We spend a lot of time on the forum asking questions and helping each other out, quite rightly, as that is the purpose of the forum.
However, given the excellent range of skills across our forum users - how about a bit of fun and a chance to show off your Photoshop skills.
This is one of my favourite bits of coastline in the North East of England. I wonder what it might look like in the future though. With global warming will the sea rise or fall? Will the coast be developed , might the castle be restored/ or removed and replaced with something else?
Anything goes as long as it keeps to the forum rules on decency, copyright etc.
Everyone is welcome to have a go - whether you are a complete beginner or a Photoshop "Grand Master".
No prizes - just the chance to practice / show off or bring a bit of humour and fun!
Dave
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davescm wrote
Hi lc55472355 I still don't see your image? You need to be online (not email) to post an image. Don't worry about the lower resolution - post it anyway.
Incidentally to grab the original image, like the one I posted, from the forum - I usually right click it and then "Save picture As" and just save it to the PC then open it in Photoshop.
Dave
Thanks for encouraging me to post it, but I have just enough pride as a wannabe artist to not put it up when all the cheeky bits I put into it would not be discernible. 
I've been dragging and dropping, snipping, and copying and pasting off the internet forever. I used to use Save Picture As when nothing else would work, before I got the Snipping Tool a couple of years ago. I can't believe I forgot all about the SPA option! It gave me a 3.06MB image in place of the 413KB Snip!
When I first read the your challenge, I figured you all had some way to import a higher res of the image using some icon or trick or other provided by Adobe for the forum. It's my own fault for not rubbing my grey cells together for a minute or two and figuring it out instead of rushing to work on the poor copy!
lc55472355 wrote
However, I originally made the mistake of copying Dave's small image of the coast
Always click to expand forum images. Right click and copy grabs the full res even if it is much larger than the screen.
A good way to get images from a Photoshop composite is the select the top most layer, and add a copy merged layer (Shift Ctrl Alt e)
Then Ctrl A to select all, and Ctrl C to copy. Then paste into the thread.
If the the image over-spills the forum window, click to display the corner handles, and drag to downsize. But always wait a few seconds first to see if Jive does it automatically.
You mentioned the Windows Snipping Tool. GreenShot is like the Snipping Tool on steroids. You can add rectangles, circles, arrows, lines, obfuscate and all sorts. It makes life very easy for the forums regular posters. It has more functionality than other screen grabbers in that it freezes the screen including all cursors, although this does not work when some modifier keys are pressed.
Looking forward to seeing your beach shot 
Thanks, Trevor. I'll answer inline below in Bold.
Trevor.Dennis wrote
lc55472355 wrote
However, I originally made the mistake of copying Dave's small image of the coast
Always click to expand forum images. Right click and copy grabs the full res even if it is much larger than the screen.
A good way to get images from a Photoshop composite is the select the top most layer, and add a copy merged layer (Shift Ctrl Alt e)
Then Ctrl A to select all, and Ctrl C to copy. Then paste into the thread.
I've often made a flattened merged layer like this (after completing a project with what seems like a thousand layers, it just feels like insurance to produce one final layer with everything on it, if you know what I mean). I read that a merged layer is supposed to be slightly sharper than the layers composite, but I can't see the difference. Strange, but the Ps Copy command on my PC doesn't load the image onto the clipboard--I can't paste it outside Ps. Actually, the upload parameters Adobe gives are pretty generous, and if the image is too big I can always export it as a JPG and specify the image size. That is, when the image is a whole lot larger than 619 x 413 px! I always work with a resolution of 300 px/inch, and the smallest pieces I've produced are artist trading cards 2.5" x 3.5" at 750px x 1050px!
If the image over-spills the forum window, click to display the corner handles, and drag to downsize. But always wait a few seconds first to see if Jive does it automatically.
Cool. Good to know.
You mentioned the Windows Snipping Tool. GreenShot is like the Snipping Tool on steroids. You can add rectangles, circles, arrows, lines, obfuscate and all sorts. It makes life very easy for the forums regular posters. It has more functionality than other screen grabbers in that it freezes the screen including all cursors, although this does not work when some modifier keys are pressed.
You recommended GreenShot to me in your first message yesterday, so I went to their website, took a look, and downloaded it. Holy cow! I only tested it a couple times, but the GreenShot image files are 7.5 times larger than Snipping Tool's! I haven't known what I've been missing.
Looking forward to seeing your beach shot
If you're seriously curious to see it, message me an email or dropbox address and I'll send it to you. In the meantime, I've got some problems with the Ps 2018 brush management update that I need to post a shoutout for. I also need to see if I can change my screen ID to something more human. . . .
Thanks again for your aid!
Ann
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