under the pretext of creating city images for my Chinese class, i went to SF today... but found myself deviously walking towards Japantown and ended up buying lotsa titbits from nice Jap supermart i discovered... dunno. just felt really happy in the Jap supermart even though i couldn't read like 80% of the labels... saw this very pretty 'package' of jap titbits for $3.99 so couldnt resist and bought it! then walking through Kinokuniya i was once again awed by the brilliant pieces of art in Howl's Moving Castle unfortunately the $38 price tag was definitely too pricey for me... and i wanted to buy all the cute cheap plates at Ichiban Kan... i was definitely reminded of how much i love Jap culture. will definitely visit Japan again. and hopefully... continue with Jap 10b next sem =Phmm anyway i wasn't exactly very productive today. think i have a lot of random pictures, which i'll slowly look through again and pick the best few to present. but i realized how powerful Adobe Photoshop can be! i really dunno how to use it, but i tried one of its really cool functions, which turned this..
to.... this!
there's prob tons of cool things Photoshop does, just that i prob wun hav time to learn them in the near future.... suddenly i wonder how many of the (seemingly perfectly 'normal') images we see everyday are unmanipulated portrayals of reality?
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coincidentally, i just picked up the same photoshop tip (crop and perspective or something like that right?) recently.... photoshop does wonders to the contrast/colours of pictures. actually knowing how to use all your camera functions would help bring out the most in the photos you take as well... =)
anyway, i think being able to use photoshop and camera functions to achieve the best effects for one's photos is an art by itself as well ... it's knowing how much to crop/up contrast/saturation etc. so yar, even if i know that photos have been photoshopped, i still have lots of respect for the photographer/photoshopper. heh.
- faith
yup it's crop and perspective. yes, i realized the bit about its contrast function...=P
oh i do agree with you that it's defintely not easy to master photoshop and i have a lot of respect for these photographers and photoshoppers; i was just thinking about how many photos used to be like almost exact replications of things we take, but increasingly there seems to be very powerful tools for even a novice like me to easily manipulate a picture... =P but then again, it might also be because when you don't know a certain thing can be done to a picture, you have tendency to think it doesn't exist... so i'm just starting to discover the very cool world of photoshoppers... =)
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