Greetings

[McGrandpa]

Not much going on here.   Hm.   I like "creative".   I think, for me anyway, #1 on the list of Workflow has to be Inspiration.  Gotta have the Want To sure.  So that coupled with some inspiring thing gets me looking for something to put it down on.  Paper, clay, sand, computer.   Ok got the PC running, so I use Photoshop some, Paint Shop Pro X a lot, Poser Pro 2014 or 11 a lot.  Also have a bunch of other 3D type programs.  Vue 6 Infinite I use a good bit too.   Also have a bunch of modelers which I need to get interested in using.
Lots of scenic stuff gets my attention.  With or without people or even animals.  But will have vegetation in it.
Well there's a start. 

[DarkAngel]

I was forced into computer use when daughter #1 started taking Graphic Arts right after high school. She had to have a ocmp for school and photoshop/poser so we got it for her...at that time PS was free with the mac...LOL

I would do house chores or be at work then when home would play on poser with book, yup self taught here too. then when she would get home from her class I would show her how to do things. she caught on quick. The next year I got her CS2 and a better computer so we have had the poor "smurf" since 1996...it sites in the other room ignored.

I ahve done the try it and see thing in PS too and even managed to mask the item once---that is the operative word...once, and no matter what I have not done it since...no idea why.

Now about your room in here...if you need to have sub categories ( not threads but other rooms for filing) for your room just give me a yell and I can set up as many as you need/named as you wish...like the freebie area where Aelin plops her freebies she finds.

[sidherose]

I also started with Poser 5 in 2005 but didn't have a machine capable of using it to it's capacity until about 2011. By then I had PP2010, and then got PP2012. As for Photoshop, I use CS5.

There is so much to learn in both Poser and Photoshop, I don't think it's really possible to be a 'master' at either of them...but there are some who come very close to that. Certainly not me.

My father was a commercial and graphic artist, so I grew up learning art from him. Largely introduced to the Old Masters, pre-Raphaelites, Surrealists, etc. Michaelangelo and...pinup artists like Vargas. Lol. My dad loved pinups.

Been painting (with arcrylics mostly) and drawing since I was a kid. Then spent about 43 years as a cartographer/draftsman, both manual and in MicroStation.

Good choice of topics! 

[thelufias]

Glad to see you up and running and happy to help.   Your subtopics will be placed as you show them and we'll add the two TBA's also.   
 

[dRaCX]

I would like all of you to participate. Let this be a place of discussion, not a place of arguments (I will not name names or places). And please donot make this place an app A vs app B dialogue.
Thank you

Couldn't agree more....no matter what name is used...a brush is a brush! As long as it serves it's master then that's all that matters.

Congrats on the room dude! Can't wait to see the convo's here...I never pass up a chance to learn new things. Plus...help "TL and J" hijack a thread. LOL

[JVRenderer]

When you want to discuss a subject, please start a new thread.

I have a few in mind, I will add as we move along.

1. Workflow
2. Composition 1 (general)
3. Composition 2 (lighting)
4. Posing
5. Rendering
6. Post work
7. TBA
8. TBA

I hope you get the idea

[JVRenderer]

where were we?

Okay.

I don't considered myself an artist. Everything I learned I learned from the many folks at Renderosity, RuntimeDNA, Daz.... and a few others that are no longer active. 

I would like to have a place where we can exchange ideas, tips and tricks on how to improve our artwork/doodles/renders/models...

I would like all of you to participate. Let this be a place of discussion, not a place of arguments (I will not name names or places). And please donot make this place an app A vs app B dialogue.

Thank you

[Jherrith]

Welcome indeed, we started with Poser 5 and have gone forward since then

Still use PhotoShop CS 02

[FrahHawk]

Well, hey ther!!! Welcome to your new room... 

[JVRenderer]

waves, hey there J and Rose