The reason they are doing it is to send big a fuck you to photoshop, and yes thank you I will be purchasing it.

This is a fabulous chance to try Affinity, just too late for me as I recently purchased the suite, but did get an awesome deal on it, it’s worth having a look at. There’s a lot more to get you’re head around, but I really like it, especially the designer. Looking forward to the videos George, although I do still love my PSE, think I would use them for different things. So much to learn, and with retirement looming I’m going to have plenty to keep me busy. Thanks for all your hard work George 😊

Thank you George! This is one of the few programs I have not tried yet so I am very interested in learning what this is all about! I had wanted to get DXO back into the workflow but they are like $180 and will probably wait. I like to use the points system it has and their Silver Effects is just spectacular. Getting back on track, I am using gradients in about everything I do now days so if you could put that on the list for your Affinity videos I would appreciate that. I also would like to know what Designer and Publisher do? I am assuming they are similar to the Adobe products????? Again, thank you for all you do! Rich

$35 is lunch for two at a diner.

Thanks for the heads-up, George. A 6-month free trial: that is, indeed, insane (in a good way)!

Hi George, Thanks for your videos. I first came in to PSE in the early 2000s, upgraded a few times and more recently upgraded to PSE 2023. It seemed to me that with the emergence of Lightroom (which has practically swamped the editing market) several features were removed from PSE and given to LR. One such feature may have been the Luminance feature. Perhaps this has been replaced by a new feature called by a different name but doing the same thing. I can't tell.There also seemed to be other features removed from PSE, but I cannot recall precisely what, and shifted over to LR. Are you able to verify or advise? Cheers, Fred Jansohn

Why not just use Adobe Camera Raw ?

Thank you!

Thank you!

thanks George, for another great video!

Velmi skvělé tipy, která jsou k nezaplacení ok!

Thank you for your helpful videos.

Hello George, well done and probably the most requested help question I see on the camera side of the Photography blog world. Of course the answer to all of this is the use of light or flash can help, also shooting at the subject and amount of selection points but this is another discussion for another group. In the meantime, I find it easier to use this and also without a doubt, your workflow is the best! Thank you again for a great video! Rich

Great tips.

Nice

kept telling me something about opaque pixels?

Thank you so much for sharing this video. I did not know before a lot of effects(snow ,rain etc) could be achieved through brushes. As a design student this video helped me a lot .

Great video George, very helpful in keeping us up to speed with the various different ways we can do things. I’m still getting my head round resolutions/pictures coming in at different sizes and smart objects, but I’m getting there - might be a daft question, but is a smart object the same thing as a vector image? Thanks for all you do to teach us 😊

yea, I'm doing something right, but I learned that from you years ago!

ok, so once you do that what next to take the subject the only thing pasted in the background image? I don’t get it.

I'm not sure why it's not working for me, I can't even get the two documents beneath each other in the layers, only either one or the other...

Another great tutorial George Thank you.

Very good tutorial. Thank you a lot.

I just can't believe how prolific you are George. Thank you.

This is perfect. Thank you!

Thank you. Very useful tutorial!

Great tutorial, thank you!

Oh my god! This tutorial is a real masterpiece. Very inspiring! Here you can see, how good PSE is. It always depends on the artist and his capabilities.

we need more tutos about combination

Very good video. Thank you! Is it possible, to import extern profiles (.xmp) for the Raw Editor?

Amazing tutorial and absolutely brillant. Is it easier, to handle this result in Photoshop, or is it the same way? I am asking, because, there are a lot of steps.

Very useful training. Thank you so much!

Very good tutorial and additional training to the 2024 course. Thank you!

I totally agree with Kolorize. But, the skin is also smoothed and you look younger. It is a beauty retouch too. You have to know this.

Thank you. I didn't realise that you could do so much with Layer Masks. I'll need to go through this a few times and check out you Coach Program.

Great video, I use masks a lot and there is always something new to learn, or just be reminded of. Thanks George

Compliments George. Excellent treatise. Thank you 👍

Thanks for this video.

This is my favorite video, I can never remember how to use the mask, this was a very helpful tutorial, I got it saved on my computer. Thanks, George

I am a member of your channel but cannot find the pictures you use in your projects in order to download them and follow along.

Was this challenging photo to edit? Yes it was. Was it still a slopy job? Yes, kind of. I don't see point to using selection refinement when you already did selection by hand anyway. Maybe use pen tool, and you can do it in one go with then very minor adjustments, in this video you had to do selection basically 3 times over. Background look too sharp, use some, have completely different bokeh quality, but given how much background you had to begin with it doesn't look bad, maybe use some blur here and there mostly to soften hard bokeh edges so it looks better. It's sad Affinity don't have automatic subject selection still.

Hi. Does PS Elements 23 contain "Blend If" sliders? In either the main Elements program or in the ACR one? Also does either program use "Smart filters/layers? I am trying to get used to PSE23. I like it. But I'm not impressed by the ACR that comes with it. Could I upgrade the ACR only to a newer version?

Why is it so stupidly difficult to buy these products? It's literally easier to buy a pirate version than it is to find anyone actually selling the legit versions.

Harika! Thanks!

Helpful info, thanks!

Great useful video, as always. Thanks!

2024 worth the $70 upgrade from 2022?

Hi George, I’m sending you this question even though I think it was done with Affinity but may it was you because I do use Elements also. But…. Read on Hi, I’m at a lost. I’m looking for a video of a railroad track that had like bright streak of light going along each side of the track. Time of day night but the pic might have been edited for a night seen. I use to see it when searching on KZbin for Affinity but now I’ve tried everything and can’t find it. There is one close but not it. Do you know what I’m talking about and who did the video?????

Top! By the way, your training course 2024 is brilliant. Love it. Greetings from Germany

Hi George, love your factual approach to your videos. One feature you haven't mentioned is what I can only term Adobe spy-ware. Ive been using Elements for years and have recently purchased 2024. It seems there is no way to disabled Auto Creations! or actually anything in Media Analysis. First I was just annoyed but now I'm feeling my computer is permanently hacked and under observation by Adobe. Whenever one deactivates these - 'options' - when you leave preferences they just pop back up again. I deactivated it in Task Manager and that stays deactivated, but every time I open PSE 2024 the Welcome screen shows new edited photos. My concern goes further: I am predominantly a landscape, cityscape amateur photographer, but I also take family photos, particularly young grandchildren. I am 76 years old. My Catalogue has about 40,000 files, probably 95% aren't people files. The remaining 5% contain 100's of photos of children. The only files Adobe modifies are of the children, and once of a dog). Often very amateurishly done with hearts added, blur, changed sky etc. It gets worse: I don't use the so called 'Cloud', but recently when I logged into my account to try and find a solution (couldn't find one and got no answers that worked, to my query on the forum), I found all the edited photos on the Adobe website. They seem to have stolen my pics, not just edited them. And no option to delete them. I now use PSE offline, thinking this might solve the problem. Nope! 3 hours after shutting PSE down and going back online, up popped a notification saying 'You have new Auto Creations. Do you have a solution to this? I am in New Zealand by the way. Best to you and thanks for your efforts. Cheers