Results tagged “Photoshop” from The Path to Lost End

I know it's been a long time since we've seen some new pictures on this blog. Sorry, sorry, sorry! It's all my fault. You see...

I was reading about how it's good to take pictures in raw format with digital cameras since it gives you more editing capability while still keeping the quality very high. (A good thing, because our pictures tend to come out kinda dark at first. Probably because we keep taking them when we're inside. Probably because we're always inside. Probably because we're actually a family of vampires. Bet you didn't know that, huh. <grin>) So I spend about two weeks taking pictures using the .nef format of our Nikon, ONLY TO FIND the photoshop version we had won't convert them. <pout> So, therein started a journey of installing new software, dealing with the fact that it's been about 5 years since I bought my computer and technology has marched on in the meantime, and basically having everything crash. A few times. <sigh>

Well, I'm back up now -- mostly -- and I can finally access those pictures I took! Much rejoicing all around and now I need to actually start posting them.

I also designed a webpage for Salon Io. Feel free to look and tell me what you think. (And if you see typos -- let me know! We actually had the website up for about a week before a client pointed out that I'd put in the phone number as (201) instead of (210). My bad!)

And last, but not least, here's Kylie sleeping in her favorite place -- her swing.

One of my late-night hobbies is playing around with Adobe Photoshop. I like to find tutorials to play around with and see how the effects come out on my own photos. So here are some examples.

This is an example of the effect found in "The Bourne Identity" movie poster The picture is from April 27, 2007 in San Marcos. It's actually the first outing we took with Kylie Marie.

This tutorial was described as a high-contrast effect. I like the little bit of noise which gives it some texture. And of course, it's always nice to see pictures with my two favorite people in the world. <grin>

This is an example of me trying to do some corrections on a picture. I love the expression on Kylie's face in this photo but it had some problems. The first picture is how it came out originally -- very dark and with a serious color cast. The two pictures underneath are examples of corrections I did. The middle one is trying to get a natural look while the last is a little more arty.