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[readinthemargin]

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[dinoadventures]

cool photo. the fishnets rock

[readinthemargin]

thanks, do I know you?

[dinoadventures]

hehe, you do now, sorta. feel free to sort through my journal.

mind if i add you?

[readinthemargin]

sure, be my guest. I'm curious how you found me, though--you're a photographer..so..one of those LJ image-randomizers?

[dinoadventures]

http://fresh-elements.com/web/LJ.php my very own. very clever.

[readinthemargin]

wow, that's great! oh man, I shouldn't look, I'll get addicted.

[dinoadventures]

best part about mine is that you can modify the URL to view more images at a time.

for example,

http://fresh-elements.com/web/LJ.php?n=200 will show you the 200 most recent images.

it's amazingly addictive, as you say.

[iwannabekate]

what's funny about those things is it kind of proves that everyone on livejournal is the same.

I include myself in this.

[readinthemargin]

yes, yes it does, like...I didn't even let half the page load and there was 1 quiz image, 1 friends-only image, a scenester girls picture, and a couple making out. hm.

[dinoadventures]

babies and pets are popular also.

so are bad self-portrait shots taken from overhead with the flash on.

[readinthemargin]

oh yeah, I love doing those, whooo being over-exposed and hiding blemishes.

[dinoadventures]

i dunno, the blown-out exposures are so two-years-ago.

speaking of hiding blemishes, i was charged with the task of retouching my dad the other day.

here's how that turned out:
http://www.fresh-elements.com/images/misc/dad2.jpg

[readinthemargin]

that's niiiice, what kind of brushes did you use?

[dinoadventures]

umm...healing brush mostly. i made a pattern of some skin i smoothed out manually and made it sample from the pattern.

it worked out okay, i think.

it was really uncool of him to drop this on me at the last second. reminds me of why i live alone, lol.

[readinthemargin]

yeaaaah. I was thinking of getting PhotoshopElements but they say it runs so slow and is so hard to figure out that I think I might just stick with the basic program I have.

[dinoadventures]

photoshop's speed depends largely on the file sizes you have. i work on a super-fast computer at home, but at work i use an extremely old mac. even my old mac still handles giant images for press work that i do with reasonable quickness.

it's a lot of fun. i definitely recommend getting it. if you ever decide to step up to the full version, PhotoShop CS Artistry is probably the best book ever for learning it.