Personalizing my Signature

I am still in front of my computer and doing my blog hopping. Glancing at the lower right corner of my screen and it says 21:56. Whew! i logged on at 10:00. But damn, i don't want to admit it.... i'm not a surf addict! (Hey! i slept in betweens naman...hehehe) Anyway, as i was browsing, i ended up at this site My Live Signature. It's cool. You can try it and it's free. You can use it in your emails, blogs, forums etc.

Here is my try out:

And this one:

And another one:

Blog...blog...blog......................

Few months back i started blogging though i admit i'm not good into writings but i don't care.....i just feel it and love doing it. At first i was hesitant of creating a blog account but sometimes i feel of talking to no one, myself or everybody so why not blog it. But hey, what really a blog is? According to my dependable friend and friend of everybody whose name is Wikipedia a blog (came from web log) is a website where entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal . A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art, photographs, music and videos are part of a wider network of social media. Micro blogging is another type of blogging which consists of blogs with very short posts. The modern blog evolved from the online diary, where people would keep a running account of their personal lives. And that's partly what i'm doing. An online diary. I can say whatever i want to say. Share whatever i want to share. Remember we are in world wide web, and sky is the limit. You can do whatever you want to do.

And speaking of our friend Wikipedia, maybe we can request him to put our language Tagalog in his language list. He has only Ilokano which is not bad because it is one of our many dialects, but isn't cool if he puts Tagalog there? What'd you think?

I hate Itunes

I'm really pissed off with Itunes nowadays. I can't synchronize my videos or even photos to my itouch now. Whenever i open my itunes it has this January Software Upgrade thing that when I click the button "remind me later" or "no, thank you" redirects me to Itune's store. The page for synchronizing my itouch doesn't show off anymore. How can I sync my itouch then? Should i buy those software first before it quits showing this damn page? Arrrggghhhh!!!!!!! Why had I in the first place upgraded my version 1.1.2 to 1.1.3 then? I don't need it anyway. If only I can find the solution for this. I don't have time yet to browse the whole internet to find one. Or emailing them how to get rid off that page. Why can't they offer consumers purely satisfaction and not being annoyed of what they think is better. All is for money- and that counts!

Glamour-look tutorial

Do you want to turn your simple photo into glamorous one? Try this tutorial which i find very easy to follow. And i guess many out there are also doing this steps to make their photos look like glamorous. For a newbie like me, i tell you this is not a camera trick but a photoshop magic :)

So here we go....
1) Open your desired picture on photoshop.

2) Duplicate that picture - Go to layer then duplicate layer.

3) Be sure you are on the top layer on your layer palette...now go to Filter and choose Blur- Gaussian blur. Make it slide to 25 pixels and above ( it depends on how big your file is). Now your picture looks like very blurry. Like you're wearing an eyeglassses with +XXX grade, hahaha.

4) Still on that layer now go to Image, then to Adjustment and go to Brightness/Contrast. Now move both the slider to +15.

5) Lastly go into your layer's palette menu and choose Overlay and boila! your picture looks like very glamorous. You can also adjust the Hue/Saturation for the reds so that your picture won't become too reddish.

Here is my example. I played with my own photo. Actually i also changed the background. I cut it and paste in another studio-like background but that is another story.

Adobe Photoshop

A friend of mine who's a photographer-hobbyist suggested these photoshop books to me. Try to get one, he said it really helps a lot. For the beginners up to profis. Hmmmm i'm excited about this book!



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Studio Photoshoot...another try

It was a nice experience for me to shoot along with other photographers - hobbyist and professionals. A local camera and studio lights shop held a free seminar for studio lightings with a try-out to shoot in a studio set-up lighting. They have not only provided the studio lights with different settings, also a model as well. Although i was feeling tired and have not gone for a sleep for almost 24hours ( i came straight from a night duty) i found it interesting and fun. Every shoots i attended were all exciting because every now and then i am able to learn new things, exploring and sharing and getting ideas, perspective, etc. from others and most of all - new experience to me.

The model said her name is Sophi. I'm not sure of the correct spelling but I written it this way, Sofi looks good too or can also be Sovi (pronounced as So-fi) when it is written in German :)

Studio Photoshoot

A girl named Alexis, who has a resemblance to local artist Nikki Valdez was the one i tagged along this time for a studio shoot. These photos were taken sometime in November last year. Due to holidays and all i was not able to upload it before.

Layout

I started to try doing some layouts of the photos i recently shoot. It's kinda fun. But spending most of my time just sitting in front of computer and thinking what idea should i put into it. Gathered almost what i know about photoshop and put into one. Whew! That is something of a kind, hahaha. Well, I want to learn something different but because i am new to it, i just did only the basics. People out there who are really professionals of doing it might say my work is a disaster. Yaay! Anyways, everybody started as nothing. The professional ones also started from scratch, right? What's wrong of trying something new, who knows i can perfectly make it someday - what an illusion, hahaha! Anyway, here...take a look of some of my works.