A Prairie Home Companion

I listened to "A Prairie Home Companion," today while I finished up some work and thought I would share the link for the show from this last Saturday's show, September 5, 2009.

Hope you enjoy!

Top of the Bunny to You.

Purple Bunny says, "Good morning, let's get it on."

Otto Peintmore

OK, so I've been working alllllll night... not really, but, I did throw this image together before I went to bed last night, and I have to say, I really had a lot of fun painting it. The thing of it is, well, I love graphic design and art and last night was a great night for both. Enjoy!

The Original:


The Adjusted:


The Artsified:

Giving Sight to the Blind

For someone that has been using Photoshop, the popular image editing software from Adobe, more than a quarter of his life, (I know I'm only almost 20, but in Tait years, that's a long time) the more I experience the versatility and ability of the program and am amazed. Unfortunately, I never had to suffer through the early days of Photoshop (1990 release of Photoshop 1.0), which is relative because in those days, it was a one of a kind program that did one of a kind operations with photos. Now in its eleventh major release, Adobe Photoshop CS4 is an all together incredible program...

However talk is cheap, so allow me to show you another example of image editing in Photoshop:



This picture by Ed Simpson is from a training course I'm participating in at Lynda.com (By the way, I'm not getting paid to advertise, I'm just a highly satisfied customer) called Photoshop CS4 One-On-One: Fundamentals by Deke McClelland. Mr. McClelland and I worked together to give this guy a little more utility out of his less than functional right eye. I was impressed by my own work even if it was helped in part by Mr. McClelland's tutelage:



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Sources: Wikipedia - Adobe Photoshop - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop

Drawing Crazy!

Two more installments into the "Tait's Random Gallery"...

Colorful Profile

Photoshop Phun

I've been taking some photoshop classes online at Lynda.com and I wanted to try out some new things after an hour of video tutorials. I came up with this...

First, the original RAW image, from a point-and-shoot (click image to make larger)





Second, the edited...





Finally with some added flair...





I hope to make my showcasing of images I create/edit regular here on my blog (at least for the summer)! Hope you enjoy!