My photography has been incorporated into a mural!

[intheflow]

My friend is a muralist, and she took two of my photos and put them into a mural in Berthoud, CO. Here she is as EEGrrl on Halloween, when she was finishing up the mural in full costume. (That's her lovely assistant, Little Red Riding Hood, on the lift with her.)



This photo illustrates just how small Berthoud is. That's pretty much downtown Berthoud. The mural is painted on the tallest structure in town, an abandoned grain storage building.



Here's closeup of the mural.



The horses belonged to an ex and his brothers in Massachusetts. The photo was taken when another brother was brought a new horse to board at the farm.




The dog is my beloved Ziggy who was poisoned by a former Freeper neighbor. :cry: He was such a great dog, he deserved to be immortalized.




EEGrrl designed this mural using Photoshop, btw. She cut out many individual shots from several different photographers and pasted them on a background she had built with layered shots. And she obviously flipped my photos around to suit her design needs. So those are other examples of what Photoshop can do. I aspire to be that adept at Photoshop! :)

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1. That is so cool and

really neat that Ziggy is there. :bounce:
Though how anyone could poison a dog, they'd have to be a freeper and a few other unkind words I am not typing. :grr:

On PhotoShop, best way to learn it is to just play in it doing different things. Any simple beginner book that is short and to the point should get you started ok. I swear by the Dummies books for students having a hard time. Also look for Photo Expo type stuff in your area that has vendors showing their wares. Adobe usually has a booth that they spend all day showing you how to do different stuff in PhotoShop. They want you to like it, learn it and keep buying it.

[intheflow]

2. I've been playing with Photoshop for 7 years now.

I learn new stuff every day. I have a very hard time with the magnetic lasso tool, it just doesn't work well. EEGrrl has a much easier time, and I think the difference may be that she has a Mac and I work with with a HP, Micorsoft-based system. I'd really like to try working with a stylus pad.

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3. I'm on a Vaio at home

and hate the Macs at school to put it mildly. Have you tried the other lassos? There seems to be five ways to do everything in photoshop. I actually like the freehand lasso better at home but the polygonal lasso on the Mac. Quickmask isn't too bad for most things either. My mouse dies I will have to relearn the lasso with a new one or break down and get a wacom tablet. I never liked the magnetic lasso. The other thing to try is the path tool (pen looking thing) It makes cleaner lines and arcs once you get used to it. And as one instructor says Layers, layers layers....layers are your friend. I really do spend all day at work helping students learn the basics in photoshop so ask away as long as it is a beginning question. If you want I can try and get some of the notes from the instructors classes and send to you. I think they are on the server now and all doc files.


Bedtime, way too many typos in here. lol

[ET Awful]

5. The magnetic lasso tool works wonderfully if you're using a tablet

:). Other than that, it's just a nightmare.

You can get a small Wacom tablet (which works GREAT for photo editing, not so good for drawing, etc.) for about $99 (and it comes with Photoshop Elements and a few other software packages. The Elements alone would cost you around $80 elsewhere). Well worth the cash :).

[intheflow]

6. Only $99?

Hmmm... I think a well-dropped hint to my Sweetie about this post combined with Christmas coming, and maybe I'll be able to get that tablet! :thumbsup:

The Photoshop I have is Elements, but I suppose getting the most up-to-date version wouldn't hurt, either. Thanks, ET Awful! :hi:

[ET Awful]

7. Yup, just get a 4x6 Graphire4 tablet.

I've got one and it works perfectly for what I need it for.

A larger one would be nice, but not a necessity by any means.

You can also get refurbished ones at good prices straight from Wacom :).

[F.Gordon]

4. Amazin'

It's not just that your photographs were used, it's that you've had a part of your life frozen in space and time. Next time we're up in Berthoud I'll be sure to wave and say "Hi" to Ziggy.

[intheflow]

8. "Frozen in space and time."

Interesting that you should use that phrase, F.Gordon. That's art of the allure of photography for me in the first place, that it takes a slice of what we humans perceive as linear time and freezes it. Every photo is a time capsule of a unique moment in human and natural experience. So what I think is so interesting is not so much that Zig is captured in time and space in the mural, but that he is captured in time and space 15 feet tall! LOL! (Not bad for a 45 lb. dog!)

[Immad2]

9. That is wonderful intheflow!

The muralist did an excellent job with your great pictures!

[RagingInMiami]

10. Now your work is becoming immortal

As long as they don't paint over that mural