More Photoshop

More working with Katrin Eismann's books today--this time I worked on Restoration and Retouching with an old photo my sister bought for me a couple of years ago that was scratched and faded. For a first attempt using new techniques, I feel pretty good about this. On the left is the original; the middle is color-corrected to improve contrast and remove color cast; the right has the scratches removed. Clicking on the photo will make it larger so you can see the changes more clearly.

TIRED today--the eighth grader went on his class trip to Sacramento, so I was up at 3 a.m. with him--took him up to the school at 4 a.m. and got back in bed at 4:30--up again at 6:30 to get other kids off to school. I have to pick him up at the school at 11:45 tonight--yawn. Good thing I've got something to look forward to tomorrow! Piano lessons--yay! Today was the first day I've missed my morning pages in three weeks...

another postcard

Here is another of my altered postcards from today. Of all the vintage postcards I've collected, this is one of my favorites. I only use photocopies of the original; I just can't bring myself to alter an original. It breaks my heart that there is a family out there somewhere without this picture of their great-grandmother or father; I can't destroy the original.

A Day in the Studio

Not a terribly productive day in the studio--I've been working on a small collection of altered postcards, adding acrylic paint, pieces of pages of vintage books, copies of people's pictures from old cabinet cards and some rubber stamping. Lots of fun, this was inspired by Try It Tuesday's last tutorial. I've done inkjet transparency transfers before, but I'd forgotten how much I love the imperfection of the resulting image. I feel bad that this hasn't been a terribly productive day, but I guess that has to be okay--I can't just produce on demand, and the biggest point is to be here and keep working. I sold "Road to the Beach" a couple of nights ago, so I have to say goodbye to that piece. One of my goals is to become less attached to my projects. I have to be willing to let them go and share them with other people.