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Photoshop Texture Editing
Just wanted to share a quick post here. During Super Friends Penang Outing, I’ve shared few of my editing technique to those who are interested there, among other thing is how to blend texture when the background is BLACK. Just like the picture of A. Samad Said our National Laureate above. Let’s get straight to the point here, I use Screen blending mode here, simply because if I use Soft Light blending mode like I always do, the texture will not “Touch” the black area, meaning the black will remain black. If you don’t believe me, try it, use Screen blending option if you want to blend a texture into…
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Innocence
“A perfect photo that is empty of any feeling will never equal a blurred photo full of emotion.” ( Olivier Föllmi ) Tweet news and informationbusiness,health,entertainment,technology automotive,business,crime,health,life,politics,science,technology,travel
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Words That Kept Me Going | A Letter From Grandma
I got this email in November 28 2008, from Kathryn B. Foytack | Thomasville, Georgia, USA To this days I still felt so touch by her observation, thank you for your kind words, I really don’t know what to say. You give me so much inspiration and really kept me going. Here is her original email to me without any alteration, I did asking her permission prior to sharing it here in my Blog. I so admire the quality of your photos of your beautiful son. The new one of him running with his head down is just too perfect…so like a little boy. The ones where his mom is…
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Black and White Photography Tips
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Black and White Photography | A Portrait of HaiQal “Life is like a good black and white photograph, there’s black, there’s white, and lots of shades in between.” ( Karl Heiner ) First thing first, not all picture will look great in black and white, don’t get into the idea that everything will look great in black and white. I’ve a lot people asking me whether I change my camera setting and shoot in in black and white mode. No, I’ve never done that. All my pictures are taken in colors, I use Photoshop to turn it into black and white. Most of my pictures…
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Portraiture | Portrait of A Dancer
© 2009 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of a Dancer People often ask me, how I did my black and white editing, actually that was not an easy answer for me, one thing that maybe most newbie doesn’t know is that, not every picture will look great when we convert it into black and white, there are a picture that work wonder in colors but will be lifeless if we convert it into black and white. One thing that we must keep in mind is that, whatever we do, I mean in term of photography and in this case portraiture, just keep it simple, background play a very important role here…