Well Randall Pond was beautiful this month, as it always has been.
The greens were deeper with summer full upon us and although we have had a fair amount of rain, the pond has really dried out.
This has been the first time that I have been able to walk around the entire pond bank.
My shoes got really muddy and I had to dodge a few trees - but I made it around the entire place.
Photoshop only gives you bold and italics options when the typeface includes these styles. If you want to simulate bold and italic formatting styles when these options are not available, you still can, but the option is somewhat hidden. If your character palette is not showing, click the button on the type tool options bar [...]
By default, Photoshop retains several things in memory–undos, items you’ve copied to the Clipboard, a documents action history, and defined patterns. These items can be an enormous drain of memory and are usually the source of low memory errors. Therefore, purge these items from memory as often as possible. To do so, choose Edit, Purge, [...]
To change the color of an image, press Cmd/Ctrl+U to open the Hue/Saturation dialog box (Figure 1). Then move the Hue slider to change the color. Use the Saturation control to adjust color intensity, and Lightness to adjust… well, the lightness. Click on Colorize to add color to a grayscale image or to add a [...]
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Although PhotoShop’s Image Size and Canvas Size dialog boxes are fairly straightforward, there is a hidden feature of which you may not be aware. While the Image Size or Canvas Size dialog boxes are open, you can match the image or canvas size and resolution of another open image. To do so, select the image [...]
A lot of Photoshop problems can be fixed by dumping the Preferences file. While launching Photoshop, hold down Alt+Ctrl+Shift on the PC or Cmd+Option+Shift on the Mac. When asked to reset the preferences, choose Yes.
But before you do this, save your custom Patterns, actions, styles, brushes, gradients, shapes, and color palettes. These will also be [...]
My biggest Christmas present this year was the arrival of my son to New York. My son, Jonathan, is a search and rescue medic in the United States Navy and for the past 8 months he has been stationed in Kuwait.
To simply say that I am proud of him would be a major understatement — [...]
Well, I am finally getting around to posting my pictures taken at Randall Pond in December. We have had several snowfalls thus far this winter and I was lucky enough to capture Randall Pond during one of those snows in December.
In fact, it was snowing while I was taking these pictures. I traipsed down the [...]
Typically, when a person thinks on death they think of - darkness, dust and worms. The thoughts provoke fear and discomfort. While in Middle Island, New York I saw this tombstone and just knew I had to take the shot.
Anna walked out of the office barely holding back her tears. She had just been fired again. And it was so unjust! She simply had to paint her nails for her party tonight. What if she didn’t get to the phone quick enough? After all, the company had a great voice mail system. What difference [...]
If you have read my blog on ‘Futures’ then you know that my time spent in New York City trying to capture the feel of that great city in pictures was a bust — besides the picture Futures. So, I was left with a great many pictures that seemed to have no purpose - [...]
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When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: ‘Only stand out of my light.’ Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.
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