Today’s Visions

Well, I did something new today with a theme that has been running since I started this blog. Waiting for spring!

Truly, it is almost here now. I mean, it is March already … time for the bulbs to be surfacing, the birds to be coming back, etc…

So I went searching for signs of spring with my camera.

My first stop was in Smithtown, New York home of a huge bull statue. Read the rest of this entry »

This beautiful photo was taken last spring in Pagosa Springs Colorado.  When I took the picture I did not realize that the thistle spore was on the petal.  I was so excited when I saw the photo!  It came out absolutely beautiful - in my opinion.

I submitted it to a photo contest where it has moved up the list and is now an Editors Choice photo.  I am now waiting for the final contest results to see if it will go any further.

Since I retained full copyright privileges in the contest (note:  also make sure you retain all copyrights when entering contests of any sort), I decided to create a set of cards from the image.  I love the quote and the look of the card.  What do you think?

When you are making a new color gradient and you want to use the same color more than once, don’t recreate it. Just hold down the Option/Alt key and drag a copy of the slider.

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 you want to match from the Window menu.

You may have noticed that PhotoShop automatically adjusts the settings in the New dialog box to match the contents of the Clipboard. If you want to bypass this feature so that PhotoShop ignores the Clipboard and opens the New dialog box with default settings, press Alt in Windows or Option on the Mac and choose File, New.