Dear Debbie. . .

An Unsavory Character

Dear Debbie,

I have a photo that was taken on a trip to a baseball game in Philadelphia. We just wanted a picture of the family, but this individual behind us made a very rude hand gesture! How can I get him out of the enclosed photo?

Sincerely,
Flabbergasted
Walnut, California

Announcing the "I'm a Better Graphic Designer Than Debbie Contest."

Dear Readers,

A few posts ago, I wrote about how to get "better-looking text" using Layer Styles. But according to a lot of the comments, I actually made the text look worse!

In honor of the fact that I'm a much better Photoshopper than I am a graphic designer, I hereby announce the Dear Debbie Blog's first contest: The "I'm a Better Graphic Designer Than Debbie Contest."

To win, redesign the Electric Fiction image that I made in my original post. I'll supply the photo, you supply the text. Since the object of this blog is to teach Photoshop, accompany your entry with simple steps explaining how you made it look so good. The best entry gets lots of recognition on the blog and wins a lightning fast SanDisk Extreme FireWire Reader. 

More details, and the original image, after the jump.

All the best,
Debbie

RAW Deal?

Dear Debbie,

I recently bought a Canon EOS 5D, and I'm thrilled with my new camera! But whenever I download the pictures taken in RAW, I can't open them in Photoshop CS. I've been searching the Adobe's website for the plug-in needed to see the RAW files, but with no success! Can you point me in the right direction?

Sincerely,
A RAW problem
Madrid, Spain