Literally within 8 minutes of bringing it home and taking it out of the box I was on the internet and my very hard to impress gene was utterly impressed ! Within one hour of using the computer and trying to retrieve my itunes songs and my thousands of pictures which were carried over from my pc, I had wanted to take my new trendy mac computer and drag it behind my Jeep down Anthony Henday. Black was now white , up was now down, and control, alt, delete (my favorite part of a pc) was now history! It`s been a week now and I think the new computer may be a keeper . Slowly, I will learn more about this thing. If i don`t kill it first....
Bring on photoshop, a program I have wanted for some time now. With all the picture taking while riding, and my ventures out with the camera I don`t know why it took me so long to get this hyped up program. So far it`s been frustrating (I`m blaming the mac) but I am getting the hang of the simple features.
The picture below was taken in the fall, and has been a favourite of mine from 2010 (taken near UofA)
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And below, after playing with the saturation, and the lighting I was amazed on how much more rich the colors had become. A dull fall day looks much more alive now (and yes, a little fake).... Still very cool !
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A shot from the farm taken in the fall of 09
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With a feature that can make the sky bluer, and more lighting effects, this now looks like a bit more like a painting.
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Bring on Gord, the man behind Rides, Reviews, Races and Random Thoughts and the apparent face of the lone biker on bikeblogs.com. On a ride a few days before the snow fell in November in the Terwilliger park area. I had done some very cool things with this photo but my mac won`t let me take it out of photoshop....
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This "toned down" version took only 5 minutes, but I think it turned out pretty cool still. I find the forest looks more eerie then the usual Fall forest creepiness that you get when whizzing through the open trees.
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| taken from the mac`s onboard camera, after several unsuccessful attempts to pull large files off of finished photoshop work. I decided to let Steve Jobs and the rest of Apple "have it" .... |
