Last weekend, Jen’s cousin and his family came to visit us. It was a great time spending the weekend with Michael, Larina and 3 year old, Caroline. I thought this was another great opportunity to brush the dust off the Canon SLR so we took some photos in the neighborhood park. Here are some of the shots and thanks to my wife for the extra help on the photo editing.
The time during the holidays is a great way practice photography. This past holiday, we had family across the eastern US come to visit and we enjoyed every moment of it. Below are some of my favorite shots.
On September 27, 2010, I attended Kelby Training’s Photoshop Creativity Tour in Charlotte, NC. The 6-hour day covered various Photoshop topics such as Layers, Channels, Retouching, Compositing, Type, Special Effects, and 3D. The seminar was led by Bert Monroy, who is known for publishing several books including the first on the use of Photoshop (The Official Adobe Photoshop Handbook, coauthored with David Biedny). He also hosted his own TV show called PixelPerfect. This guy knew his stuff and apparently he knew about Photoshop before Adobe did! He does amazing work and is already testing out CS6. I was impressed by this Photoshop master, to say the least.
Bert Monroy provided a lecture and trained us on some new features that CS5 has to offer. One of the useful tools he covered is the brand new Content-Aware Fill. The best part is that this tool is extremely easy to use.
Take a look the photo below. This is one of the engagement photos I took for my friends, Kevin and Leigh (see my last post). In this photo, you’ll notice the orange construction tape hanging in between two trees in the back right – something that could be easily removed in Photoshop.
By traditional Photoshop approach, there are a combination of different tools to fix this – clone stamp tool, magic eraser, healing brush, and/or the smudge tool.
However, Adobe Photoshop CS5′s Content-Aware Fill makes this process much easier!
It’s that easy! However, note that it’s not always perfect. You may get some imperfections depending on the photo and what’s around the area to fill. However, this quick-and-easy fill can eliminate many unecessary steps that you have been performing in earlier versions of Photoshop!
Congratulations to one of my best friends, Kevin and his wife Leigh as they escaped away to get married in Maine on 10-10-10. Kevin and Leigh are one of the nicest couples anyone would enjoy getting to know. Their recent marriage reminded me of the photo session that I did for their engagement a few months previous on UNC-Chapel Hill’s campus.
I have a strong interest in photography, but I am by no means a professional photographer! Below are some of my favorite shots that I took of them. I used a Canon Rebel XSi for shooting and I used Adobe Photoshop CS4 (didn’t have CS5 until recently) to give them more of a vintage look. Hope you enjoy them – let me know if you have any feedback!
