Just as I was getting used to playing with curves on Photoshop CS2 and finding the right blend to make the midtones stand out, Scott Kelby goes and shows me a simpler way to do it. No math involved, no shaping the right S-curve, and there’s even no necessary constant monitoring of the image to make sure every adjustment is [...]
What I learned at the CS3 Power Tour:
Side note: I learned that it’s really difficult to write the next installment for this series when you don’t know where in the world you left your seminar workbook.
Sorry about that. Excuse me while I turn my house upside down looking for the workbook.
In the meantime, I thought I heard someone mention Alfred [...]
Last night brought yet another gorgeous moon to the night sky. We were on our way home and I kept hoping it would stay high enough to be photographed from the porch. So once again, there I was on the front porch with cold hands and a runny nose trying to shoot a few pictures of the moon.
It had already [...]
What did you say? You were expecting actual news?
I blame the recent too-early-cause-it-ain’t-officially-winter-yet flurry action for the delay in posting this next segment. It made for great pictures, but not so great motivation to sit down and write. Also, I had too much hot chocolate yesterday.
But last night, I re-arranged my computer room to put my two machines closer to each other. And this morning, I hooked up [...]
This will be a quick photo post because it’s Monday and I have to get a jump on things before inertia sets in and this house gets declared a disaster area by Thursday.
I can’t believe it’s mid-November and the view from my bedroom window looked like this:
Last time I checked the weather, they said we would get some flurries. Sure [...]
Yesterday I posted these guitar photos:
Then Henrik, a new regular who wandered this way via that mention in Scott Kelby’s blog (thanks, Scott!), made this suggestion:
How about an experiment? I think the guitar looks better white than yellow, but I think it would pop even more if you kept the colour of the wall behind it (or tinted it in [...]
Some afternoons ago, I headed over to Guitar Center. Guess why. (If you didn’t guess “to look at guitars,” you’re either really paranoid and suspicious of rhetorical questions, or you’re on this page but not really paying attention to what you’re reading. If it’s the latter, then that makes two of us. I think we both need to take a [...]
Yesterday afternoon, after doing some music shopping with my son, an incredible sunset greeted us as we started driving home.
It was an awesome array of oranges and reds and yellows and blues just splashed all across the sky. Of course, the plethora of power lines along Route 46 just ruined the whole thing. But once we got on the interstate, [...]
