Photoshop before Photoshop!

Here’s a photo I took 30 years ago. It was done by combining 2 slides. It would be trivial to create this effect in photoshop now but took ages 30 years ago.

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Oh God yes. Remember dodging and burning during printing? So much trial and error and wasted paper, which was expensive!

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Very cool!

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Hmm. . .

The Dark Night Twilight Enlightened Inner Lightening Seems Elusively Eerie, Jus Fascinating!.

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Could be an awesome album cover :slightly_smiling_face:

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That is so sick @everhopeful! You mustve been quite the photo editor, Im picturing you in a darkroom splicing photos together

Very cool, like @Schztuna said album cover material right there!

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Thanks for the compliments guys! You’ve made my day :blush:

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I agree. It’s weird that I’ve not thought of music in terms of album covers for years. I’ve been completely digital for that long.

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I usually use Spotify or other streaming services which show the cover. Its not the same but its still cool

Last hard copy album I bought was The Blueprint by Jay Z since he didnt have any of his stuff on SPotify but only shitty Tidal lol

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I don’t use Photoshop, too expensive. I use The GIMP.

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Agree that it’s too expensive, but there’s no other tool that comes close (and, yes, I know GIMP very well). My most used tools right now are Lightroom, Photoshop, Luminar, Topaz AI suite, and ON1 Effects.

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I remember Photoshop being around in the 1990’s and possibly the late 1980’s.

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I just googled it and you’re right.

Photoshop 1.0 was released on February 19, 1990, for Macintosh exclusively.

The only problem was there were no digital cameras !

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Well, nothing useful. I remember a Casio we had at a place I worked circa 1996 that took pictures in 640x480 and could only store 12 of them. Not especially helpful. You’d scan negs/prints and manipulate them back in the day.

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I remember processing film in photography class haha and that was in 2008. I wonder if they still teach this

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It’s shoppe’d :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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It is the Middle Ages…
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Thus!! 637636363636

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Honestly, if you can work out what that picture really means … No joke.

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