Processing can be fun !!!

So i finally got a camera that's capable of producing the images i want to shoot.

So everything should be easy now right? ......er yeah, but there's a whole load of other issues, like only half of the picture is interesting, I got some great pics of some geese all in a line and some inconsiderate council workers stuck a rubbish bin on the other side of the bank, and its bright red! DOH!!! I was so exited about the line of Geese i didn't see the bin through the viewfinder. Thankfully editing software saved the day.

Some time back i did some web design for a local school i was working at, so i was not too frightened about copying images and manipulating them. Some of my early crops didn't consider the size of the file left after cropping, they blurred so badly they where useless. This is not a tutorial, but, always work on a copy never the original image, then you will have something to go back to when the drawing board breaks ;-)





Two for the price of one, just a straight crop, didn't want to lose the original image, that's a holiday memory the crop is arguably, arty.















My camera came with some editing wares, Windows Photo Gallery has a limited selection and there's Photoshop, Gimp which is my tool of choice, free, feature rich (no CMYK yet, but hopefully soon) and professional enough for me.

SO i was working on the Isle of Dogs for a bit, i took my camera to shoot the docks, cranes, boats etc. and noticed that the buildings where not straight checked my pictures the ground was but the buildings all had a bit of a lean.


Before:
Leaning tower of Barclays.

Apparently this is common, real photograghers have special lenses, us mortals have vanishing point tools in Photoshop and perspective tools in Gimp.




The black and white is done by clicking greyscale in my editing software, you can do it with Windows Photo Gallery with the colour tool.

After:
Perspective and greyscale Barclays now propped up straight and not a penny of taxpayers money spent.








Any package you use will have a forum, or just search the help menu's when i worked in IT it was not 'what you know about computers' it was knowing how to find the information you needed that always saved the day and its the same with editing, to cure this problem i just had to search:
'Photoshop leaning buildings' and i got 75,000 results most of which where very good tutorials.