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Sep. 18th, 2009 09:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI feel all sorts of cruddy tonight. And you know, it's not any kind of serious congestion, or sneezing, or body-aches, or anything like that. It's just this damn sore throat. Having a sore throat drives me crazy!
So I've been using my time at home to play with Photoshop a bit. I picked out a pictures (The New York City police memorial) and applied some of the short tutorials over here at Ken Rockwell's website. Handy stuff there.
I posted three versions of the image to Flickr just for example.
Version 1: unedited except for resizing.
Version 2: edited with Irfanview, which is what I've been using for years 'cause I've been too lazy to learn Photoshop. I bumped saturation and contrast a little and sharpened it a bit.
Version 3: messed with in Photoshop. I set the bright/dark levels, played with color balance, rotated it to make the memorial wall vertical (though in retrospect, I can't honestly remember if it was vertical in real life; I'm thinking not) and then sharpened it. I'm not totally sure which of the last two I prefer, but I do love the warming effect I can get playing with colors and the fact that I can rotate things to make them square. Nifty.
The tweaks show best if you look at them full-size.
I may put some more New York photos up tonight. I may go to bed. Who knows?
I've also wasted time looking at some web pages that suck. Oh dear. Oh dear. There's even a fannish one that's mad the, somewhat dubious, grade: The Omaha Science-fiction and Fantasty Festival: OSFest. I'm sure it's a nice convention and all. I mean really, most of them are lots of fun. Maybe it's just being done by an old-school web master who designs websites by typing up the HTML in notepad. Like me. (Of course, there are much worse, and much funnier, ones listed too.)
So I've been using my time at home to play with Photoshop a bit. I picked out a pictures (The New York City police memorial) and applied some of the short tutorials over here at Ken Rockwell's website. Handy stuff there.
I posted three versions of the image to Flickr just for example.
Version 1: unedited except for resizing.
Version 2: edited with Irfanview, which is what I've been using for years 'cause I've been too lazy to learn Photoshop. I bumped saturation and contrast a little and sharpened it a bit.
Version 3: messed with in Photoshop. I set the bright/dark levels, played with color balance, rotated it to make the memorial wall vertical (though in retrospect, I can't honestly remember if it was vertical in real life; I'm thinking not) and then sharpened it. I'm not totally sure which of the last two I prefer, but I do love the warming effect I can get playing with colors and the fact that I can rotate things to make them square. Nifty.
The tweaks show best if you look at them full-size.
I may put some more New York photos up tonight. I may go to bed. Who knows?
I've also wasted time looking at some web pages that suck. Oh dear. Oh dear. There's even a fannish one that's mad the, somewhat dubious, grade: The Omaha Science-fiction and Fantasty Festival: OSFest. I'm sure it's a nice convention and all. I mean really, most of them are lots of fun. Maybe it's just being done by an old-school web master who designs websites by typing up the HTML in notepad. Like me. (Of course, there are much worse, and much funnier, ones listed too.)
