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May
26

Hello from San Francisco

Posted by DeAnna Allan

So it’s been a while since I posted anything. We’ve had some crazy days lately. Work has been super busy, especially since I was trying to wrap up a bunch of things before we headed off to sunny San Francisco. I went in to work early on Friday, left at 5, got home at 6:45, and by 7:45 we were driving away from our house to head to Seattle. We stayed in Seattle overnight, then flew from SeaTac to Oakland airport Saturday morning. It’s been non-stop sightseeing since then. Check out our family website (www.allanfamily.ca) for some videos we took with our new Flip Ultra. Very cool gadget, it turns on so quickly you almost never miss a great video shot of a not-quite-two-year-old in full adorable or funny mode! You can’t get the Flip in Canada yet though, so we had to buy it on our way down to Seattle on Friday night.

I’m working on getting our most recent photos resized for web viewing for and update on the Photo A Day In May challenge. I should have them ready in the next day or so.

I’m really surprised at how cold it’s been here! There have been unseasonably cool temperatures, and less sun than I expected – it was amazing at how quickly the fog rolled in. I think we’ve gotten some great photos too. Rob had to do some quick work to my laptop after we loaded the new photos on it (we have taken a lot of photos so far!) – I only had 5 MGs of space left! Yikes. No wonder it crashed while we were trying to check them out! He managed to re-arrange some stuff though, so we’re good.

Anyway, we’ll have another update soon, with some photos.

DeAnna

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May
13

Photo challenge update

Posted by DeAnna Allan

So, our household has been a sick one lately. Stomach flu has been going around, I hear. It hit me, my husband, and our son. Kyle was the worst. Luckily, somehow my mother managed not to get sick so at least we had help taking care of Kyle during our worst moments! So, needless to say, I haven’t gotten much scrapbooking done (digital or otherwise), or much blogging lately!

We had a crazy weekend too – grandparents (and niece Hannah) came in from Kamloops on Friday, we went to a baseball game and a birthday party for an 80 year old aunt on Saturday, and had lunch in Fort Langley on Mothers’ Day. We did manage to get a few great photos though. Check out this photo of Great Auntie Babs – an amazing shot and all Rob did was increase the ISO and use a flash.

My friend Lynn and I are hoping to get together to do some scrapbooking this upcoming long weekend while the husbands are watching the little ones. I’m thinking I have to show her some digital scrapbooking so she can get hooked like me!

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May
07

Turning your photo into a sketch, and the High Pass Filter

Posted by DeAnna Allan

I was checking out the May photo a day challenge gallery of photos on Jessica Sprague’s website (which is a great website, by the way, but that is another post altogether!), and I saw a couple of pics that looked very different by kimi boo. She had turned her photos into a sketch using Photoshop. Cool! I checked out her blog, on which she has some great challenges called Kimi’s Kreative Homework. I loved the sketch homework she had recently posted, and thought I would try it out. You’ll see my original photo, and the sketch photo. I think they are very cool! Here is the link to the instructions.

Then, I also noticed another photo she had submitted using the High Pass filter in Photoshop. I did a little more investigating and found that the high pass is another form of blur removal, but is easier to use than the Unsharp Mask filter because it can easily be tweaked. You can also use Smart Sharpen (see this link for a quick tour of the Smart Sharpen filter). I really like the effect the High Pass has. Here’s a quick tutorial of what I did (using Photoshop CS3):

I opened a photo that I loved, but had a bit of blurring (in this case it was around the edges of the flower, but the inside was in focus).
Duplicate the layer
Go to Filter-Other-High Pass (the layer will turn grey)
Play with the radius until just the edges of the items in the photo are highlighted (see inset)

Click OK
On the same layer, change the blending mode to Hard Light (you can play with these as well, but generally it works best with Hard Light)
Play with the opacity to your preferences. On mine, I have kept it at 100%.

Here’s the before pic:

See the final photo:

I really like this if you want to sharpen your image in a hurry.

Wow – two great tips I’m so glad I found today!

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