I prefer to take full color pics and desaturate them in Photoshop (or iPhoto) because you don't really get the same advantages with digital (unless it's a seriously high-end camera) as you do with b/w film
Scott Kelby's books on Photoshop and CS techniques are really good and really easy to follow (although he tries WAY too hard to be funny, and he SO is NOT, so I just try to ignore all that). My Photoshopping has improved about 500% since I got one of his books.
Anyway, he has a whole section on how to make a color photo B/W, and says that just clicking "Desaturate" yields a kind of flat, blah picture.
This is why I don't read/watch the news. Most of it just makes me so ill and furious with our world.
After vacation, I realized that I totally need to take a break from the news, because it stresses me out way too much.
(I also realized that I need to go to bed earlier, because I simply need more sleep. This would work if I didn't live with a man who will follow me into the bedroom and then tell me a long long LONG story about how the Weights & Measures inspectors came out to inspect his company's scale, but then ended up NOT inspecting it. I mean, I want to be Supportive Girlfriend, but do you need to tell me a non-story at midnight when you know I need to go to sleep?)
(Seriously, I was IN BED, under the covers, and he came in and sat down on my side of the bed and started in with "So the inspectors from Weights & Measures showed up today...." I love him, but can I just say how much I *don't* give a shit about Weights & Measures?)
(Anyway, the point is, I need more sleep, and apparently also an air horn to enforce my bedtime.)
Anyway, he has a whole section on how to make a color photo B/W, and says that just clicking "Desaturate" yields a kind of flat, blah picture.
Yes, but it is a starting point. Playing with brightness and contrast and a few other tools helps, too.
just clicking "Desaturate" yields a kind of flat, blah picture.
Yes, absolutely - I meant "desaturate" as in "take the color out (and turn black & white)," not "click the Desaturate" button."
Oh lordy.
Someone made the following video for a woman named "April" interpreting Joe Cocker singing "A Little Help from My Friends" at Woodstock.
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So...wrong. But funny.
Heaven is just a funky moose.
i'm feeling extremely unmotivated today to do anything resembling work. i think i'm rebelling because the past two days have been hell. apparently our customers didn't get the memo that this is supposed to be a slow week.
I call Target "The $100 Store" because I can't seem to manage to walk out without spending $100.
i'm so glad this affliction isn't just mine. i'm always amazed when i walk out of there spending less. that store is my crack.
congrats, Glam!!
apparently our customers didn't get the memo that this is supposed to be a slow week.
Neither did ours! AIFA! (We've replaced our usual Great with Annoying, let's see what happens!)
what's a good book for a 1 year-old that they probably don't have already?
Alphabatics
(Suse is my aunt, so I am a little biased, but it's still a cool book)
just clicking "Desaturate" yields a kind of flat, blah picture.
Yes, absolutely - I meant "desaturate" as in "take the color out (and turn black & white)," not "click the Desaturate" button."
See, I had NO idea that there were ways to make a color photo into B/W other than the Desaturate button, let alone that the other ways can yield a much richer B/W picture. It's so nifty, all the stuff I can do in Photoshop!
Joe Cocker video cracked me up.
Just talked to the vet tech again. She got ahold of the vet. Toto will probably be hyper for a few days, but fine. YAY. Oh, and she was like, "Try to make sure he doesn't get any more." Um, duh.
