Digital Photography Ideas

Friday, April 25, 2008

Using the Warp Tool in Photoshop

Hi All,

I created an image from a digital photograph in Painter and Photoshop. I was almost done, but didn't like the clouds -- they were like a bull's eye in the center of the image.

I came up with a simple solutions so I didn't have to start all over.

This is the finished piece and the sequence below it shows the transition:

Abiquiu, New Mexico

I began with this image:

I painted the photograph in Corel painter and it looked like this:

The image below shows..

... the next step.I moved it into photoshop and brightened it up with one filter and and color adjustments. Wow, I don't have to be an expert in Painter to achieve the paintings I want. But the center of the sky looked like a bull's eye. I didn't want to start all over again. That's when I thought of the warping tool.

I selected the sky and made it into a separate layer and placed the warping tool over it. Then I warped the clouds over to the right.

Pretty cool, huh?

If one person writes and requests a video. I will create a post a video version of this post.

write to on this blogger or ruth@mydigitalphotographytips.com

Thanks for reading my blog.

Ruth

in Santa Fe, NM

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Thursday, February 28, 2008

Photography Series Ideas

You probably have a photography series idea and don't even realize it. You have a visual series wrapped up in your dreams. Some people have recurring dreams and those are easy to remember. Others may have to quickly jot the dream down in the morning before it's forgotten. Ask someone what they dreamt about recently and that might help you to remember yours.

Why do dreams make for a good digital photography series?
They are unique, personal, abstract and visual.

Dreams are open to artistic interpretation. They can be hazy, incomplete, enigmatic, sensual and striking in the subliminal way others will relate to them.

Think of the dream as 5-10 still shots that tell a story. A story so personal you will learn about yourself in its transformation to photographs. A story so personal you may be afraid to tell--that's the one we want to know.

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost." – Martha Graham

Thanks for visiting my blog for our success,
Ruth

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Monday, February 11, 2008

Old Idea for New Digital Images

Hi Everyone,

Just this week I was asked to submit a portfolio of my landscapes to a New York city gallery. My favorite subjects within landscapes are the skies and tremendous cloud formations here in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Since the gallery wants to see everything I have it was important to me to have continuity with the images I took over several months and several locations. I just don't want the buyer to purchase one. I want to sell a series.
I thought I would try adding a sepia tone to all the landscapes I have not previously shown. Here are the before images:

And here are the sepia toned after images.

the finished size of the images are 25 inches x 17 inches.
there is no cutting and pasting involved. I did clean up a few signs and removed a house if it distracted as you can see in the first image.
any comments or questions reply to this blog.

How did I do it?

In Adobe Photoshop open your image.
Go to Image then Adjust then Desaturate
Next Go to Image then Adjust then Variations.
Move the Fine<.....>Coarse slider to the left -- one notch from the middle.
Click on more yellow once.
Click on more red once.
Click OK.

I found a few ways to bump up the image before turning to sepia tone.
I'll be making a short video of how I did that for my subscribers--for free.
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They cover different digital photography ideas--take what you need and delete the rest.
~Ruth

P.S.
I saw this camera for $59.97. It's a Norcent DCC-725 Digital Camera - 7.0 Megapixel, 3x Optical Zoom, 4x Digital Zoom, 2.5" LCD.
I have never seen a 7.0 megapixel camera at this low of a price.
Now I can keep an extra camera in my the trunk of my car for those unexpected kodak moments!