I've spent the day using Photoshop. I like using Photoshop. You can blend away blemishes, a person you don't like, or even an errant finger in the corner of a picture. If you get going, it can look more like a painting than a photo.
Mike said I shouldn't add any zits to anyone's faces. Bummer. That would have been fun, just to add a couple of red dots and some shine on a forehead. I'd only do it to the bitchy ones. I actually think I could have carried that off. What I learned was that if you zoom in closely enough, you have control of each pixel. That was so cool.
Just watch the red-eye reduction feature, though. In one shot, the guy's eyes were at an angle and the red-eye feature changed red from his lips into dark grey! Then, I got to playing with that little bucket toy, where you can pour paint into an area. That went totally wonky. I lost nearly half a woman's face to that because it was in shadow and happened to be the same value as what I intended to change. Value is a funny thing, isn't it. You can put a hue next to two very different values and make it look totally different. It's the difference in value of the neighboring colors that counts.
Blah, blah, blah.
I think my cat just threw up. I have to go now. I'm busy cleaning up hairballs and adding zits to shiny faces in Photoshop.
Thank you for listening, jules
Mike said I shouldn't add any zits to anyone's faces. Bummer. That would have been fun, just to add a couple of red dots and some shine on a forehead. I'd only do it to the bitchy ones. I actually think I could have carried that off. What I learned was that if you zoom in closely enough, you have control of each pixel. That was so cool.
Just watch the red-eye reduction feature, though. In one shot, the guy's eyes were at an angle and the red-eye feature changed red from his lips into dark grey! Then, I got to playing with that little bucket toy, where you can pour paint into an area. That went totally wonky. I lost nearly half a woman's face to that because it was in shadow and happened to be the same value as what I intended to change. Value is a funny thing, isn't it. You can put a hue next to two very different values and make it look totally different. It's the difference in value of the neighboring colors that counts.
Blah, blah, blah.
I think my cat just threw up. I have to go now. I'm busy cleaning up hairballs and adding zits to shiny faces in Photoshop.
Thank you for listening, jules
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