causes rats in laboratory cancer: Random Photos, Before and After Photoshop...

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Random Photos, Before and After Photoshop...

Zach's photo of a statue in Firenze

Storm moving off, Catalina Mountains, Tucson

Abe

edited to add...the before photos are not straight out of the camera. I generally mess with photos when I download them -- adjusting contrast and saturation and cropping and shadows and whatever...

3 comments:

Unknown9:04 AM
Are you starting with jpegs? What kind of camera do you use? Nice work, though. I LOVE Photoshop. I have CS2. I shot a Canon 30D - mostly I shoot to a RAW and then postprocess, but all of my England shots are jpeg. They really don't need much postprocessing.
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Anonymous10:44 AM
Wow, more reasons again. I so need to learn this. I guess I've been fairly oblivious to it all - I mean, I see gorgeous effects, but I just thought people had the most awesome cameras in the world and mad photography skills to the point of impossible. I really love, love, love the picture of Abe. What a sweetie pie. That storm shot and the "postprocessing" (just learned a new word) are beyond belief amazing. Wow. I splurged on the laptop, but I'll need to get a copy of Photoshop because suddenly I have to do this. You make it look so awesome and fun.
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Julie11:39 AM
Lou -- I have been using JPEG, as I had a point and shoot digital that didn't give me the RAW option. I just got an Olympus E410 digital SLR and I haven't really had the time or energy or concentration to start reading about RAW. However, I will have 12 days of driving to Anchorage. I think I will have the time then to read the camera guide. I find with the Olympus I do tend to do some contrast and level adjusting -- the photos have that gray cast to them. Picasa2 is great for that stuff.

Maggie -- postprocessing is your friend! You can download Picasa2 from Google for free, and it's very user-friendly and great for basics. Even just cropping can change a photo from a snapshot to a great shot. You can also download a free 30 day trial of Photoshop CS3 (which costs $650 -- ow!).

Oh, yeah, and Thanks you guys!
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Um...new obsession (HA) the elliptical trainer in the garage. I hate the thing, but today I burned 395 calories. I know. I so wanted to burn 5 more to make it an even 400, but then I would be at 50 minutes and 19 seconds, so I would have to make that round out to an even 51 minutes, and then the mileage could be rounded up to a more even number, and then the calories would be just a few away from 450, but then I could do just a few more seconds, then another few hundredths of a mile, and so on until finally I would fall off, hit my head, end up in the hospital with another nasty concussion, and gain weight because I am bedridden. It was so much easier to just burn the 395 calories.

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