Happy 20th Birthday Adobe Photoshop!
As a long time user of Adobe Photoshop from my college days til now. I want to say a HAPPY BIRTHDAY ADOBE PHOTOSHOP!
Here’s an interview with John Knolls, one of the founder developer of the Photoshop software designers and photographers so rely on in their work.
My first foray into using the Photoshop was back when it was still in version 3.0. That was also the time when I first encountered this CPU known as the Mac or the one I used, the PowerPC. It was all part of my studies where I had to learn how to use it along with Adobe Illustrator for my graphic design assignments. I never used it though for photography purposes back then as we had to do it the old fashion way using the Dark Room where we learn how to develop the photos. So in essence, my first experience with Photoshop was more to using it to tweak and design stuff that is used for posters and all. Apart from that, my knowledge with Photoshop when it comes to image/photo manipulation is as good as zero. (more…)
We Built This City
The following series of photos, I decide to turn into a little short unprofessionally edited video. Instead of just a normal set, I decide to turn the photos into tilt-shift but due to the fact that I’m poor and don’t own such lens, I have to fake it all through photoshop. Here’s the end result.
What do you think? The photos was shot, edited and made into a movie over a period of 3 months. But if you were to calculate the hours spend, I only spend an hour each week I work on the photos. Hopefully I’ll be able to capture some using a proper tilt-shift lens and compare the result between one that is photoshopped and one that is straight off the camera.
Real or Fake?
Have a look at these photos, in your opinion before you scroll down past the images, tell me, do you think these images are of model sets or real construction vehicles?
So after the first photo, what do you think? (more…)
The Thai Buddhist Chetawan Temple
Made a trip to the Thai Buddhist Chetawan Temple on early Sunday morning with cwken as I wanted to increase more photos for my collection of places of worship series. Here are some of the photos I took, spend some time experimenting around with the photos on Photoshop and these are the results.
Creating Art through photography?
These sunset shots by the beach was shot along the same time as the lalang shots but instead of just posting up the photos as what I normally do, this time around, I tried to play around with photoshop, to see what kind of effect I can turn up with all those filters, plug-ins and actions. Here’s what I’ve gotten at.
Creating Art out of Photography?
These days, as you can see on my blog, I’ve been actively going around taking photos, basically of anything and everything that caught my attention.
Some of them nice, some of them not, some of them overly done, some of them… well, you get the idea. These are two photos I took recently, I kind of like it but the original was just a tad too …. plain for me. So I started playing around with them using photoshop and photomatix pro.
Interesting Photoshop Brushes
Was browsing the DeviantArt website to do some updating and came across some interesting brushes that could come in handy in upcoming work. Before proceeding further, here’s a quick ‘tip’ on how to install the brushes.
Place the *.abr files into:
Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop X\Presets\Brushes where X is the version number for your version of Photoshop.
Brushes created in Photoshop 7 or later will not work in earlier versions of Photoshop. Any Photoshop brushes should work in Photoshop 7 and later.
From the Brushes Palette in Photoshop, click the small arrow in the upper right corner of the palette, and choose load brushes. The brushes will be added to the current brushes.
Now, on to the photoshop brushes… (more…)
