It's the entire program. I'm working on a K-1 .dng file.
Example ... from the angle I was shooting, the pistol is not visible in the
original image. But the second pirate coming up behind the first to do him a
mischief was the whole theme of the image, so I needed to comp the pistol in.
I have other images where the pistol is visible, but the lighting is wrong and
the two pirates are too far apart. So I copied the pistol (with a lot of
transformation) onto a layer sandwiched between two copies of the base image.
Then I made a selection on the top layer to cut out a hole making the pistol
visible.
I used the polygonal lasso tool to outline the pistol. I should have used the
pen tool, but the delay is so long it's completely unusable.
I'd click a point & move the pointer a to click the next point ... wait and wait
and wait for Photoshop to show the selection line between the two points and
wait some more for the line to catch up with the pointer.
Repeat that process for each successive point. There are over a hundred points
in the selection (which I saved as a path so I don't have to go through that again).
For reference "wait and wait and wait" is about how much time as it takes to go
into the kitchen, get a cup of coffee and walk back to the desk where I do my
Photoshop work.
That much coffee would kill me, so I'm thinking about checking out Tolstoy's
"War and Peace" to read while I'm editing. If I'd had it for Monday night's
session, I'd be half way through by now.
On 4/25/2018 08:35, Bruce Walker wrote:
A very cinematic scene, John.
Have you tinkered with the Performances settings in the Preferences
menu? There are some good tutorial notes and videos in the Adobe help
site (and elsewhere) that explain the effects of these.
Which specific actions are slow, or is the entire app sluggish? I
usually find it's one or two specific filters or activities that are
really slow.
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 12:04 AM, John <sesso...@earthlink.net> wrote:
The PPNC Eastern Guild Seminar offered an opportunity to shoot with Pirate
reenactors.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/41645196632/lightbox/
K-1, 77 Limited. The really grungy, dark look is intentional. Taken inside
the "dungeon" at Fort Macon State Park, near where archeologists recovered
Blackbeard's ship.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/08/110829-blackbeard-shipwreck-pirates-archaeology-science/
https://tinyurl.com/BB-the-Pirate
I'm having trouble with Photoshop. It's just soooooooooooooo damn slow and I
don't understand why.
I've got a fast i7 processor, nVidia graphics processor, 24GB RAM and Solid
State drives (with a separate one for Photoshop's scratch disk). Photoshop
CS6 Extended 64-bit on Windows 7 64-bit.
Photoshop should scream on this machine. Instead I'm ready to scream at
Photoshop.
I am *NOT* installing Windoze10; I am *NOT* installing Lightroom; I am *NOT*
installing CC!
But I would welcome *helpful* suggestions.
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