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nasaid57 · 08-22-2008, 06:14 AM

Hey Folks,
I love learning new things. I am a fast learner and would love to learn how to crop and edit pictures. I am trying to do a funny pictures of a co-worker right now for his birthday. We tease him all the time that he looks like Harry and the Henderson.
I have tried to work with paint, and i am not good with it at all. I am looking forward to learning how you all do such good works with your photos. An old co worker of mine did very well with pictures but would not show me any thing. I am looking sooooooooooo foward to learning how to crop and paste and use two pictures to create one.

If anyone could please tell me where to go to learn and what program to best use for what i would like to do with my pictures, i would be forever grateful.

I look forward to hearing from anyone who like to help little old me learn. Oh and i am a 51 year old female and yes you can teach this old dog new tricks.

Thanks.
nasaid57

**Ace Bigalow** · 08-22-2008, 06:17 AM

hiya, welcome to the site.

TDM · 08-22-2008, 06:50 AM

hey welcome to chopz um i use photoshop cs3 but if u wanna post the picture or pm it to me and tell us or me what u want done with it then we would be happy to help

joshbond · 08-22-2008, 07:00 AM

Welcome to the site!

Pariah · 08-22-2008, 07:27 AM

Welcome to Photochopz

Photoshop CS3 would be your best choice for photo manipulation. If you don't feel like downloading anything quite that large (450+ Mb) then you may be interested in something smaller, such as Fireworks MX 2004 (~27Mb). Fireworks has far less of the features photoshop has, but retains most of the essentual tools you'll need. It's also set out in much the same way, enough so that a photoshop user could use it effectively, and with ease, right from the get go. From there, either play around with everything until you understand what it does, or learn about it on the internet.

http://www.soft32.com/download_351.html (Fireworks trial)
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/i...&promoid=BONQJ (Photoshop trial- requires creating a free adobe account)