Color Challenge Tuesday Orange - "TIGER LILY" ~ © Tiffany E. Reed
These beautiful flowers (Lilium lancifolium) grace our yard every year. I was always fascinated with these as a child, and still enjoy them very much today! If interested, you can read more about the Tiger Lily.
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Nice desaturation 😀
Thank you! 😊
Thank you for the resteem! 😊
Beautiful photo and amazing color @thekittygirl! May I ask what program you use to photo edit? I like your watermark/copyright logo design too... do you use the same program to add that?
Thank you for the comment on the photo! 😊
For editing, I use a program called PaintShopPro™, which I've had for 15 or 16 years. It was originally written by a company called Jasc®, but Corel® bought the software from Jasc® some years ago. I'm not sure if the latest Corel® versions are comparable to the old software I have or not, but some incarnation of it is still available today.
For a long time, I called it the "poor girl's photoshop" because the official PhotoShop™ software was selling for about $1000 when I bought this for $100. On the flip side, though, this software will handle vector graphics in addition to raster graphics, which PhotoShop™ will not do (or so I was told by a PhotoShop™ junkie) and one would also have to purchase something like Adobe® Illustrator™ in addition to PhotoShop™ to have the same capability. The PhotoShop™ junkie was rather impressed when he saw what this software does. Now, granted, there might be some things PhotoShop™ can do that this one won't, I have no idea because I've never been able to afford the pricier software.
It can do simple tasks, of course, such as crop, resize, lighten, darken, etc., but it will also handle more advanced tasks such as color channel work, histogram balancing, multiple layer functions, and many other things that I haven't even figured out yet. And yes, the watermark/copyright was added as separate vector layers overlaid onto the image, and I decrease/increase the opacity to coordinate with the photo. Any time I get a new computer, PaintShopPro™ is one of the first programs I load onto it, after my anti-virus software is set up!
Thank you for the explanation @thekittygirl... I'm on a limited budget myself, so that might be a program I could consider using.
You are most welcome! I pulled-up a ►search page on BING◄ so you can read more about it — reviews on PC Magazine and CNET, for instance. There is also a site there where one can supposedly download old versions of software, but I've never used it so I dunno if it is safe/legal or not. And then, of course, the official Corel® site is there, too, at the top!
Thanks for linking the search @thekittygirl! Looks like the current price for PSP 2018 is about $79... seems pretty reasonable compared to $1,000 for Photoshop.
You are welcome! I haven't priced PhotoShop recently, but someone told me the price dropped somewhat a few years ago. But I serious doubt it would be only $79!
I have heard a LOT of people talking about "Lightroom" to edit photos, so checking that out, too, might be worthwhile.
And if you do get PSP, let me know what you think about it!