One of Tulare County’s Pretty Places

Remember seeing this 16×20″ mess first layer?

I think it will be a good one. I combined about 4 photos on Photoshop Junior* to see if my version of this scene was better than reality and concluded that yes, indeedy it is, or it will be if I can execute it with excellence.

Let’s go!

I am choosing to not show the beginning photos for a couple of reasons.

  1. I don’t want any input as to whether or not I have chosen the correct elements in the correct sizes and placements. Sometimes I do want input; this time I do not; that could change. . .
  2. I want you all to judge the painting on its own merits rather than whether or not I can accurately copy a photograph.

Phooey. I can see 3 shapes that look wrong right now. “Wrong” in that they don’t look fully natural or believable, because I am only judging this painting of one of Tulare County’s pretty places on its own merits, not while looking at any photos.

*Photoshop Elements is the “easy” version of Photoshop.

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3 Comments

  1. I look forward to seeing the progress, but I’m interested in what you think about Photoshop Elements. I’m old enough to remember Photoshop Lite, which was very useful to me. Until they discontinued it. And, of course, interested in the price. TIA.

    • Sharon, I have to pay a yearly subscription to Adobe in order to have PSE. Infuriating, because I bought the program a number of years ago and it worked just fine, until it didn’t, because of continual computer updates, which were required in order to keep using Word, which requires a paid yearly subscription to Microsoft. The subscription mode of selling something is positively infuriating to this frugal chick. But PSE works well, especially if you have someone teach you to use it and keep copious notes to refer to since it isn’t intuitive in the slightest, and it works if you use it often enough to figure out where tools have been moved each time it is updated.

      • Hmmm, sounds like it’s not for me. I don’t like programs that are not intuitive. I’m more of a “trial and error” learner.

        I’m not very happy about subscription software either, but at least updates are pushed automatically which “can” be a good thing. Sometimes.

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