GALLERY ROW

Pictures, Prints & Photoshop

plus a handful of web sites

This destination on Waldmark's Web is about pictures, prints and websites. Pictures are photographs; prints are hand coloured 19th Century caricatures; photoshop is a computer program to create and/or manipulate graphics and the web sites that appear here are the ones I've made. Also in this section 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 harddrives.

Personal Archives

Scans from negatives and transparencies

Many rolls of film ended up in acrylic sheets. Then one day I decided to try and see how much they would reveal to a simple flatbed scanner.

I was amazed at their quality after 30 odd years or so. More than adequate for reproduction on the web. So I rummaged a little through those sheets. Every now and then I will put some more negs on the scanner, filter them through Photoshop and add them on this website.

The same for slides. These were photographed over a period of many years.

Caricatures & Prints

Hand coloured 19th Century caricatures
and hand coloured prints

In Scotland Jolanda took private lessons from Colin, an artist living near Edinburgh, and she continued to master the art of applying water colour paints to enhance the illustrative and esthetic appeal of caricatures and prrints. In the long gone days before colour printing techniques were invented, this was common practice, but the art has almost died out.

Over the years, Jolanda has worked on hundreds and hundreds of illustrations and has become exceptionally good at enhancing the atmosphere of a scene or location through the use of colour. On this website we're presenting some of her work (not yet implemented).

Photoshop

altering photographs on the computer

Artizing photographs is how one could describe what I sometise 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).