now it is Corel Paint Shop Pro and gives Photoshop a run for the money in possibilities. If you can find an old version, like Paint Shop Pro 7, go for it. It's old (I think from 1995 or so) but does most basic functions well and quickly and is easy and intuitive to use. Otherwise the latest versions are still cheap to buy outright.

GIMP is often mentioned and for its price (free) very good indeed, but a little bit convoluted and complicated at times. Certainly not intuitive.

There is also Paint.Net (free) and various programs by InPixio. These too work well but are usually small and put together to do a limited number of things easily and well. For instance InPixio Maximiser enlarges images best I have ever encountered. Another InPixio program swaps backgrounds or erases objects easily and quickly. All InPixio programs are inexpensive, easy to figure out and not aimed at professionals like Photoshop.

Brings back old memories - my dad was a photographer and I remember - during the B&W days before natural color - watching him manipulate photos in the lab by “dodging” (covering the light over certain features during print exposure), over/under exposing and developing film. Sort of a primitive photoshop. Ansel Adams enhanced many of his photos in the lab.

I found some pictures of a nurse in a vintage dress (1950s) and would very much like to modify it to show her carrying a filled enema bag of the same vintage, by pasting in a bag picture, but don't have the Photoshop skills.

Any takers?

Post the pics on your wall and then people can see how difficult it looks.

Gwhap - Yeah, that's the way we used to do it….but for some reason referring to it as a “primitive” photoshop sort of rankles me. Dodging and burning to achieve sophisticated visual effects was Ansel Adams stock and trade. I'm sure there are still some videos of his techniques on YouTube…rather than an enlarger and associated equipment, he did it UNDER A BARE LIGHT BULB!!! Photoshop is great, no question, but Ansel Adams was Ansel Adams!!!

@agracier ….Some good advice there with the older programs.

@duhwizzard ”Primitive” was a poor choice of words. dodging and burning truly was an art form. Didn’t intend to belittle it or to rankle you, my apologies.

Here is a nurse photo with the dress/style of interest:

https://ibb.co/RpWB56y

And here is a bag pic that I think would go well:

https://ibb.co/BTWDhgG

It's a Rexall Roxbury, but any bag of similar vintage and appearance is fine.

I was of the understanding that the subscription based Adobe program was LightRoom (LR) and that PhotoShop (PS) was a stand alone purchasable App. I have used PhotoShop CS6 for years and it has all the tools anyone could wish to use and far more. Like @agracier I used Paintshop Pro in the past and it is a good program, but prefer PS.

@Doctor_Jack All are subscription, but you can subscribe to them individually or in packages. When I upgraded my MacBook earlier this year, I couldn’t install my CS4 package. Needing both Photoshop and Illustrator at the least, it was looking like a pricey problem. I ended up getting an old school email reinstated and was able to get the student price of around $20/month for a package. I was going to take an actual class if I had to, but ended up not needing to.

Again, just my opinion, but someone should not get a 12 year old version of photoshop and think that is as good as today's version. The latest subscription iteration of photoshop is light years better than Ps6. you just have to read the adobe press release when a new version comes out to see if the new features seem useful to you. It is true that Ps6 will do lots, I also used it. TWELVE years ago. It is nothing compared to the current photoshop.

So again, if you have ten bucks a month to spare, there is nothing that compares to Photoshop. That's why it cost so much.

And dont forget, PS is the professional industry standard.

That's why people don't say, "I'm gonna corel paintshop some six-pack abs on myself.

@XposeHer No doubt Photoshop is industry standard, and an older version won't have all the bells and whistles. Tech evolves so fast that often a few months or a year can make a noticeable difference.

That being said, it depends on what you're looking for and what your needs are. There's a vast difference between the requirements of a professional photog and someone who wants to mock up memes for fun. My Photoshop needs (or abilities perhaps) are usually limited to cropping and maybe slight color adjustments, usually for pics I've been given that need to “look nice” on a website. I'm far more capable with Illustrator, but most people don't have any idea of the differences, and Photoshop is a better general purpose app I think. Honestly, I've yet to open Lightroom, although feeling it out is on my to do list.

As a side note folks, an Adobe CC subscription gives you access to the mobile apps. Depending on your needs/uses this can be really handy. The Illustrator iPad app is great for sketching out a quick idea before it flies the coop and since it syncs files across devices, it's ready next time you open a computer to get to work.

@MittenKitten thanks for your comment and indeed both are now subscription apps. It has been a long time since I looked on the Adobe site as I am quite happy with my old copy of CS6 which actually cost me nothing and fulfils my needs. To be honest I doubt most users will ever even get to use CS6's capabilities anyway. I have no interest in paying Adobe $20 per month which will probably work out more in Europe anyway. I use CS6 primarily to work on 35mm slide or negative scanned material and it does a good job for me.

Hey i work with photoshop and lightroom, if anyone have any question or if need any photo editing just send me a message👍

I like Gimp myself. Especially when I fix Grand Children pictures.

Gwen

I like “CFNM” clothed female naked male (the naked male is me of course) I use a 1995 version of Photosuite (PS) Photosuite III and a free program from Canon came with a camera. No subscription There are many photos of the genre on line. I use PS to erase the male model and fix the background as best I can. I take photos of myself with digital camera in similar pose, then paste myself in. The results are only fair, but good enough for personal use I can add caption balloons like the comics to tell a story.

For more fun I substitute heads of female friends, so I can fantasize a friend seeing me naked

I use PS to erase the male model and fix the background as best I can. I take photos of myself with digital camera in similar pose, then paste myself in. The results are only fair, but good enough for personal use I can add caption balloons like the comics to tell a story.

For more fun I substitute heads of female friends, so I can fantasize a friend seeing me naked

That reminds me of imagery created by Dr. Jackle some 10 years and more ago. Lots of medfet situations with pasted on heads and bodies. Really lots of fun.

@bratwurst and @agracier i love that stuff. and i am about at the same level. i can put my wife in different public settings and the result is only so-so, but as brat said, good enough for personal use.

it really is tremendous fun. my wife has been naked in teh laundry mat, at the grocery store, and every motel hallway i have stayed in.

I use a bit of Photoshop for my album photos but I don't do any drastic changes like changing body proportions. I mostly do some cropping, contrast, color and sharpness adjustments to make it more readable and have better mood.

Microsoft used to have a nice one that was included with Windows about 20 years ago. It was perfect for dummies like me to be able to edit/resize and even equalize photos easily but they found they could make more money if the had a stand alone program to sell for a few hundred dollars. I bought it but never figured out how to use it well. I also bought NERO and Pinnacle with similar results and wallet reductions. So I gave up trying to do anything with my photos but I do miss being able to scan in color prints that have changed color with age and use that old MS program to correct the color.

@roscoe – newer photoshopes are super easy to use. if you dont mind the cost, really nothing beats photoshop. and it does not require an advanced degrees to figure it out anymore. it is pretty simple to use. correcting color from faded prints is super easy.

if you resent the monthly charge, gimp is free and will do most things that photoshp will do. it is, however, not at all intuitive. and even once you know how it works, what takes maybe three steps and less than three minutes with photoshop might take twenty steps and take an hour in gimp.

but again, it is free

Yes, I use Photoshop for all sorts of purposes. Most of the photos I've posted on Zity have been “digitally manipulated” with Photoshop to hopefully make them more interesting in some way. For Zity, I try to make photographs that are sensually suggestive without being overly explicit.

But I also use Photoshop to enhance other photos that I take for entirely non-sensual purposes.

I definitely agree that Photoshop (and similar software packages) are powerful and interesting with endless possibilities.

I'm a Photoshop user to process my personal photos (mostly when I travel). And I pay for it, around 12€/month if I recall. For this price, I also use LightRoom, which is a great tool, far simpler than Photoshop (they are additional, not concurrent).

Photoshop is probably the most powerful tool to process photos, but I agree it has became complicated and not user-friendly by the years. Hopefully, there are tons of tuto vids on YouTube !

I use a now antiquated program from MicroSoft called PhotoDraw2000 Version2. I paid $129 for the program back in 2000 and have found this program does everything I need. Much, much easier to master than Photoshop. I wish MicroSoft had kept this program, but they stopped supporting it by 2005. If you Google this program you will find there are many “old farts” like me who still use this great editing program.

All the photos I have posted in my albums were processed with this program.