While Mum has been sleeping and I have been feeling lousy with the cold of the year (!) I have been working through Kim's excellent Photoshop course. If you have missed out on this round you have another chance to do the course as Kim is running it again at the beginning of December so just click on Kim's button at the top of my right hand sidebar. It is a video based course and Kim keeps the videos short so they don't take forever to do and I have to say it's becoming more and more addictive.
To be fair to Kim I can't detail the steps I took but here are the results of my labours
Above is the original photograph and below the altered copy (click on the altered one to see the details). The aim was to change the image to black and white and then add adjustment layers to get the desired effect.
This was the original photograph of St Ives rooftops on which I altered the saturation and added adjustment layers. I then added a photograph of nets to which I applied more adjustment layers. I think I would have liked the net lines to be dark where they're light and vice versa so I need to have another play with this.
I have paid a very nominal $5 to have continuing access to the instructional videos and still have 3 more to work with including how to make brushes which I glimpsed today and which I have done a little of previously. There is still a mountain of stuff to learn but in terms of finding my way around Photoshop this course has been wonderful. I'm going to play some more!
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Some great results here! Looking forward to seeing you at K&S on Friday although we have a load of snow here.
You have done really well with your photos - they are impressive. Hope you enjoy the Harrogate show and that your cold is soon better. Horrid time of year everyone seems to be going down with something or other.
Your first efforts are impressive - enjoy your 'homework' and I hope you soon start feeling better. I'd be happy to have taken that first photo of yours - so much clarity in all layers of distance.
cooooolio :@}
These look great. Love the fishing nets on the rooftops. Hope your cold leaves soon, mine if finally in retreat. xox Corrine
Thank you Heather :) I have to give credit to my Panasonic Lumix camera that did all the focussing!
So love your photo's....as i love St Ives too.
Looks like you are doing really well, love all your images. Hope your mum is doing OK. Hugs x
Great results Julie. Hope that you managed to get to and from Harrogate safely and enjoyed the show.
Hi Julie - nice to catch up with you. Your photos are looking great - it really is addictive, this photo editing lark, isn't it? I have joined Kim's Test Kitchen for 4 months - can't get enough of it at the moment!!
Lovely pieces Julie...I especially like what you did with those houses.
Beautiful photos, great work! I am doing a photoshop class on line in Swedish. And it´s so fun !!! I´ll try this with texture to my photos soon I think !
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