Winding Road

Websites & Photoshop

plus a handful of miscellany

This destination on Atelier Waldlaterne is about websites, photoshop and various aspects of photography and prints. Photoshop is a computer program to create and/or manipulate graphics and the websites that appear here are the ones we've made so far. Also in this section are some observations and advice concerning how to make websites/galleries/albums etc. from the stacks of digital pictures many people have stored on CD-ROM's and computer hard-drives.

Waldlaterne Webdesign

Carrying a Bucket of Water to the Ocean

There really are plenty websites out there already and I do not suppose that the few I've made will have had a massive impact overall. On the other hand, just as the water in the bucket may want nothing other than to quietly blend in, so are these websites quietly content to be counted amongst the many.

Anyway, it's a challenge to code and design websites and come up with something new, and more important, they who are owning these sites are happy.

Photoshop

altering photographs on the computer

Artizing photographs is how one could describe what I sometimes use Photoshop for. Turning a mostly digital photograph into something which is not a poster, nor a watercolour painting, nor an oil painting or a pastel, but something in between.

This is done by applying some filters in Photoshop, like Posterize, which is reducing the number of tonal levels, or brightness values in an image to create large, flat areas in a photograph; Cutout, which portrays an image as though it were made from roughly cut-out pieces of colored paper; and Dry Brush, which paints the edges of the image using a dry brush technique (between oil and watercolor) thereby filter simplifying the image by reducing its range of colors to areas of common color. (Descriptions of filters from the Photoshop documentation).