Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Sassy Grass Green 1971 Cuda



My most recent project is adding mirror reflection of the beautiful 1971 Sassy Grass Green Cuda. I took picture of this Cuda with my favorite Tele-Zoom 70-200mm ƒ2.8 VR Nikkor Lens while it was on the patio table during afternoon sunshine. I used the Photoshop's pen tool to trace more accuracy the entire die cast car model and removed the unwanted background. I copied via layer and used the transform and flipped vertically to create a mirror reflection-like. The reflection was lightly touched with the gradient tool through the layer mask to make it bit ghost to look realistic. Photoshop did a great trick. (click the image for enlargement view)

Monday, October 15, 2007

Amsterdam, the Netherlands-an old church

Hi Friends,
My mother took this gorgeous artistic photo of an old church in Amsterdam on July 28th (last summer). I modified it with Photoshop's lens correction feature (Filter/Distort/Lens Correction) correcting vertical perspective of the church from mom's digital camera lens distortion. It's common thing on many architecture photos from cameras in general. I put high contrast and black & white filter to make the picture look stunning. Enjoy!

Original Image


Edited Image

Thursday, October 11, 2007

How to Create a Signature Stamp with Photoshop



Hello, as I mentioned earlier from my blog about a tutor video about how to create the signature stamp using the photoshop's brush preset to add your own signature on photos. I finally have a chance on creating a video. I hope that you learned something about the fastest and easiest way putting your signatures on your photography work as your own copyrights. Have fun viewing the video! Let me know if you have any problems viewing the Quicktime format video then I'll revise the video to be more friendlier for any computers in general. Note: I've used the awesome Wacom Intuos 3 pen tablet to give smooth writing-style signature compare on creating a cumsby zigzag signature from the mouse. For more informations about the pen tablet, go to www.wacom.com

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Kids at Stone Creek Campground near Idyllwild



We camped at Stone Creek near Idyllwild up in the mountains over the Columbus weekend. All of us had fun up there! I converted color into B&W and created borders from Photoshop. (click the thumbnail image for enlargement view).

Thursday, October 4, 2007

My Greatest Photography Portfolio



That is one of my greatest picture portfolio. I am gonna print and frame it on my wall. Thanks to my friends for their wonderful compliments that they absolutely love this gorgeous photography work. You see the black border with Satisfaction fonts. It was from Photoshop CS3 for Digital Photographers book (I strongly recommended you to buy that book if you have Photoshop CS3 software.) I paid 12 dollars on Satisfaction download from the MyFonts.com. You enjoy the picture. The non-fuel injection 1957 Bel-Air Convertible picture was taken at the car show in Riverside. (click image for enlargement view)