Tag: Photoshop

Taking it easy

PiaChit Chat

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Time to Photoshop!

As I’ve mentioned I’ve been a bit beside myself with my injured thumb, a limping old dog AND cat, headaches and various other creativity killers. Halfdone paintings sitting around that I was working on at the time but can’t for the life of me remember what plans I had and/or feeling reluctant to dive back in for some reason. And just feeling the usual irritation creeping in when I don’t get to make stuff with my hands.

So instead of struggling I figured I might as well make it easy for myself and see where that got me going. I’ve been digging through the old photos that I have backed up on the computer (I also have 2 large binders of negatives that I never got round to scanning, too bad really), picking out and playing with Photoshop making “fake” paintings or weird effects. Just trying things out. I’ve been wanting to make collages as well, but holding my stylus for cropping out items is a bit of a strain.

And it’s paid off, because I have enough images now for my picture blog to last for the rest of the year! I know it’s technically cheating, not actually doing one a day, but surely I can’t be the only one…. Anyway it works better for me to do stretches of one thing, and my temper isn’t as bad when I’ve been doing this 😉

Daisy layers autumn lake Sweden

Let som en pletdanish

Som tidligere nævnt har jeg været lidt ved siden af mig selv med min stakkels tommelfinger, halt hund OG kat, hovedpiner og diverse andre eksterne kreativitetsdræbere. De malerier jeg lige var beyndt på kan jeg pludselig ikke huske hvad handlede om og jeg har en eller anden sær ugidelighed mht at gå i gang igen.some reason. Og ja, så bliver jeg bare sådan lettere irritabel når jeg i længere tid ikke laver noget med mine hænder.

Så i stedet for at kæmpe for sagen, besluttede jeg at gøre det nemt for mig selv og se hvor det førte hen. Jeg har gennemrodet alle backup mapper på computeren efter gamle fotos (jeg har også to store mapper med negativer jeg aldrig fik scannet – egentlig rigtig ærgerligt!) og bare leget med Photoshop, lavet effekter og falske malerier og andet sjovt. Collager er også noget jeg vil i gang med igen, men det er lidt hårdt at holde på en tegnepen for at fritskrabe objekter.

Om ikke andet har jeg nu billeder nok til resten af året på min billedblog. Jeg ved godt det er lidt snyd ikke at rent faktisk lave et om dagen, men jeg er nok ikke den eneste… Når først jeg kommer i sving med et projekt holder jeg helst ikke op lige med det samme. Med bedre humør i bonus imens. 😉

No yarn

PiaPhotography

The weather is too dark and dreary to be taking photos today, so you’ll have to wait a while for the first dye results I promised.

Instead I stumbled across an old photo, it was scanned from a negative many years ago when internet connections were much slower and hard drives a lot smaller, so I don’t have these images any larger.

I never could decide which version I liked the best, how about you? (maybe you don’t like them – that’s ok too)

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I have so many negatives, so even if I can’t afford a new camera house when my current fails (hoping not to jinx it here, it’s definitely a senior), I do have image material enough to last me a lifetime of play in Photoshop. I just know I’d miss the thrill of the click…. 😉

Marbleous

PiaPå dansk

Years ago (like, around 1995 or so) I did a couple of experiments with marbling techniques.  One of the things I had in mind when I pondered recycling my old stuff was getting some use out of these sheets instead of just storing them. Gift wrapping has come to mind, but it would be fun to get more out of them (first) somehow.

So I’m going to scan them and see if fun can be had along the way. In fact I think I may want to make more of these at some point, perhaps using better paper. I can’t remember which type of paints/inks I used, but that can be researched I’m sure!

First I’ll need that studio, I think. Or just more hours.

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Marmorering

En gang midt i 90’erne eksperimenterede jeg med at lave marmorering, brugte forhåndenværende papir, tapetklister i et fad og ja, jeg kan ikke engang huske hvilket farvestof jeg brugte.

I stedet for at de bare ligger og glor i en mappe syntes jeg det kunne være sjovt at bruge dem, måske lave små gaveæsker, men først har jeg tænkt mig at scanne nogen af dem for at se om man også kan bruge dem til noget i Photoshop.

Og så fik jeg i øvrigt lyst til at prøve igen på et tidspunkt, evt. med bedre papir. Når jeg altså lige finder en tidsmaskine, sådan en som kan lave mere af den!

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