Another wet day here so I decided to do a very basic tutorial on masking in photoshop. Using a mask is how I remove unwanted texture from parts of an image, it’s a great way to do this as it’s fully reversible and adjustable.
Tex Box 2
Watching
Paul is having connection problems at the moment soĀ yet another photo from me here and one with a human subject for a change š This is the lovely Katiki beach adjacent to theĀ main highway north to Oamaru, it's a beautiful long golden beach and is one of the...
Blue Monday
It's been wet here today with a lot more predicted so it seemed a perfect opportunity to take some photos of this fading hydrangea bloom. Unusually for me I've only used a couple of textures on this one so the processing is fairly simple. Ming @ overlay 55% Fly edge...
Softly
I've been busy cataloguing my photos for the past few days; it's going to be a long job! I started off using AdobeBridge but someone suggested that Lightroom was the way to go. I've tried using Lightroom once before but gave up, preferring the extra control that...
red car – green car
Over on Flickr we have a surrealist image group calledĀ Man Ray In this group we run image contests, where a donated start-off image is used by everybody who enters, to be manipulated in a surreal way. Its a great way to flex your photoshop skills and learn from some...
Daisy had issues
The story came about with the bar code idea. Daisy is a radicalized cow, she always has issues and frequently stomps around the fields with slogans painted on her sides. Today's protest is not wanting to be just a number. Her long-suffering farmer owner loves to see...
Caught in the Lights
Something a bit different today! I produced this imageĀ for a challenge over at ourĀ Man Ray group on Flickr . The starting image was a photo of a French gatehouse or pigeonair provided by Paul. After a bit of thought I decided to do a night scene with a car on a...
Apples
These very small and very scruffy apples came from a roadside tree, I'd picked them hoping they'd be sour as I had intended making a savoury chilli jelly,Ā I discovered however thatĀ they're sweet with very tough skins....definitely not for eating but they made good...
Canal avenue
Having started this image months ago I abandoned it. Jill reminded me of it and so I reluctantly had another go! I used the original textured image and simply added more. It created this picture up on Fickr. Unfortunately the quality was too small as a 'keeper' being...
Power Line
Another one of my "out the car window"Ā shots where I've had to do a little "cleaning" of the pesky fence posts that appeared in the raw imageĀ -what would we do without photoshop š This was taken in the early evening light on our way home from visiting family in...