Taking a test drive

Well, taking it in public after a month of tinkering. Seems I can only really  finalize website stuff when it’s available for viewing, even if no one knows about it per se.

This website is about 99% ready to go, need to finish finessing this and that, finish my link list, put the final touches on the illustration and so on.

I’ll be glad when I declare this done the re-route Jennworks here. ‘Cause nothing brings out my OCD like coding and styling.

Still learning Photoshop after all these years (that’s about 15 now)

I personally just discovered Photoshop’s Shadow/Highlight filter this past weekend when I asked the internet how to improve an image taken in shadow.

Below is a before and after example of a photo I primarily improved with said filter, then fine tuned with curves and color balance. (You can find the filter in your top Photoshop Menu: Image>Adjustments>Shadow/Highlight…)

I’m always amazed how much information a digital photo will hold, whether you can see it or not. The trick is teasing it out, which the Shadow/Highlight filter does amazingly quickly.

The page that helped me to discover the adjustment filter.

A more explicit tutorial