Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Playing with Photoshop CS5

So I have a trial version of Photoshop CS5 that I get to play around with.
I haven't worked with Photoshop is a few years so it is still pretty new to me. I selected a couple pictures to play with and then had to figure out how to compress them so that I could upload them to the interwebs.

This is a wonderful picture of my co-worker, hard at work as you can see. ;) 
This picture was actually taken with my old Minolta camera that is currently out of commission due to a broken advance lever. I really enjoyed using the Minolta because it is a film camera and it held more nostalgia, but in the end most of the pictures came out a bit grainy. I'm not sure if the graininess is due to the age of the camera (25+ years), the lack of skill on my part or the type of film I was using. I have some other pictures with the same subject and camera, I will have to find those and get them up here pronto! ;)

I went through it with the cloning tool and "covered" some of her blemishes. Then I played with some filters and colors. I wanted to put a watermark on it but Photoshop wanted me to use a third party company (Digimarc) and I wasn't quite comfortable doing that just yet. 

Enjoy XOXOXO

1 comment:

  1. I have an old Minolta too, with the same broken advance lever! My mom gave it to me and I loved it. Took the best pictures, but can't find anyone who knows how to fix it.

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