One of my mindless hobbies is photography, so over the years I've come to use Photoshop to the extent that I finally decided to pay the monthly subscription and always have the latest version. I know--it's a waste of money, but so is bass fishing, which I forego in favor of just about anything.
One of Photoshop's latest innovations is something called "sky replacement." It is just a menu item, with some options. It is AI powered, so it is fairly capable of working without any human help, though there are myriad options if you want to further mess with it. Otherwise, the whole operation amounts to a couple of mouse clicks. I'm really not a big fan of all the over-photoshopped pictures I see all over the Internet, but this is still kind of fun.
All that said, I was reading Paula's blog this morning and saw a picture of a sunset behind a hotel that she had posted, with the remarks that there weren't any clouds to make it interesting, and, "Meh." And so to remedy that, (even though the original picture is pretty nice) I submit the following. Adding here that if she took this picture with a cell phone, I'm jealous, because my iPhone 6 doesn't take nearly this good of a picture.
Here is the original picture:
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| The original picture |
Here is my first revision:
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| Palm trees in downtown Kansas City? |
Here is another version:
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| Fake sky. |
How cool! I would be obsessed with that feature!
ReplyDeleteYes, all my pics are with my iPhone SE2. The best pics I have though are taken by my SIL with his “real” camera 🙂
That's what 45 says whenever he sees a sky he doesn't like. Fake sky!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the slow pitch. Photoshop? I tried to learn that once. People always say it's super easy to do all sorts of crazy neat shit with. I suspect people who say that only do so to minimize the efforts of people who can do something they can't. It was a while ago now but whatever it was that everybody does and that I tried to do too, I never could figure it out. I'm not dumb, it's something about how my brain works, I guess. You can give me all the manuals and videos in the world but there's a better than even chance they were created for Earthlings only. Not for me.
Anyway, hobbies. I considered scribbling about that but I can't think of anything I do as a hobby, either because I take it too seriously or not seriously enough. Objectively, that's probably inaccurate but eh.
I probably know about 2% of the things you can do with Photoshop. Every now and then I'll see an article about how to do some odd thing or other, and I'll study it and try it out, etc. until I owned it. Years ago, that process was very tedious, but now much easier--as these things always seem to go.
ReplyDeleteIf your goal is to make pictures that are "correct," and have proper exposure, and look good, a good cell phone camera cannot be beat. If you have a DSLR you can probably get what you want by learning the little tricks that every photographer learns, and your pictures will turn out nice. Photoshop isn't really needed--it cannot aim the camera for you--is what I'm trying to say, but it does offer possibilities beyond the snapshot. If you care about that sort of thing. But, as I already said, I'm not a big fan of over-processed pictures that look more like graphic art than photographs. That's more like a whole 'nother art form.
My subscription also comes with Lightroom and as you say I think it was designed by and for someone whose brain architecture is totally different than mine. And I am exactly the same way about iTunes.
I blame the Millennials.
The iPhone SE2 apparently has a very good camera in it. Very impressive. I thought your pic was taken with a DSLR.
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