Monday, January 19, 2009

RMSP

WOW! What a weekend! I was able to attend classes by the Rocky Mountain School of Photography in Portland. Wow! I feel as if my head would explode. I have so much info in my head now. I can't wait to get out and shoot some photos. I was able to get in at the last min. I was so sad when I got on the website to only find out that they were sold out. But I called anyways. There was a cancellation! Talk about fate. I met some awesome photographer and got to talk with some amazing teachers. This school is the place to be if you want to learn. I just wish that they were closer to me. Montana is a bit far to attend school. LOL But they do weekends and workshops. I hope to attend one of the workshops one day. I thought that I loved photography before, but now I have a better understanding and love it more. So many questions were answered over the weekend. I had so many light bulbs going off in my head, I swear I could have lit a room! It was money well spent. I came back with the tools to improve my photos. If you ever see them coming to your town or close by and want to grow in photography, go. You wont regret it. I'm actually excited about getting up before dawn to take pictures!! I think I'm crazy now :P

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Radial Blur


Hey there!
I am finally back! My pc is working great and can't wait to start working on things again. I took some pics while my pc was in the shop. I started messing around with them. Well, I wanted that radial blur in the background but didn't know how to go about it. So I did some research and come across one that worked. I had to do a few tweeks since this tutorial was for an older Photoshop but i'm happy with the results. I plan to play with it a bit more. I used a quick mask mode, hit "Q" and painted over the area that I didn't want to blur. After my selection...I hit "Q" again and then went up to Filter/blur/radial. I picked how much and tada! I got a radial blur in the background. I use CS3. So if you have a question, I will be happy to do some research for ya! I added the link to the tutorial I tweeked. I hope you have fun with it. I'm sure for all you experienced Photoshoppers...i'm sure this was a bit amusing :P hehe