Security update complete…
I just upgraded my blog software… it is dangerous not to upgrade because upgrades often fix security holes and various vulnerabilities. Nobody wants to be vulnerable.
Really Romantic Sunset
Photoshop nebula experiment
Another Photoshop experiment. To create the background in this image I used a radial gradient. A chrome filter was applied to the gradient.
The wispy lines were created by using the pen tool to create a path, you then stroke a path with a brush by right clicking on a path and selecting “stroke”. If you have a fat brush then your path will be stroked with a fat brush using the foreground color. After that I just added some glow and drop shadow to the whiskey lines.
Then to create the different nebular colors I added another layer on top of everything with a radial gradient. Changing the “blending mode” for the layer is essential. Experiment. Repeat this process with other layers using different colors and blending modes.
It’s still kind of looks like you’re looking down into a cup of coffee.
KEN BLOCK GYMKHANA TWO THE INFOMERCIAL
Psychedelic Buddha
I made some more time today to play around in Photoshop… here’s the outcome. It was actually a tutorial on how to make the face of a clock… as you can see I have gone slightly astray. I was playing with the “reveal all” layer mask and repetitive transformations. Here is how to create the evenly spaced Buddhas:
The first trick is to press “control + t” to get into transformation mode.
Hold down the shift key and drag the center point of the bounding box well below the bounding box. This will be the point where your item rotates from.
Punch 30° into the rotation box on the top and then press enter to finalize the transformation. The Buddha or item should have rotated 30° to the right from the center point that we defined when we dragged it out of the bounding box in the previous step.
Now press “control shift alt t”… this should create a new layer, copy your Buddha or image, and then rotate it 30 more degrees to the right. Repeat that several times to complete the circle.
Then press “control e” several times to merge all of the new layers together. We are going to need them all in one layer so that we can transform that layer and twist it a little bit. Just make sure that you don’t merge down so far that you mix it in with your background… watch your layers panel while you are pressing the merge down command.
So once you have all of the Buddhas/items on one layer press “control t” to get into transformation mode. Next, While holding down the “control shift” key drag one of the outer corners of the bounding box to resize your circle of items. Just press enter when you get to the right size. You can also rotate or transform the image slightly in any other way.
now by pressing “control shift alt t” again this will duplicate the resizing of the circle. You should now see a smaller circle inside of your bigger circle. Now press “control shift alt t” again until you reach the desired effect.
Photoshop exercises with Cyrus doing a hand plant.
More Photoshop exercises… this is Cyrus somewhere in California.
Messing around in Photoshop and Illustrator
I spent a few hours today fiddling around in Photoshop and illustrator and here are the results:
Random update…
Frisbee with brother and friends on beach… jamming at Eric’s birthday party… Catamaran collision yesterday sailing… new super comfortable white T-shirts… good surfing session at airports… decent surfing session in Patong… visa run to Kuala Lumpur… new Star Trek movie is awesome.
Cartoon boxing blast… by Tawan
Easily turn your blog into a book
I was browsing the San Juan Islands bloggers page on DestiCam.com and ran across this post about how to turn your blog into a book easily…
http://zquilts.blogspot.com/2009/05/have-you-ever-wished-that-your-blog.html
Evidently the whole process is quite easy in the final product is good. I wonder how mine would turn out.