Gallery Albums

Still heaps to do on the bAd website - have taken down gallery pics as WebAlbum isn't as manipulable as I'd like. Working with J-Album at mo unless I can find anything more suitable. I want to get the images up quickly but don't want to sacrifice the bAd style...

Picking up heaps of Photoshop tips from Graphics.com and an old UK Photograpy magazine picked up on holiday. It always amazes me how much is possible on Photoshop - it really is the most amazing tool I've used, so far!

Here's a couple more sketches....busy busy....

bluAngeldesigns

BluAngeldesigns.com is on it's way...

The site is finally set up with a few images displayed but there is much work still to be done. More images to create/finish/upload. More formatting for a more bluangelic look. More code to decipher - bleugh! It's been fun so far and I'm pleased with the site in progress. Meanwhile I am working on creating more images for RecyclingCDs (Valentine's Day is fast approaching) and sketching as usual.



As we left the scanner back in UK, I'm having to take photos of my sketches with a digital camera and upload them from the memory card. This is not the most ideal way of uploading sketches as it is difficult to capture all the marks on paper onto the camera image and then to access them all in Photoshop. Nevermind, I am taking this as an opportunity to experiment with my sketch work and see what the cameras (Sony Cybershots 4.1 & 5.1), Photoshop and I can make of them.

I've also downloaded a free 30 day trial of Adobe(Macromedia) Freehand MX which is an amazing tool. I'm loving experimenting with it but dreading the day when the 30 day trial comes to an end. There's no way I can afford to buy the software - why is it so expensive? - so I will just try to learn as much as I can and hope I can remember it when I eventually earn enough to buy a copy - sigh!

1st Post

Painting in Photoshop – discovered today that it can be very similar to painting with paint on paper or canvas. Using the sampler tool I pick up colours from one area and place them in and around the new area as fairly small spots of colour with around 70% opacity and 90% flow using a 3 pixel point brush. When I think I have enough colour I then change to the smudge tool and using a slightly larger brush size with around 90% strength, I can move the new colours around blending them in with the colours underneath.

For some time I was concentrating on making the colours distinct but when I let go of my focus and let my hands do the work rather than my brain, I realised that the colours were mixing just as they do on my (non-pc) palette or canvas and the effect is very similar and pleasing. Now the colours can blend more easily as I worry less about their placing and “concentrate” on painting as I would do on canvas.