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Sorry to scare visitors here with that face.
I have been using Photoshop for a few years now, paying $10 a month for a whole array of their programs from Bridge to Light Room to PS itself. It has always been my intention to do a deep dive and become proficient at the programs, but to date I’ve spend several hundred dollars to do some facial overlays by messing with opacity, and straightening faces for the purpose of face chops. Quite a waste of money. So two days ago I got hold of a training video, three hours long, and did the dive. It’s useful, as the photos we use are offered as a download so that we can work together. It requires two screens, one to watch and listen, the other to work along with the narrator.
It’s a very complicated program with many details, shortcuts, and features I don’t need. I decided as I stumbled through the training video that I would have to watch it three, maybe four times to become a little more skilled. I once considered auditing classes on the subject, but the closest that is available to is Boulder, and anyway, since masking began I don’t do any activity that might require it. Honestly, I was considering doing the Audubon Christmas Bird Count last December, but the organizer is a Covid Zealot. Once, before the insanity set in, we were on a bird outing on the South Platte, and I expressed skepticism about the virus, and he asked me if I was a scientist. I think he’s a bird brain.

