photoshop
Fixing Red Eye
Jan 20th
I can’t begin to explain how many times my favorite pictures have been ruined by red eye. New technologies make it really simple to fix most of the time, but sometimes these simple fixes leave a gray hollow look in the eye which isn’t much better. So today I decided to go in search of a tutorial that would completely eliminate the red eye and gray from a picture of my little one that was not fixed after two different red eye removers. As certain as I am that there are tutorials out there for this, I couldn’t find one for my version of Photoshop, so I created my own. By the way, this is only the second tutorial I have ever written and my first pdf so please let me know if I missed anything crucial in the process. Let me know what you think.
Theme Tweaking & Photoshop
Sep 10th
I can think of countless ways to waste time online, however this weekend my attention was drawn towards finding a new theme and tweaking it. Though I didn’t have a great reason for needing a new one, there were too many things wrong with the theme I had. It would not allow for anything additional in the header, it was not widget friendly, and every time I edited a post, I would have to fix many funky line changes that would appear. So I found a new theme and went to work on personalizing it for my own likes.
Part of this process was the time consuming, but well worthwhile, hunt for Photoshop tutorials. Having been in love with this software for the past 5 years, I can tell you there is always something new and fun that can be done with it. For example, popping a person or object off the page:
selectively coloring a person or object:
Framing a photo:
or in this case, making your pictures resemble those that came with the original theme:
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I am aware that I should be focusing more of my energy on content than appearance, but since I seem to be lacking in ideas, I thought I would update anyone stopping and let you know that I haven’t dropped off the planet.