Brown eyed jungle......

Brown eyed jungle......, originally uploaded by *Gracie.

Changing the color of an object in Photoshop

Dare to be different, originally uploaded by *Gracie.
Photography by Gracie - © All rights reserved

A dramatic change using the same technique to achieve the blue/aqua background

Hmm... I'll pose pretty, originally uploaded by *Gracie.
Photography by Gracie - © All rights reserved

Subtle change using the same technique to achieve the blue/aqua background

1. Simply pick the "Color Replacement" tool ( located in the brush tool's flyout menu in the toolbox) or press B until you have it.

You can adjust the Color replacement tool's settings by going to the Options Bar, clicking the down-facing arrow next to the word "Brush," and choosing your settings in the Picker that appears.

2. Choose the color by opening another image and click on the desired color or click the color in the color palette (bottom left) that you'd like to use.

3. Start painting - that's it!

Lunch on a Skycraper - 1932

Photograph by Charles Ebbets

It's one of the most recognized photos in the world:

In the black-and-white image, 11 blue-collar workers sit on a beam, nonchalantly dangling hundreds of feet above New York. They're smoking cigarettes, reading papers, and chatting. The only thing keeping them from plunging to certain death is a skinny piece of steel.

To celebrate an anniversary of the steelworkers' archive, the company that owns the rights to the photo decided to ferret out the photographer.

It took a private eye firm and months of investigative work to find the man behind the lens. That's because news photos were not regularly credited in the 1930s.

But just before Halloween, the company, Corbis, credited Charles Clyde Ebbets for taking the image.

Ebbets' daughter is a Wilmington resident. Tami Ebbets Hahn says her photographer father was a professional with a sense of humor and adventure.

Original

Selective coloring..... 3 easy steps!

Surviving another dog day afternoon....., originally uploaded by *Gracie.
Photography by Gracie - © All rights reserved

3 easy steps:

1.Go under Layer menu, pick new - hit Control J for background layer.

2. Press B to get the Brush tool (medium soft edged) Be sure to change the Mode to Color (on the horizontal menu next to the brush size at the top of the screen.

3. Set Foreground color to Black by pressing D - start painting the areas you want in black and white.

That’s it.

One more

Experimenting with red, originally uploaded by *Gracie.
Photography by Gracie - © All rights reserved

The Blues

The Blues, originally uploaded by Monster..

by Steve Bailey

Amazing picture from an incredible photographer on Flickr! This is one of many incredible shots.

Making a simple border with Photoshop

hmm.... here we go again, originally uploaded by *Gracie.

Photography by Deb - © All rights reserved

On the top toolbar - hit Image - then hit resize - then hit canvas size.

There are 2 choices - width and height with arrows next to the boxes. Change from inches to pixels

There is a little box at the bottom left that says "relative" - make sure that box is checked.

The color choices are at the bottom with an arrow to choose from.

On most of my photos, I use the height only - leaving width empty or 0!

Your picture size will determine how many pixels you will need -

For starters - try using 100 and see if that's too much or too little - adjust accordingly.

(if you make a mistake or don't like the results - hit the edit button on top toolbar and click "undo")

If you want to add more border to the top or bottom, there is a box that says anchor at the bottom with arrows. I push the bottom middle arrow and then use 200 in the height box again - you will have to change from inches to pixels with each step. (same would apply to width, as well)

That will give you the kind of border I've been using but experiment.

If you want a regular border all around the picture, just put the same number in both height and width.

Mums in a Basket

My first attempt at digital photography taken in 2006!