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Updated on: 01 Aug 2016.

Treasure Chest, album created on 21 Jun 2013

Photos for the monthly themed Group 'A Treasure Hunt'

More Compositing, Backgrounds this time! - 8 years ago

Not convinced that your background does your image justice, change it! This is just one way of many, done in Pixlr the free java based editing suite. This method is a bit belt and braces but that is the nature of this editing suite... Photoshop, Paintshop pro and Gimp have far superior selection tools (which are very important for this particular challenge) but they are rather costly where pixlr is totally without cost :-) playing and making mistakes is the only way to learn!

Compositing images and making shadows
- 08 May 2015

Photo realistic compositing takes a little time and is a real skill, Iam not sure that I am all that clever at it but here is the way I go about it. I recently purchased a years subscription to Photoshop CC and am really pleased I did as I have been using Photoshop in various forms forever and a day! Suprisingly affordable when compared to buying the disc!! While this walk-thru is PS based all the tools and methods do crossover to the main bunch of editing suites although you might have to 'pl…
Cartoonify an image...
- 04 Sep 2014

I have been having some fun lately paying tribute to the great Gary Larsonand his 'Farside' cartoons. it is quite the photographic challenge to parody some of his creations but one of the simplest things I have discovered is to do the classic schoolboy gag of drawing in items that just shouldn't be there, like glasses, moustaches etc. My favourite and I think funniest cartoon addition is bulging cartoon eys... I swear, they make anything funny! Heres a 'How to..."