Acutally had some time to play around a bit today. Wandered over to the NAPP Forums and spied one of their challenges which was to colorize this photo:
I haven’t done a colorization in a while and enjoyed playing around with this one. It was done mostly by using masked solid color layers set to soft light. After I had basic colors for all of the parts I made a merged copy at the top and then did some dodge/burn/smudge and light opacity painting…
Yet another reason the camera has been neglected a bit lately… I decided to finally act on my desire to learn how to play guitar and on February 22nd I bought a Guild GAD30E after visiting the local guitar shop and am slowly learning how to play. While I have figured out the notes/layout of the fret board and my finger picking coming alone smoothly, I’m still working on learning chords. Interesting concept – chords, not something I’ve ever had to deal being a flute player.
Played with the photo in Lightroom to make the new guitar look old and liked the effect of this… Below is the original.
The image for the week:
The first thing that came to mind was a logo idea..
Only spent about 30 minutes on it so might decide to go back to it later on…
It has been a very long time since I’ve had a chance to do a NAPP battle – in fact looking back at my blog posts to find out how long I realized the last two I did are not posted so I will put them at the end of this posting.
The idea with the NAPP Battles is to take a common starter image and modify it to create a new image/composite.
The starting image for this week is to the right – I decided to try to make her look less gloomy…
And now for the previous two battles I did…
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 |
| 28 | 29 | 30 | ||||
