My Photography Tips Hello my friends! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend! Today I’m going to share a few tips that I have learned in the past year to wrap up the Photography series. If you missed the Photography series you can start here: Okay let’s get started… See this picture below? Now this is how I would take it today… See how much more inviting this version looks? One of the things I have learned is to add layers and texture. SO once you have your whole set up outside or by a window (this is key to great pictures) take tons of different angles of the shot. I also love to take a picture from a side or angled view. You can see in this pic I used my Canon 50mm f/1.8 Lens to really focus in on what I’m capturing. Here’s another picture (of the best chocolate chip cookies) taken on wrapping paper. Another great CHEAP thing I use in pictures is white foam board. I also love using bead board as a back drop. I also used the bead board with my Halloween desserts /chocolate dipped ice cream cones. mmm…
Photoshop CS4: A Picture Worth a Thousand Words I love Photoshop techniques that offer all kinds of possibilities for experimentation—and the following tutorial is a perfect example of one of those techniques. In this issue, we’re going to take a portrait and replace the person’s image with text (think 2009 Grammy posters). Pick a portrait that offers good contrast—a photo that’s very dramatic and dark probably won’t work as well. Create a new document (File>New) in a size that’s smaller than your photo: the specifics don’t really matter. Switch back to the photograph. Then, press Command-J (PC: Ctrl-J) to copy the selected pixels onto a new layer. Go back to the Select menu and choose Color Range again. Click the Eye icon next to the Background layer in the Layers panel to hide that layer from view. Click the Create a New Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers panel. 8 COPY THE PORTRAIT Create a new layer and drag it above the black-and-gray portrait layer.
Top 50 Photography Tips: Digital Camera Tips for Better Photography Here are the top 50 photography tips to get the most out of your digital camera and become the best photographer you can be. Digital cameras and camera phones have totally transformed the way in which we take photos. Not only are we free from concerns about wasting film, but the screen on the back means we can easily check whether we’ve got the shot in the bag. We can also easily and inexpensively produce and share photos with anyone with access to the Internet. Once you master the basics of photography, you will soon find yourself having more fun with your camera than you ever thought possible! Image Credit: Mia Rose Top 50 Photography Tips: Camera Basics 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Top 50 Photography Tips: Basic Techniques 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Top 50 Photography Tips: Better Photography 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. Close-up photography allows you to produce pictures that have an abstract quality and are not simply a record of an identifiable subject. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31.
Sewing Tips: Practicing your Sewing Stitches (including the back-stitch) Ooooh, okay, so many more of you told me that you received a new sewing machine for Christmas. Or a serger. Or some new sewing supplies. Yay!! Now, it’s time to practice. Many of you are very new to this crazy sewing thing so let me give you a really quick pep talk. Okay. One more thing, if you think something is too hard to try, then yep, it’ll always be too hard to try. It surprises me. Okay, enough pep-talking. I know this first tip is so lame and you already know it……but practice. You may not be perfect your first time revving up your machine……but you will get better, I promise. Okay, first real lesson: the Back-Stitch A back-stitch is how you secure the beginning and end of your stitch. Now, sew a few stitches forward, stop, push your back-stitch button (it will be some sort of knob/button/lever) and hold it down and then start sewing again. Now, continue sewing right over that row of stitches and continue on the path that you were wanting to sew. Why Back-Stitch???? Next up? Good luck!
Making Complex Selections in Photoshop - DesignFestival » For Web Design Trends Making precise selections in Photoshop is an essential skill that every designer needs. As a print designer, you will find yourself using selections to remove objects from their background to place within ads. As a web designer, you might extract an image and place it on a website with no background. So, what do you do when you have something that is extremely difficult to select with normal selection tools? Even with the masking and channels, you can’t make a precise selection consistently. You can try the quick selection tool, which does a great job of making a selection of the bulk of the image, but making a more refined selection is difficult with this method. In comes Refine Mask to the rescue. The Refine Mask menu is one of the best tools for refining your selection. Each view has its own purpose, but the best views for contrast would have to be On Black, On White, and Black & White. We can fix this by using the Smart Radius Slider. This is called fringe.
Big Photography Photo by: Dmitry Dubikovskiy Photo by: Erik Seo,National Geographic Photo by: Michail Vorobyev Photo by: Mark Bridger,National Geographic Photo by: Dominick Marino weaving fabric - Happiness blog by Gédane Tracer un quadrillage sur l'envers du tissu d'au moins trois colonnes minimun, on peut en faire autant que l'on veut il n'y a pas de règle il faut tracer des carrés,( ici ils font 1 X1 cm) mais ils peuvent faire 2 ou 2.5 cm il faut marquer d'un trait un carré sur deux, une fois dans un sens une fois dans l'autre voir photo ci dessous on a besoin d'une aiguille et de fil solide piquer au extremités le carré qui possède un trait en fonction du sens et nouer serré maintenant avec de la patience vous allez voir se tresser votre tissu English version Draw a grid on the back of the material of at least 3 columns; there' s no hard and fast rule, you can do as many as you like. You should draw squares (here they are 1cm by 1cm) but they can be 2 or 2.5 com for a larger plait. You will need to draw a line for every other square, in one direction and then the other... See photo You will need a needle and a strong thread. Sew the corners of each of the sides of the squares depending on the direction.
This Isn't Your Mother's Tango: Katerina Bodrunova Makes a Splash Dancing a proper tango is hard enough on land, but these dancers make it look effortless, despite the fact that they are fully submerged. Though I was not able to find out how Russian photographer Katerina Bodrunova pulled off these remarkable images, the emphasis should be on the beauty of the series, rather than the clever logistics behind her method. Bordunova is reportedly a self-taught photographer whose bio states that she seeks to “deft conventional physics and show [my] subjects as weightless objects with an ability to transcend space and time.” Even though they are weightless in the water, the dancers must remain buoyant long enough to strike a pose, and the intensity seen in their faces and within the language of their perfectly angled bodies is striking. Since 2009, Bodrunova has garnered an impressive list of international publications and awards for her work. Share With Your Friends
a quilt is nice: rounded quilt corners tutorial Lately (if you haven't noticed) I have really been into roundedcorners on my quilts. I really like how it looks, and how it seems to soften the quilt-- which I especially love for baby quilts. The great thing about rounded corners is you don't have to do mitered corners on your binding. Rounding your corners is super duper easy peasy. Here's how I do it. and square it up. next, I fold my quilt in half, and find a rounded object (I use a bowl or lid...or a toy that's floating around my sewing space) that gives you a good curve on your corner. trace your arc with a disappearing ink pen, or a pencil like I use because I have misplaced my pen. using scissors, cut your curve (I do two layers at once). repeat tracing the arc and cutting on the other two corners of your quilt. that's it. now your quilt is ready to attach bias binding. As you approach your corner, just ease your bias binding around the corner, and guide it into your machine.
How To Learn Photoshop In 24 Hrs » Design Reviver Quite a bold statement, Learn Photoshop in 24 hours. Its simple and you can. Stepping into Photoshop at first can be quite daunting, were do you start? Tutorial 1:Combining Two Photos for New Effect – Basic Tutorial running time : 10 minutes. We’ll start with something basic. Tutorial 2:Grass Texture – Basic Tutorial running time : 15 minutes. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a nice-looking grass texture. Tutorial 3:Underwater Effect – Basic In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an underwater scene from scratch, using Gradients, Transform and Filters. Tutorial 4:2d Mirror Effect – Basic In this tutorial you will learn how to Duplicate, Flip Horizontally/Vertically, Feathering and Blending. Tutorial 5:Sony Ericsson Logo – Basic Tutorial running time : 20 minutes. This is your first tricky tut. Tutorial 6:Paint Graffiti on Wall – Basic Tutorial running time : 30 minutes. You will be using custom brushes to recreate the graffiti wall, and working with multiple layers.
The Easiest Thing To Do With A Jelly Roll- Plus Our Winners! - makelifesweet Congratulations to our two winners of our latest contest. They are: Kristine Hanson who wrote: I love to make quilts for gifts...ecspecially twin or throw sized...perfect for an adult to have, what adult still does not like to have a blanket on them while napping? LOVE your stuff..LOVE.LOVE.LOVE! and Ariane who wrote: I love these patterns. Kristine and Ariane will both recieve our entire collection of Authentic patterns. Thank you to everyone who entered! Now, for the Jelly Roll. For our quilt, we used one jelly roll plus about 1/2 of another. But any Moda Jelly Roll will do- such as this cutie from Camille and Bonnie : Here are the instructions: Use 64 Jelly Roll Strips (this will make 32 rows). Machine quilt down the center using a straight stitch or a curved one. The first and last rows use the 2” wide batting. After quilting all the rows, sew together with a 3/8” seam allowance with a short stitch length. Bind and wash on the gentle cycle.