Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 7:13 am
Hey there Greg! I wanted to make one last post to thank you for all that you have done to try and help me understand CM. I'll never get it, but that's no reflection on your teaching abilities, it's just that I am a beginner and CM is for advanced users.
I see that this is the last week of the class, and what this week is about isn't anything that I'd be interested in, so I decided not to bother with it. Oversaturation isn't what I am interested in, so this week's class isn't for me. :)
I just wanted to thank you for all of the extra time you've spent trying to help me understand CM. I do understand a little bit about CM, thanks to you, but I will never understand enough to use CM in any useful workflow.
CM may be a very useful tool for advanced users, but for a beginner, it is still a mystery. I guess I am too stupid to understand it. I prefer to use my own methods to work on pictures, and if I get a hard to adjust picture, then I 'll try CM to see if it can help me. I will always see CM as a last resort when I can't get the results I want with my own methods. CM is just too complicated for the average user, like myself. I can see that when I look at the questions that the others here have. CM is a very difficult program to understand, much less master.
I do think that I have reached my goal of understanding 1% of CM.....that is with the help of you Greg, and I thank you for working extra hard to get me to that point. I don't see where I can exceed that 1%, but that was the highest goal I was shooting for, so I guess I have achieved that goal.
I always work in RGB, and any other color space is foreign to me. I'd never use CMYK or whatever it is called, I'd never use HSB, and until now, I'd never use LAB. I just don't understand them enough to use them. I'll stick with RGB.
I would like to thank all of those who have also tried to help me. I do appreciate the time you took to make your posts. I know you wanted to help me and the others here, and that was very generous of you. Thank you.
One thing I think should be mentioned is that this class should be advertised as being for advanced users. It should be mentioned that beginners may experience a lot of difficulty if they take this class, so beginners should be aware that this class might not be for them. At least, that is what I felt this class entailed.
So, to all involved, I again thank you. Your efforts are not entirely in vain. I know I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer, so hopefully, the others in the class were able to learn more that me.
I prefer to edit pictures so that they look good to me, and CM doesn't follow that philosophy. CM works by correcting by numbers......something that is foreign to me. If it looks good, then I am satisfied.....as I know the recipient of the final picture will be, and I will always believe that. That is probably why CM and I don't get along very well. :) If it looks good, then that's enough for me. If a hue clock disagrees with me, so be it. I prefer what looks good.
Something I feel I should mention....I have used CM to try and edit some of my own pictures, and I didn't like the results. Because of that, I have no confidence in using CM, since I don't feel that the end results will be satisfactory. I found that I could do better using my own methods that didn't include CM, so I'll stick with my methods. It's the same old idea that you use what works for you and CM doesn't work that well for me. Of course, I don't understand CM that well, so that might be why I don't trust it. :)
Anyway, this post is getting too long so I'll just say, thanks again to everyone, and I appreciate all that you have done to help us beginners.
I see that this is the last week of the class, and what this week is about isn't anything that I'd be interested in, so I decided not to bother with it. Oversaturation isn't what I am interested in, so this week's class isn't for me. :)
I just wanted to thank you for all of the extra time you've spent trying to help me understand CM. I do understand a little bit about CM, thanks to you, but I will never understand enough to use CM in any useful workflow.
CM may be a very useful tool for advanced users, but for a beginner, it is still a mystery. I guess I am too stupid to understand it. I prefer to use my own methods to work on pictures, and if I get a hard to adjust picture, then I 'll try CM to see if it can help me. I will always see CM as a last resort when I can't get the results I want with my own methods. CM is just too complicated for the average user, like myself. I can see that when I look at the questions that the others here have. CM is a very difficult program to understand, much less master.
I do think that I have reached my goal of understanding 1% of CM.....that is with the help of you Greg, and I thank you for working extra hard to get me to that point. I don't see where I can exceed that 1%, but that was the highest goal I was shooting for, so I guess I have achieved that goal.
I always work in RGB, and any other color space is foreign to me. I'd never use CMYK or whatever it is called, I'd never use HSB, and until now, I'd never use LAB. I just don't understand them enough to use them. I'll stick with RGB.
I would like to thank all of those who have also tried to help me. I do appreciate the time you took to make your posts. I know you wanted to help me and the others here, and that was very generous of you. Thank you.
One thing I think should be mentioned is that this class should be advertised as being for advanced users. It should be mentioned that beginners may experience a lot of difficulty if they take this class, so beginners should be aware that this class might not be for them. At least, that is what I felt this class entailed.
So, to all involved, I again thank you. Your efforts are not entirely in vain. I know I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer, so hopefully, the others in the class were able to learn more that me.
I prefer to edit pictures so that they look good to me, and CM doesn't follow that philosophy. CM works by correcting by numbers......something that is foreign to me. If it looks good, then I am satisfied.....as I know the recipient of the final picture will be, and I will always believe that. That is probably why CM and I don't get along very well. :) If it looks good, then that's enough for me. If a hue clock disagrees with me, so be it. I prefer what looks good.
Something I feel I should mention....I have used CM to try and edit some of my own pictures, and I didn't like the results. Because of that, I have no confidence in using CM, since I don't feel that the end results will be satisfactory. I found that I could do better using my own methods that didn't include CM, so I'll stick with my methods. It's the same old idea that you use what works for you and CM doesn't work that well for me. Of course, I don't understand CM that well, so that might be why I don't trust it. :)
Anyway, this post is getting too long so I'll just say, thanks again to everyone, and I appreciate all that you have done to help us beginners.