Category: Design

CS3 FTW

Tonight I grabed my cell phone and snapped about 12 random shots of my living room. I plopped them into Photoshop CS3 and came out with this:

whoa.jpg

This is with just the default ‘auto’ settings. Pretty nifty.

I remember during my undergrad we were using CS2 at the time.  For one of our assignments we had to manually stitch together a series of photos into a panorama.  Manually stitch them together?  That was so early 90’s!  Why not just use the photomerge tool in Photoshop?  With minor tweeking to match up the seams my results weren’t too bad.  I had even used a nice digital camera and a tripod.  But this just blew me away.  Kudos to the Math Guys over at Adobe.

HALO

A friend wanted me to throw together a quick edit for a poster. Being the nice guy I am I said sure and went to work on the image she sent me.

This is the result:

Halo poster

I wasn’t aware of the photo’s origins until after I sent her the completed work. I feel bad and would like to give the orginal artist credit. The original image belongs to harbaugh79.

How did I find the original artist? Images from Flickr have a distinct filename. They look something like this:

258080280_187bf237ed_o.jpg

If you take the first section of that file name and add it to www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id= you get a complete URL pointing to the page where the image originated. (e.g. www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=258080280) Pretty neat huh?

Art on the Wall

I was working in a professor’s office this morning when I noticed a piece of art on the wall. It was a class project I completed last semester. How wierd. I didn’t think much of it, and yet here it is hanging in the professor’s office. We were instructed to take a photograph of a nature setting and create a paper collage out of different cardstocks. Using line and shape to show the scene. Mine was of some large round rocks in the forground, leading to a field of grain, and farther back a jagged mountian range. I guess I did a good job!