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Doodle
A doodle with Pixelmator on an iPhone. The background image is the Volunteer Park reservoir.
August 15, 2016
Words Fail Me
I'm editing a cement pumper into an image of the Volunteer Park reservoir. The vehicle fits best into the scene if it's flipped horizontally. That's fine, not a problem. [Flip Horizontal] at your service. Just one problem. Select the…
August 11, 2016
Oops
Sometimes things just don't line up properly. When that happens, you can throw the rubber ducky out with the bath water, or you can make a strategic edit. Today while joining two photos into a panorama, I noticed too late that the…
August 9, 2016
Broadway and John LLR Station Mural, Part 2b
This edit involved both Photoshop and Affinity Design. In photoshop, as discussed earlier, I added the Obeebo dance steps sculpture from further up Broadway as if it were a zen garden at the foot of the station where the Central Coop…
August 8, 2016
Capitol Hill Light Rail Station, Part 2a
This is the station on the corner of Broadway and John. Previously, I added a Pride flag as a mural on the side of the station on the corner of 10th and Denny Way . This second part is the first of two parts (parts 2a and 2b), for a…
August 4, 2016
Rainbow Flag Mural
Photoshop's Free Transform tool is completely priceless. Let me not say priceless, because I have been less than excited about the idea of paying twenty bucks a month to have access to it. I'm only slightly less disgusted to think of…
August 3, 2016
Musical Statuary
This one nearly killed me. It looked so easy. The photo of the sculpture was fine and the outlines were well delineated. It shouldn't take me but a few moments with Pixelmator's Quick Selection tool and a brief glance through my library…
August 2, 2016
iTunes Album Cover Art
Build album cover art for my friend Nance’s 1991 solo acoustic EP. Background layer is a simple repeating pattern of a wood texture I grabbed from image search. Above that layer is a wood-textured cube, also snagged through image…
July 29, 2016
Quick Hit: Emojiency siteicon
I love site icons. This one was a quick edit of the second emojiency.com landing page splash image.
July 29, 2016