Tannenbaum II & III
OK, it's a series. As usual, clik on da pic for a bigger version.
Tannenbaum II:
Tannenbaum III:
And yes, I do know that "tannenbaum" actually means fir tree, while "Weihnachtsbaum" means Christmas tree. If you have a nit picky issue, pin yer manifesto to someone else's chest.
Tannenbaum II:
Tannenbaum III:
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posted by TTB at
2:31 PM
3 Comments:
How much of this is the digital camera and how much is photoshoppery?
These are examples of extremely primitive photo manipulation. Nothing like one could do in Photoshop, pixel by pixel. Basicly I took what the camera produced, zoomed in, and made what was there more extreme.
With Picassa, I went to "Basic Fixes" and cropped the original picture, which was of the whole side of the tree. Then in "Tuning" I used the "Shadows" feature to darken all the dark areas to black. By clikking out of "Tuning" to either "Basic Fixes" or "Effects" I reset the shadow meter to zero, so when I went back a couple times and shoved the doohicky all the way to max I eventually got dark to turn black, or close to it.
Then I intensified the lights by doing the same with the "Highlights" feature.
Then I went to "Effects" and used the "Saturation" feature to jazz things up.
Also, I rotated one or two of the pics, but I don't remember which. I think it was Tannenbaum III.
Anyone with Photoshop would snicker, but I do like abstracting reality: find what is already there and focus on it. See what wasn't obvious or was overlooked, and make it in your face.
I cropped III the most, so it is a pretty small file. Clikking on it gets a small "larger version." However, setting it as the screen background gives me a full screen version, and it is pretty wild.
And while I have used Photoshop, I don't have it. It's a great tool, tho.
While I have the more sophisticated software which came with the camera, I like Picassa a lot. Unlike the software which comes with nearly every electronic gadget including my watch which has so many features which everyone absolutely must have in order to live a fulfilled life but never uses and having them makes using the few features I do use all the more difficult to the point I tend to curl up in a ball under a fern somewhere and tremble and suck my thumb until my eyes glaze over and I achieve catatonic trance, Picassa has hardly any features, won't do much, and that little is quite obvious. It is simple to the point of being easy. No 200 page manual.
Imagine that.
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