Fun with Photoshop

The photography course I just finished included a few weeks of playing in Photoshop, learning how to make our images really come alive. There are a few tricks I've enjoyed playing with, and I decided to turn my attention to an old picture of my parents' cat. He's a lovely creature, but the source image never really did him justice:


After a little playing, I've ended up with a picture that I think is much closer to what the cat actually looks like in real life.

Yes, it really is a photo

I was back out at Hog's Back last weekend and got a bunch of pictures. Unfortunately, between dirt on the lens and foolish shutter speed selection, very few turned out. This one suffered from dirt on the lens, but a few minutes in Photoshop sorted that out. In this particular shot, the slow shutter speed was deliberate, because I wanted to catch the motion of the water. Between that and a slight shake of my hand, it almost makes the whole thing look like a painting rather than a photo.