grandpapa
March 5th, 2009, 02:38 PM
I am a new suscriber to this forum and I hope you will allow me to participate in it.I am from Montreal ,Canada.I am a retired teacher and banker.I have been taking pictures for the past 40 years.I recently learned how to use a computer and switch from film to digital pictures about 3 years ago. I learned all that stuff all by myself wiht the help of a lot of books and also from a friendly technician a few times.I now use a PC with Vista Home Premium, Family edition, also a Canon Rebel XT with an EF-S 18-55 lens, along with a zoom Canon Ef 70-300mm 1:4-5.6 IS-USM, a Conon Speedlite 430 EXII and a brand new Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet ( 4x6 approx.).
I don't know how I missed you all but I just discoverd this forum in early February. I love su much that I suscribed after 5 days and I am trying to join you in thisforum today.
I have been pleasantly surprise with all those questions but mostly by the goodwill express by all who take the time to provide the asnwers to various problems. I hope I can join in and like a bunch of other people I will have a lot of questions but I hope one day to be able to participate in some answers, with time. You are doing a finejob with this forum and I wish to congratulate you all for doing so. It is really impressive to look at. I have been looking already at some 100 pages of questions and answers and I have found answers to some of my questions. You should know howver that I have to translate evreything to French.Most of the time it is not a big problem but when you «unsharp mask » tranlated in French, it gives « accentuation » which is also the traduction of «ehhance ». It is a little tricky once in a while. I hope you will all keep up with this tremendous job.I would like to ask you 2 questions to start with: 1) Is it possible to obtain a good 16x20 inches print from a 8 magapixels camera like my Rebel XT.Looking at Scott Kelby book on PSE 6, which I am using now, on page121 & 122 and title«Rule braking Resizing for Poster-Sized Prints » it seems possible.But in all the other books that I haveread so far, it seems to be impossible without a loss of quality ?
Question#2):Can somebody tell me where I can find the place in this forum to establish my signature at the end of this message.I have looked at the video showing how too do it, but so far under Settings and Options,I don't see Edit Signature.
Any help you could provide will be appreciated.
May I add a third question : I recently shot pictures in Raw for the first time.I learned yesterday, unless I misread, that there is a new converter for my Rebel and PSE 6 ? Can I start working on my pictures and later change the converter or should I wait for the new one before downloading my pictures.
Thank you all again and I hope to read a reply soon.
Grandpapa.
I don't know how I missed you all but I just discoverd this forum in early February. I love su much that I suscribed after 5 days and I am trying to join you in thisforum today.
I have been pleasantly surprise with all those questions but mostly by the goodwill express by all who take the time to provide the asnwers to various problems. I hope I can join in and like a bunch of other people I will have a lot of questions but I hope one day to be able to participate in some answers, with time. You are doing a finejob with this forum and I wish to congratulate you all for doing so. It is really impressive to look at. I have been looking already at some 100 pages of questions and answers and I have found answers to some of my questions. You should know howver that I have to translate evreything to French.Most of the time it is not a big problem but when you «unsharp mask » tranlated in French, it gives « accentuation » which is also the traduction of «ehhance ». It is a little tricky once in a while. I hope you will all keep up with this tremendous job.I would like to ask you 2 questions to start with: 1) Is it possible to obtain a good 16x20 inches print from a 8 magapixels camera like my Rebel XT.Looking at Scott Kelby book on PSE 6, which I am using now, on page121 & 122 and title«Rule braking Resizing for Poster-Sized Prints » it seems possible.But in all the other books that I haveread so far, it seems to be impossible without a loss of quality ?
Question#2):Can somebody tell me where I can find the place in this forum to establish my signature at the end of this message.I have looked at the video showing how too do it, but so far under Settings and Options,I don't see Edit Signature.
Any help you could provide will be appreciated.
May I add a third question : I recently shot pictures in Raw for the first time.I learned yesterday, unless I misread, that there is a new converter for my Rebel and PSE 6 ? Can I start working on my pictures and later change the converter or should I wait for the new one before downloading my pictures.
Thank you all again and I hope to read a reply soon.
Grandpapa.