Photoshop Magic

Wow - time's been flying away! Work is happening on the front porch (you'll have to wait until it's all done to see pictures!) and I've just returned from a brain-frying 4 days of learning more photoshop skills. It seems like the more I learn, the more there is to learn! There's just so much that one needs to know to produce great images so it's off to WI PPA school I went. I was lucky to learn from Jim Buivid (Jim Buivid PhotoDesign - Grafton) who's a wizard at Photoshop! He's been doing this for a long time and it shows in his work. Gotta tell you, it'll take me a while to master all that he showed us.

So why Photoshop, you might ask? What ever happend to a great old fashion photograph - kind like Ansel Adams. What some people don't know about Ansel's work is that he manipulated his image in the darkroom for hours until he achieved the print that he envisioned when he made the original image. Today, we don't have to breathe in chemicals to do it. We just spend time on the computer. (Some of us spend a whole lot more time than others!)

So I took one of the images that I "thought" I was "done" with and applied some digital art techniques that Jim taught us. Here's the result. It's true, you can teach an old dog new tricks as long as you can get results like this!