Inspiration. Where does it come from? Does the brain juice up chemicals and channels itself to a tune that radically lin…
Inspiration. Where does it come from? Does the brain juice up chemicals and channels itself to a tune that radically lines symetry and synergy? Shit There is no way to know. I can only say that there is something that definately drives us and in some crazy way makes sense out of what to others may just see as senseless fucking jabber. The beat we march to is different in everyone of us and we should not take that for granted. Pop music composers have what I like to call a common demoninator with the rest of us, or maybe the majority, surely taking in consideration cultural education and all sorts of other outer influences and factors. Its those that transend and stand out and alone regardless of positve or negative feedback from thier sorroundings and fellow brothers, that find true meaning to their time here on earth. Shit!!! For all its worth (To you all, probably not much but, I lost the point I was trying to get across to you) Fuck it, at least I’m not watching primetime television and feeding on the system’s own MSG, and belive me it comes in all forms. The way I see it, either I’m crazy, or I’m a genius… Or I could just be like the majority and just be wishing I was a breed apart. Where do I get my inspiration from, you ask? Well, I think I get my inspiration from pain, the desire to find meaning to what sometimes seems meaningless, love, a pretty smile,the quiet whisper of “I love you “I once heard many years ago from an old girlfriend as I gently Invaded her body. You see, there is no need to be subtle anymore. Until I grow up or give in and realize I can’t go against the wind all of the time or, I thrust to the next level of thinking thus not making my random thoughts I waste of my time and yours, I’ll keep on keeping on. The Good thing about my quest for the truth is that there is no solid answer and as ideas and principles do, the truth keeps changing… I’ll be busy for awhile and I think you should too. Trust me even senseless rants like mine have a meaning somewhere in the universe and in time. See you on top of the mountain my friends and remember if the load you have is too heavy, its not a sign to drop it, but to prove to yourself, you are more than what you are right now. Have a wonderful day. Jonathan Virgilio Baez
Hey everyone, / no doubt everyone in or around Melbourne has heard about the channel deepening in Port Phillip Ba…
Hey everyone, / no doubt everyone in or around Melbourne has heard about the channel deepening in Port Phillip Bay starting in Feb,here are some facts, / 1/There are over 100 sponge species at the heads that can be found no where else on earth,there is a serious chance they could be lost(sediment covered) 2/Nitrogen balance is maintained by Benthic (seafloor)organisms,extensive areas would be covered,increasing the risk of toxic algal blooms. 3/Almost 4 million cubic meters of Yarra sediments containing heavy metels such as Cadmium,Mercury,Zinc,Lead,Arsenic & Ammonia will be dumped in the bay ,contaminants likely to re-enter the food chain,not to mention human risks to exposure. 4/An independant study of some mussels that were sampled & taken from the south end of the bay to the north end (Yarra) found over only a 6 week period that a significant increase in Mercury levels was recorded.The risks to Benthic fauna & potential for leaching of toxins has been grossly underestimated. 5/Bay related tourism provides around 1 billion dollars in benefits per annum & thats just the Mornington Peninsula,thats 10 times what the government hopes the channel deepening will produce annually.Channel deepening will have a negative effect on the economy threatening diving,fishing & bay tourism 6/The Port of Melbournes best estimate is that channel deepening would provide 1.9 billion to the economy by 2035 thats around 70 million per annum,similar to the annual value of the dive industry alone in Melbourne. These are just some of the facts more info here if you feel compelled send Mr Garrett a message voicing your disapproval Cheers everyone have gr8 long weekend
TELL GARRETT HE IS WRONG. SAY NO WAY TO DREDGING. The Port of Melbourne Corporation wants to start dredging on 1st February, I…
TELL GARRETT HE IS WRONG. SAY NO WAY TO DREDGING. The Port of Melbourne Corporation wants to start dredging on 1st February, It doesn’t think it should wait to hear what the Federal Court has to say! The Bay needs you now. Here’s what to do. Please Cut & Paste the letter below into an email to Federal Environment Minister Mr. Garrett. Please forward this request to all your friends and also forward copies of your email to: 1. Prime Minister Rudd via via PM’s website at: here 2. Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard at:Julia.Gillard.MP@aph.gov.au 3. Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister Maxine McKew at: maxine.mckew@alp.org.au Her new parliamentary address Maxine.McKew.MP@aph.gov.au appears not to be working. 4. c.c. to contact@bluewedges.org would also be appreciated Mr. Garrett’s decision and Media release of 20th December shows he didn’t listen and he relied on old inaccurate information which he seems to have gleaned from reading superseded PoMC promotional material. See Mr. Garrett’s Media Release at: http://www.environment.gov.au/minister/garrett/2007/pubs/mr20071220.pdf Of course Mr. Garrett, Minister for the Environment should have assessed the project independently rather than relying only on information assembled by the PoMC and its consultants. But – it looks like he didn’t bother even finding out where Port Phillip Bay is before condoning this act of environmental vandalism. If you really want to stop the now “jumbo-ised” Queen of the Netherlands from taking up residence in our Bay this is your big chance. The QoN is now 50 metres longer and 50% bigger capacity than when she last ran amok in our Bay, so she shouldn’t be let loose again to do even more damage. Let’s give Mr. Garrett one more chance. Let’s send him and his colleagues hundreds of emails telling them a few good reasons why Mr. Garrett should never have approved channel deepening, and why it must be stopped NOW. See news items on our website www.bluewedges.org for a history of Royal Boskalis, their worldwide activities and our campaign so far. Especially check out: Super-size me PoMC at: http://www.bluewedges.org/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=54&cntnt01returnid=66 and Boskalis sinks some stinkers at: http://www.bluewedges.org/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=76&cntnt01returnid=66 Cheers and thanks, Cut here The Hon. Peter Garrett Minister for Environment Heritage and the Arts Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 Peter.Garrett.MP@aph.gov.au Dear Minister, Save Port Phillip Bay You have made a grave error in approving the Port Phillip Bay Channel deepening proposal and have committed the Bay to much damage. You do not have enough information to have made a proper decision and the health of the Bay and all who rely on it will suffer as a consequence. Your Media Release of 20th December relies on promotional material from the Port of Melbourne Corporation rather than facts. I believed you would protect the environment, not be swayed by “developer’s marketing”. You say you will safeguard the “Western Port Ramsar site”. You have confused Western Port and Port Phillip Bay. Western Port is a separate, unique and different ecosystem, in a completely different location. Here are some facts about Port Phillip Bay and channel deepening: - Over 100 species of sponges at The Heads occur nowhere else on earth and could be lost FOREVER if this project proceeds. Unique and beautiful sponges, corals and seagrasses would be ripped out and remaining colonies smothered. Benthic organisms responsible for maintaining the Nitrogen balance in the Bay would be smothered, increasing risks of toxic algal blooms. - Penguins, dolphins, seals, sharks, whales and thousands of marine plant and animal species interactively rely on Port Phillip Bay for habitat. This delicate balance IS under threat. - Wetlands and coastline are at greater risk from the interaction of global warming and project related sea-level rise. You have not adequately considered this. - You claim 80,000 jobs rely on the Port. This was proven wrong during the 2004 EES Panel Hearing. The 2007 SEES claims 13,748 jobs rely on the Port. There is NO evidence that ANY of these jobs are threatened. PriceWaterhouse Coopers 2007 study of the Port predicts that trade will quadruple by 2035 regardless of whether channel deepening occurs. There should be plenty MORE jobs, not less! - Industrial contaminants and toxicants trapped in Yarra silt would be released into the water and then dumped in the Bay. Heavy metals such as Cadmium, Mercury, Zinc, Lead and Arsenic and Ammonia would re-enter the food chain. PoMC did not provide adequate data on toxicant risk. Risks to HUMAN HEALTH from swimming and consuming fish from the Bay have been underestimated and you have not considered this. - Many thousands of jobs in tourism, fishing and diving and their support industries ARE threatened by this sustained assault on the health of the Bay. Recreational fishing in Port Phillip Bay contributes approximately $1 billion per annum to our economy. That’s over 10 times what the PoMC hopes channel deepening would contribute to the economy annually! PoMC admits that fish stocks will be affected for a number of years so this WILL impact on jobs in recreational and commercial fishing, diving and eco-tourism sectors. Bay related tourism provides around $1 billion benefits per annum in a growing and sustainable industry – and that’s just the Mornington Peninsula! You have just approved an outright assault on all sustainable recreational and commercial diving, fishing and Bay wide tourism. - PoMC data on future deep draught ship arrivals needs proper analysis. In approving this complex and risky project you have relied on the PoMC marketing material instead of independent research into future trends in shipping. - PoMC says channel deepening would provide approximately $1.9 billion benefits by 2035. That’s its BEST estimate and that’s ONLY around $70 million per annum! That’s similar to the annual value of JUST the Dive Industry in Port Phillip Bay. Benefits that channel deepening MIGHT provide over 27 years are substantially less than our current sustainable Bay related industries ALREADY DO provide every year! Your decision to approve channel deepening reflects very badly on the environmental and economic credentials of the Rudd government. You have committed our Bay to a huge assault from which it may never recover. I hope Blue Wedges is successful in the Federal Court and stops this project but it is outrageous that they have to do what you should be doing. Port Phillip Bay is as important to Australia’s natural history as Lake Pedder. Please do not commit our wondrous, unique and living Port Philip Bay to the same fate as Lake Pedder – lost for ever. As a distinguished environmental campaigner and now Minister elected to protect Australia’s unique environment, how could you have that on your conscience? Please provide me with a response and explanation as to how you made your decision to approve the channel deepening project. Yours sincerely, Name: Address: Ph: Peter Garrett
I haven’t done a tutorial in a while and thought this might be something you find handy for replacing a sky, or perhaps selecting fly awa…
I haven’t done a tutorial in a while and thought this might be something you find handy for replacing a sky, or perhaps selecting fly away hair etc., Photoshop has lots of tools for making selections, the magic wand, the highly under / rated quick selection tool in PS3, the lasso, the magnetic lasso, the polygonal, / the pen tool, the extract tool etc., but for some reason when making a selection in / channels is mentioned, folks become a little more nervous. Probably one of the better ways to make accurate selections is in the colour channels, but be warned that it doesn’t always work, so checking the colour channels is one thing that is worth doing straight off the bat. What we will be looking for is the channel with the most contrast, in this case between the sky and the trees. As it happens, the blue channel is the one we will be using, but do check through them on other images you try this on. We’ll be using the paint brush tool and the dodge and burn tools for this exercise, so as long as the program you use has channels, a paint brush, dodge and burn tools you should be able to complete this in programs other than Photoshop. I have uploaded 2 large images to my flickr account, so you can see what you are doing :-) MAIN IMAGE and SKY IMAGE The copyright is mine .. yada, yada … Start Image. Completed Image. I have been building a library of sky images for quite a while, and it is a useful thing / to do. If you find yourself lost for something to take a photo of, start building yourself / a library of skies, textures etc., they can come in very handy. So, we’re going to replace the sky in the first image, with the sky in the 2nd image / because, people often change reasonable blue skies with other blue skies :) Here we go … open the main image and duplicate the layer by dragging it the new layer icon, pressing Ctrl J, or going to Layer>Duplicate Layer in the top toolbar. Next, I want you to click on the channels tab, which should be next to your layers tab. Next, click on the blue channel … you should now see something similar to the image below. I want you to duplicate the blue channel by dragging it to the create new layer icon at the bottom of the palette, and you can go ahead and name this if you like .. I left it as blue copy. You’ll notice that we don’t have access to our adjustment layers from the bottom toolbar like we do in the layers palette, we have to select from the top toolbar. So go to the top toolbar and select Image>Adjustment>Levels and making sure that you are working on the duplicate blue layer (blue layer copy) you can punch in the same settings as I have on the image below. I’ve tried to hide the sand with the dialogue box because we aren’t really interested in that just yet, What you’re looking at is the sky area and the trees and that they are pretty much black and white. You can go and grab your paintbrush now, and with the foreground set to black, paint over the sand at the bottom of the image. Don’t be afraid to zoom in to make sure that it is completely covered. Paint over the bush on the right of the image as well, just be a bit careful as you get nearer the top, remember that we can burn any stray areas with the burn tool. With the foreground set to white, go over the white areas in the sky top left. Stay away from the tree line with the brush tool, we are going to get closer to the trees with the dodge tool in just a second. Don’t forget to zoom in for the sky area as well. You can see in the image below that we are trying to achieve a black and white version of the image for the mask Shall we dodge or burn first ? Lets dodge :-) Select your dodge tool, select highlights from the top menu bar and keep your opacity down to 10%, or perhaps even less. Go along the top tree line .. zoom in for this … and see if there are any stray black pixels, if there is just dodge over them. You can also check around the other white areas, inside the trees for example. When you’re happy with what you have, switch to the burn tool, and choose shadows from the top menu and leave that at about 10% as well. Do the same as you did with the dodge tool, except to the darker areas i.e. burn out any remaining white areas that shouldn’t be there. To Toggle back and forth between your original image click on the RGB channel to check that you have all the areas you want dodged or burned. Like the image below. I went to filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur and gave this a blur of 1 – that would obviously be different if you had a higher res image. Before going back to your layers palette by clicking on the layers tab make sure that you click on the RGB layer in the channels palette and then bring in the sky image. Sandwich that between the background and duplicated background layer. Click on the background copy and switch back to the channels palette. Select the blue copy layer (or whatever you called it) and then you can do a couple of things – you can either press the first icon at the bottom of the channels palette which will load the channel as a selection, or you can press Ctrl and then click on the blue copy layer, / and that will load the selection. Click on the RGB channel and then return to the layers palette. Your selection should now show up on your image in the layers palette. Go to Edit>Cut and the new sky image should show through. To further refine the selection, add a mask to the layer and proceed as you normally would to mask away any stray bits that may be left. Select the new sky layer, and use the move tool to position it wherever you want in the image. I know that probably sounds like a lot of messing around, but once you have done it a couple of times you will get the hand of it. And this is one of the easiest ways to select stray hair,fly away hair etc., Taking the time to get a mask as accurate as possible in the colour channels will save you loads of time later on. Hope this has been helpful to you. If you don’t understand any of my ramblings, feel free to ask questions, or BM me.
It will come as no surprise to the literary types among you that I am a Burroughs fan. I haven’t read everything he ever wrote, and some …
It will come as no surprise to the literary types among you that I am a Burroughs fan. I haven’t read everything he ever wrote, and some of what I did read was just plain incomprehensible. But he hit the bullseye often enough to reveal his peculiar vision of the world around him. / David Cronenberg translated Naked Lunch into a movie, starring Robocop himself, Peter Weller, as the Burroughs stand-in character Bill Lee. Long before he was known as a writer Burroughs was notorious among his friends for his ‘routines’, absurd and shocking stories that would bring all other conversation to a dead stop. / Here is the most famous routine of them all.
By no means an exhaustive list of my videos, but this new website does have a nicer feel than youtube. / Im confining this website to non-...
By no means an exhaustive list of my videos, but this new website does have a nicer feel than youtube. / Im confining this website to non-redbubble vids. MuscularTeeth Channel
I’m pleased to announce my 2009 range of Australiana themed calendars are now available to purchase via my online sales agent, RedBubble….
I’m pleased to announce my 2009 range of Australiana themed calendars are now available to purchase via my online sales agent, RedBubble. There’s 12 different calendars in the collection to date which depict various aspects of Australia. You’re most welcome to browse through the collection, and if you’d like to provide feedback, that will be great. Calendars are an ideal gift for giving to family and friends, and yourself. / A snap of the jolly old fellow from last year See below for more product information. Here’s the full list for viewing. Each thumbnail is clickable and it will direct to a full preview of the calendar and unit pricing. / Australia’s Animals / We’re a bit different in Australia / New South Wales / New South Wales – South Coast / Humpback Whales / Great Ocean Road / Australia – The Bush / Aussie blokes and sheilas / Victoria / North-East Victoria / Trees In Australia / Great Alpine Road / Central Tilba
Channel 4 in the UK are playing Pan’s Labyrinth at 9pm GMT on Sunday 28th September. Personally, one of my “films to see before you di…
Channel 4 in the UK are playing Pan’s Labyrinth at 9pm GMT on Sunday 28th September. Personally, one of my “films to see before you die”, a true masterpiece of film production… But one where if you speak less than 10 minutes is up you will most likely start crying. Yes, it is that good. It’s in spanish, but should have english subtitles- they didn’t dub it which is such a good thing, thank god. Allows the actors to be as good as they are… Mark Kermode said it was one of those films critics wait all year for… one which makes the job worthwhile. I couldn’t agree more that this was the best film of 2006, by far. But it needs to be seen, as a full review of this film wouldn’t work without spoilers as it couldn’t come close to describing this film’s astonishing, to even begin to understand the spectacular piece of film making… art... that Pan’s Labyrinth is. Just watch it. Set your Sky + boxes, set your DVD recorders and PVRs, or even a VHS if you’re still back in the 90s, or watch it as it plays, because I am telling you right now, you could never regret seeing this film and it will genuinely change you.
I am delighted to tell you about three features I had given me today in the following fabulous groups: Thank you to the hosts of “Alph…
I am delighted to tell you about three features I had given me today in the following fabulous groups: Thank you to the hosts of “Alphabet Soup” for featuring my photo “End of the Season” in their wonderful new group and now is entered into their “E” Challenge. / / Thank you to the Cheryl in “The Fabulous Prairies” for choosing “The Lone Tree” on our first features in this wonderful group. / / Winning 3rd place and featured as the prize, in our first challenge in “Town Giants” was “Chuck the Channel Cat”. Thanks so much to Allen for putting my photo up, your a great host to work with. /
Sorry I been a bit quite this last few weeks, have been flat out at work plus have had engament party’s, bucks nights and weddings on ove…
Sorry I been a bit quite this last few weeks, have been flat out at work plus have had engament party’s, bucks nights and weddings on over the weekend taking up my free time. / Haven’t even had much of a chance to get my camera out this whole month besides at the wedding. Have been saving a lot of my good photos for the launch of my website which should hopefully be in the next few months but will try to keep up some posts every week . / Also working on the some more photography tips so should hopefully have some more up at my blog http://kirkhille.wordpress.com/ soon for you . Also got a big photography trip planned soon so hopefully will have a lot more photos soon Other news is one of my photos is now the new backdrop for the Channel Nine News in Western Australia . I was quite shocked when they contacted me at the start of the year about my photos . And now my Sunrise Perth II http://www.redbubble.com/people/kirkulles/art/1092886-3-sunrise-perth / photo is now on the news http://www.redbubble.com/people/kirkulles/art/2780474-2-channel-nine-news-screen-shot
marianne just turned me on to this eagle cam. it’s a mother/father with an egg, showing live data. / thought id share for those that are i…
marianne just turned me on to this eagle cam. it’s a mother/father with an egg, showing live data. / thought id share for those that are into this kind of thing / warning turn down volume of speakers before going to site, (experience talking) / assuming it’s the wind that is creating the static noise. / also when the eagle cries its a very high pitched cry. / she is sitting on egg, and occassionally will fly off quick to return / its pretty cool i think, but then im into that kinda thing :) so check out mama and her egg / This is from the Hancock Wildlife Channel.
Check us out in the Mumpreneurs story from last night’s program: http://perthaca.com.au/story_details.php?sID=TVRjeQ==
Check us out in the Mumpreneurs story from last night’s program: http://perthaca.com.au/story_details.php?sID=TVRjeQ==
Alpha Channels aren’t just a place to get terrific selections – it’s a place to have some fun as well. Don’t groan just yet :) this is a…
Alpha Channels aren’t just a place to get terrific selections – it’s a place to have some fun as well. Don’t groan just yet :) this is an easy and fun thing to do. It won’t work on all images, although you can still give it a try because it’s a down right easy effect to create. Different images will require different amounts of editing in the newly created Alpha Channel but it is a very simple, painless process. You can use this to composite images together to create a design, keep it as a single image, or maybe even rescue that not so nice image that you love anyway. The start image is brought to us by Orbán Ferenc over at the Stock Exchange site. I have resized for the image for the purpose of this tutorial. The Channels palette should be nestled with the Layers and Paths palettes, if it isn’t go to Window>Channels. Click on the Channel tab at the top of the Palette, and with the Ctrl key held down, click on the composite (RGB) thumbnail to select the luminosity of the image and then click on the create new channel icon at the bottom of the channels palette. You should end up with something similar to the image below. Press the D key on the keyboard to bring up the default f/ground and b/ground colours (white and black) With white as the f/ground Alt + Backspace to fill the selected area with white. Hit the X key on the keyboard to switch the f/ground colour to black, then Press Ctrl + Shift + i to invert the selection and press Alt + backspace to fill the selection with black. Hit the X key again to switch the f/ground to white use Ctrl + Shift + i to invert the selection and then do Alt + backspace twice and then you can hit Ctrl + D to deselect the marching ants. You should end up with something similar to the image below. Hold down the Ctrl key and click on the new alpha channel thumbnail, then press Ctrl + Shift + i on the keyboard to invert the selection. Click on the RGB composite layer in the channels palette, then switch to the layers palette and click on the create new layer icon at the bottom of the layers palette. Choose a suitable f/ground colour (I made mine blue) and Alt + Backspace to fill the selection – and then Ctrl + D to deselect. With the topmost layer selected hold down the Ctrl key and click on the create new layer icon at the bottom of the layers palette and it will force the new layer below the selected one. The new blank layer will the sandwiched between the two layers – fill the layer with white. See image below. Click the eyeball next to the original b/ground layer and you’ll see that it isn’t interacting with the effect. You can change the colour of the selection by locking the transparency of the image by selecting the layer and clicking the first icon just below the blend mode options. You could also create a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to do the same, as you can see in the image below. You can see on the image that there is a problem with the b/ground to the left. You could have fixed this in the channels palette by using a white brush to brush the darker colours away. I’ve added a mask to the layer and then used a gradient (black to transparent) to gently take away the majority of the b/ground. You could of course use the eraser on the pixels themselves. I’ve also added a Levels adjustment layer and on the composite (RGB) brought the black slider in to 55. The final image is below Remember to try out different colours for the selection and solid colour layer. Also remember that you can drag the selection from the layers palette into another image to create a composite. There are couple of problems that you might encounter – you may want the dark areas darker, if so, when you’re in the channels working on your new alpha channel do the black fill twice. If you feel that the whites need to be a bit whiter, then use another white fill. After you experiment with the effect a couple of times you’ll get the hang of how it works. Have fun!
Jacob and I are in this YouTube video! We were at the MACC, The Maui Arts and Cultural Center in Kahului here on Maui where Jacob was d…
Jacob and I are in this YouTube video! We were at the MACC, The Maui Arts and Cultural Center in Kahului here on Maui where Jacob was displaying his beautiful tropical flowers of Hawai’i photographs for sale along with many other talented local Maui artists and musicians. You may see us here at the 3rd Annual Maui Ukulele Festival 2008 Aloha kakou, I created a video with some of my favourite photographs. It includes a beautiful mele. Keali’i Reichel sings Malama E Ala ‘E You may view it if you like on my YouTube site / Ourjrny YouTube E Ala ‘E Please rate it, comment if you like and let me know what you think of it. / For your enjoyment, I am in the midst of creating another video with my photographs of tropical flowers featuring the beautiful mele by other talented Kanaka, Hawaiian musicians and songwriters as well. Mahalo nui for your gifts of Aloha. Every purchase of my images mean more to me than you could possibly imagine, and help sustain us on this very beautiful and unbelievably expensive island :) Mahalo nui loa, thank you so much for your wonderful comments, encouragement and support. From my Na’au to yours, I wish you Love and many blessings. Aloha e Malama pono, Sharon
I sent one of my photos Last of the Autumn Leaves into Channel 2 in Melbourne a few weeks ago and they just notified me that it will be o…
I sent one of my photos Last of the Autumn Leaves into Channel 2 in Melbourne a few weeks ago and they just notified me that it will be on tonight 6th July and tomorrow night 7th July when they do the weather report at the end of the news I also sent the photo to Snap Happy in the ExtraGo section of the Herald Sun about a month ago and won a weekend in the Yarra Valley :)
Most Bubblers are pretty well clued up on making B/W images but here’s something that is a cut above the grayscale conversion that a lot …
Most Bubblers are pretty well clued up on making B/W images but here’s something that is a cut above the grayscale conversion that a lot of folk do. / I found this tutorial in an article by Scott Kelby and have quoted freely from it in this Journal entry. / This method of converting an RGB image to grayscale lets you isolate just the luminosity in the photo and separating out the colour. By doing this you will end up with a pretty good grayscale image. 1) Open the colour photo that you want to convert 2) Go IMAGE>Mode>Lab Color. Your photo wont have changed thus far. 3) Under Layers click on Channels and you’ll see that your photo is no longer made up of Red Blue and Green. Instead the Lightness channel (the luminosity) has been separated. 4) Click on the LIGHTNESS Channel and your photo will now look Grayscale on screen 5) Now go IMAGE>Mode>Grayscale and from the menu that pops up click OK to discard the other channels. 6) Hit F7 (to open layers palette), click on the Background Layer and then click Ctrl+J to duplicate the background layer. Switch the Blend mode of this duplicate layer to Multiply and your photo will become much darker on screen. 7) Now here comes the clever bit – just lower the Opacity for this layer in the layers palette until you have it looking how you want it. You’ll end up with an image that looks far better than if you had simply hit the Desaturate button. Let me know how you get on with this. Peter
If you are wondering about this little visual tre…
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