Category Archives: photo manipulation

Tales Around The Supper Table – Volume Two

J.L. Curtis has gathered up another group of talented authors from the Lone Star State for the second volume of Tales Around The Supper Table, my latest book cover design. A collection of short stories featuring Dragons, Cowboys and Indians, SciFi, … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday, Tina!

It’s Tina’s birthday, and I made her another Halloween themed birthday as I have in the past. Happy birthday, Tina!

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Honest Abe Lincoln

I came across this famous photographic portrait of Honest Abe and decided to play with Adobe Photoshop’s new Neural Filters. With the touch of a button and maybe a two second delay, black and white photographs are automatically colorized.

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One Touch Colorization

A new set of features in the recently updated Photoshop make it unbelievably easy to cheat by making the painstaking process of colorizing photos into a one button process!

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Bok Choy Betty

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Happy Birthday, Tina! 2018 Edition

Being that Tina’s birthday comes in October, I usually get a jump on Halloween by giving her card the theme of the season. Here is our dear cat Plywood as the undead count from Transylvania.

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The Cat People Valentine Special

Rather than bury one another under a mountain of clutter, Tina and I make cards for each other. I think I have run the course of angry or ironic Cupids so I decided to go weird for this Valentine.

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Fun with a Free Photo Editor

I fired up the free, cross-platform, image editing software known as GNU Image Manipulation Program or GIMP and had a bit of fun with this photo I shot of an industrial building at the corner of 12th and Jackson in … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday Joe!

My favorite fella turns a year older today! There will be cake and manicotti and dancing girls and a cat who is doing his damnedest to destroy our sofa. Happy birthday Dahlink! SaveSave

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Descent

Beating up a boring photo with GIMP and Affinity Photo.

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’til the Real Thing Comes Along

This year’s birthday card for the lovely Tina features the fabulous feline Plywood in a photo collage cobbled together in the astounding Affinity Photo. Happy birthday, Tina!

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Leaving Parts of Atlantic City in Atlantic City

During a recent visit to Atlantic City, I stepped out upon the balcony of our hotel and was visited by a breathtaking sunset complete with stunning shafts of light piercing the clouds. It begged to be photographed. Sadly I was … Continue reading

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A Tree Grows in Lansdowne

My favorite tree on the way to work. The sun was hitting it just right so I pulled out my camera and took some texture shots. A little bit of this and that in a photo editor and there you … Continue reading

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Red Sweater

Playing with a family snapshot with Photoshop killer Affinity Photo.

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Friday Five – Number Ninety Eight

Ninety-eighth in a series creating a collage using five elements.

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