Photo Restoration Tutorial

Here is a photo restoration tutorial by Sam Scholes on Vimeo.



Here is a photo I restored recently - okay it was before I watched this particular tutorial - so I'll have to find another old photo and try his technique.

Scott Kelby's Worldwide Photo Walk July 24th

I'm surprised I have never heard of this before. I am very familiar with Scott Kelby and own half a dozen of his books for Photoshop and Lightroom. Rather than try to explain who he is I'll just copy a short bio from Wikipedia. Here is the link for the Worldwide Photo Walk.

He is editor and publisher of Photoshop User and Layers magazine, president and co-founder of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) and is president of Kelby Media Group.

Kelby is a photographer, designer, and the award-winning author of more than 40 books, including Photoshop Down & Dirty Tricks, The Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers, The Photoshop Channels Book, Photoshop Classic Effects, The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers, The iPod Book, The Digital Photography Book, and The iPhone Book.

He is the training director for the Adobe Photoshop Seminar Tour and conference technical chair for the Photoshop World Conference & Expo. He is featured in a series of Photoshop training DVDs and has been training Photoshop users since 1993.

In the fall of 2007, he created Kelbytraining.com to bring much of his training material into one easy-to-find location.

In 2008 he started the "Scott Kelby Worldwide Photowalk". In 2009 this consisted of communal photowalks in 900 cities.

So, I just found out about this but the Melbourne location is booked solid and there is a waiting list. They do have 41 spots left in Geelong (over an hour from here) so I'm thinking I might join there. Besides, I haven't been to Geelong yet and I hear it's beautiful, too.

If you're interested in signing up for the Worldwide Photo Walk - just check out the link and find the city nearest you.

Other Blogs

Ok - so I'm guilty of using Facebook. I actually like to keep my page semi-professional and have used to join various groups including Adobe (multiple products), AVID, Digital Juice and Video Copilot to name a few. You can get some real gems from these pages in their news feeds. One that popped up literally five minutes ago was from Adobe Creative Suite:

Adobe Creative Suite Do you have favorite websites or go-to blogs around web design, photography, video production, graphic design, etc? Let us know what they are and share them here with your Creative Suite Facebook community.

There have already been a heap of replies


Logo Lounge - has an interesting post on the latest trends in logo design.

Creattica - contains lots of graphic design work for many different products.

Grain Edit is focused on classic design work from the 1950s-1970s and contemporary designers that draw inspiration from that time period.

Behance Network - a place for graphic artists to post some of their work and there is also a job search.

Graphic Mania - has loads of tutorials as well as links to freebie downloads.

Photoshop Tutorial: A Picture Worth a Thousand Words

I love love love tutorials, too. This one is from Layers Magazine - the how to magazine for everything Adobe.

Tutorial: A Picture Worth a Thousand Words



My versions- they're both of my cat Houdini

Freebies!!

I'm a big sucker for plugins, brushes and actions. It's even better when it's freeware. I have tons of bookmarks all of the place, so I'm going to be posting some links to freebies that I have downloaded.

Brusheezy - not sure how useful these brushes will be but definitely very cool stuff.

Designm.ag - some basic but handy Photoshop actions. It's also an art and design blog - so heaps of helpful info and freebies on here.
They've also got some cool fire brushes - I downloaded these, too, but again haven't used them yet. I'm hoping this blog is going to change things and get me motivated again.

Stay tuned.......there will be plenty more freebies in future posts.

New Purchase

Ok - so I'm already a little bit in debt ($3,500) but Digital Juice is having an awesome sale on their new Motion Designer's Toolkits volumes 4 & 5. They're normally $499 but it was a promo for the first 1,000 - Buy one for $249 and get the second FREE! I couldn't pass up this deal.

To be honest - I already own volumes 1 & 3 and haven't even used them yet! I have browsed through all of the files and they look amazing - but I just haven't had any work that I could use them on yet - and I haven't been inspired to create anything with them (hence the blog).

If you are a video editor or motion graphics designer - and you have never heard of Digital Juice MDTs or do not own any - I highly suggest you invest into a couple of these. Just check out the promo video and see for yourself.

National Gallery of Victoria

This past weekend I went to the National Gallery of Victoria to see an exhibit European Masters: Städel Museum, 19th-20th Century.

The pieces were from all different schools of painting including the Barbizon School, Les Fauves, Impressionism and Les Nabis to name a few.

I jotted down the names of the paintings that impressed me the most, but I can't find high resolution photos of the majority of them. I'll post the two that I could find.



Village Road in Winter (1870) Gustave Courbet


The Jealous Lioness Paul Meyerheim

This painting was one of my favorites. I bought a print to frame and hang up in the house.

Purpose

I'm a procrastinator - this blog is intended to make my creative side accountable to something. I have hundreds of unorganized bookmarks, thoughts, ideas, photos, projects and inspiring words and images all floating around on my computer or in my head. Hopefully, this blog will be the place for all of that to come together and I can make better sense of it all.

This is intended for all fine art, photography, digital art, filming, editing and motion graphics.