Should I Try Lomo?
Sep 29, 2008 Lomography, Photoshop, Photoshop Tutorials
While I am still thinking if I should try lomography, I tried editing some photos to make them look like lomo photos.
Edited photo is on the left.
I followed these steps which I got from Photoshop Tutorials.
Creating the vignette:
1. Open a photo to edit.
2. Follow the steps below according to the version of Photoshop:
* Choose Filter> Distort> Lens Correction.
* Inside the Lens Correction filter, adjust the settings in the Vignette section to create the vignette. (Amount is -100, Midpoint is +75}
Adjusting the color:
1. Inside the Channels pallete (Window> Channels), select the red channel.
2. With the red channel selected, use the Brightness/Contrast tool (Image> Adjustments> Brightness/Contrast) and increase the contrast. The higher you set the contrast, the stronger the color effect will be. I found that increasing the contrast by 50 produced the most realistic results.
3. Now select the green channel and use the Brightness/Contrast tool (Image> Adjustments> Brightness/Contrast) to increase the contrast by the same amount you did in the previous step.
4. Select back the RGB channel (Ctrl+~) to view the final results.
These are created at http://www.dumpr.net/lomo.php.
Weekend Snapshots.
Sep 29, 2008 Weekend Snapshots
My DS and his new book. Saturday was spent at home and Sunday was family day. We went to a chapel in Tagaytay and had a late lunch at Paseo De Santa Rosa.
See more weekend snapshots here.
Old Photos Converter.
Sep 27, 2008 Just For Fun
Instead of doing what I was supposed to do, I spent most of my PC time surfing and bloghopping. There are just too many nice blogs around. And I came across this. Another fun thing to do with your photos. Convert your new photos into vintage versions. Try it here. The site is in Japanese though, but it isn’t complicated. Have fun!
Free Handwritten Fonts.
I love fonts. I have hundreds of them. I came across these list of free handwritten fonts from Fuel Your Creativity. You can download these and more here. You can also find 5 more free font resources there.
Weekend Snapshot.
Sep 22, 2008 Weekend Snapshots
My son in serious play mode.
See more weekend snapshots here.
Free Photoshop Brushes.
Sep 20, 2008 Freebies, Photoshop
Found a very nice collection of photoshop brushes at myphotoshopbrushes.com. They also have patterns, tutorials and more photoshop stuff. And they are FREE!
High Quality Wordpress Themes.
Sep 20, 2008 Blog Stuff, Freebies, Wordpress
Enjoy these free professional wordpress themes from Smashing Magazine.
If you are into clean and simple themes like me, they have those, too.
This is the theme I used for my feels like home blog. I just changed the colors.
Photoshop Cheat Sheets.
Sep 9, 2008 Photoshop
Sharing some very useful Photoshop cheat sheets I stumbled upon online. These cheat sheets were intended for web designers but since most digiscrappers use Photoshop, I thought this will be useful.
You can download the sheets here.
Weekend Snapshots.
Sep 8, 2008 Weekend Snapshots
Bingo!
We treated the little boy to a visit in the perya near our place. It’s his first time to see a perya and had a grand time riding the super fast seatbelt-less carousel {the dadddy had to hold him}, and the not-so-smooth calesa ride {I really don’t know what it’s called, but the rides look like a calesa.}
More weekend snapshots here.
