What should I be doing?

Keeby

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I'm a total newbie to the world of DSLR's and photography. We've always tried to have decent cameras but generally of the point and shoot variety. Any pictures we've taken have been just as they were downloaded from the camera and considered good or bad from what we see on the screen.

I've now invested in Photoshop and am wondering what sort of thing I should be doing to my pics as a minimum?
 
Have you just got a dslr?, if so start there, i'd recommend going to your local college and trying to do a photography course or two, i suspect most of these would give a bit of time to the basics of post. Then maybe move onto PS courses..

PS can be a steep learning curve and it will be much easier if you get the basics down,
 
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Well it depends on your photos but I'd look at maybe adding a bit of saturation, ajust exposure,tweek shadows/highlighs, and add some sharpening. Some or all of these may help, but a lot depends on the original images.
 
It depends on what you want to see in your picture, as Wayne says sometimes just a tweek can make a lot of difference, with photoshop you can do just about anything. If you give permission for members to adjust, say, your Chatsworth photo or post it here then I am sure you will get a lot of different ideas. Mastering Photoshop is, I imagine a lifetimes work, I know I am always discovering new things I can do with it
 
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Have you just got a dslr?, if so start there, i'd recommend going to your local college and trying to do a photography course or two, i suspect most of these would give a bit of time to the basics of post. Then maybe move onto PS courses..

PS can be a steep learning curve and it will be much easier if you get the basics down,
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Yes, I do have a DSLR and have taken what I consider to be some relatively good pictures with it. However, it seems that very few pictures have no adjustment made to them and it's that point I'm not sure which adjustments I should be making or considering.
 
If you can, then make sure you shoot RAW, and then learn how to process the images in RAW using photoshop.
 
Keeby, I was in the same boat as you a few years ago, I had the camera and I had Photoshop.
I was learning the camera at the time and photoshop pulled alot of pics back for me, I know nothing of photoshop really but it does what I want it to.
Just try playing with it, I subscribed to "digital Photo" magazine as every month it gives good tutorials on photoshop, stuff we would like to do every day to our pics, alot of them I find informative others are a littel to advanced for me but still very hlepful.

spike
 
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