Keep smiling!
Every morning, ..walking through the corniche, so many faces pass by so fast..
…day by day a passing face got clearer and clearer…
..day by day we started to exchange smiles..
…day by day we expect to meet each other…
‘Just for a Smile’
couple of months went by…’smiling’
Last month, we stopped to talk to eachother
We had such a beautiful conversation, which ignited a new friendship..
Sadly, last week I came to know the truth about my new friend; …my friend is dying.
The last words I heard from my friend was….
‘Keep Smiling! Your smiles made me smile! ‘
“A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find out in the end that it was never bound to be and you just have to let go.”
Thanks Sara, Ed for pulling me out of my depressed mood through emails. Sometimes a look, a smile, a miss call, a single word email could make you feel special and make a huge difference.
Thanks Buds!
4Tp: Frost Frame!
Software used: Photoshop CS2 (Features used: Layers, Layer blending options & Marque tool )
Step-by-Step Instructions:
1. Open up an image, with the subject in center, in Photoshop, preferably a portrait!!! 
2. Goto Layer > Duplicate Layer… and when the pop-up appears, name the duplicate layer “Frame”.
3. Goto Filter > Distort > Glass. Adjust the settings > Distortion=7, Smoothness=7, Texture-Frosted, Scaling 150%. Do play around with the settings. Its not gonna hurt you! 
4. With the “Frame” layer active, select the Rectangular Marquee tool(Click ‘M’). Now simply click & hold, and drag over the ‘Frame’ layer, like an inner frame. If you are not happy with your selection, simply click anywhere; and try again!
5. Once you are done with your inner frame, click Ctrl+X. (to remove the selected part from the ‘Frame’ layer!)
6. You wont see much difference at this point! Relax With the Frame layer active, Goto Layer> Layer Style> Blending options. (a new window opens)
7. Click Drop shadow – Adjust Settings: Blend mode = Multiply, Opacity 90%, Angle = 120(doesn’t matter anyways, so leave it as it is), Distance = 0, Spread = 21, Size = 57. ( Try variations..as always! especially size & spread)
8. Click OK!
9. Now to spice up a little bit Goto Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation. Adjust saturation slider to -24.
10. Okaaay! If you like the looks of the frame at this point. You better save it right now!
Hope I’m not boring you all with these kinda silly tutorials!
Waiting for your comments
…wish I had the key!!! SundayStills: Landscape – Fall Foliage!
Hi Friends
My sweetheart (niece)! …enjoying the essence of nature!!
….Bandipur forest, India!
.. Snowdonia,Wales-United Kingdom!
Hope you all are having a great weekend! For more Fall Foliage Landscapes, click Here!
4Tp: Copyright Watermark!
Hi folks, Today’s
topic is Copyright Watermark!
I do remember, once blog buddy ~ Jennifer asked me about, How to stamp copyright watermark on top of the photographs? It is very useful to protect your photographs, when you post your photos in less secured sites/servers!
Hope you like today’s Tut! Feel free to ask me more on variations of copyright watermarks!!!
Software used: Photoshop CS2 (Features used: Layers, Pattern & Layer blending options)
Step 1: Open A New Blank Document With A Transparent Background
Go to File > New > to bring up the New Document dialog box.
(enter 6 inches for the width, 4 inches for the height, and 300 pixels/inch for the resolution.)
For Background Contents > Transparent (by clicking on the drop down menu)
Click OK!!
Step 2: Type Your Copyright Information
Grab your Type tool from the Tools palette or by pressing T on your keyboard.
Then press D on your keyboard to set black as your foreground color if it isn’t already, and enter your copyright information.
Select Font & its size from the above tool bar.(Try a bigger size this time!)
To access the copyright symbol “©”,
Press Option-G on a Mac, or hold down the Alt key on Windows and enter 0169 on the numeric keypad. I entered
“Copyright © 2009 WB Photography”
(An easier way to get the copyright sign ~ just copy the above sign and paste it where you want it)
Step 3: Rotate The Text With Free Transform
The copyright watermark tends to look better with the text rotated a bit, so once you’ve entered your text,
Press Ctrl+T (Win) / Command+T (Mac) to bring up the Free Transform handles around your text,
then place your mouse cursor just outside one of the corner handles and drag left or right with your mouse to rotate the text. Hold down the Shift key as you drag to rotate in nice, even increments!
Press Enter (Win) or Return (Mac) to apply the rotation when you’re done.
Step 4: Trim The Document Around The Text
Go to the Image menu > Trim.
(This brings up the Trim dialog box).We want to trim away all the extra space around the text, and since all the extra space is made up of transparent pixels, Select the first option > Transparent Pixels
Click OK, and Photoshop trims away all the extra space around the text
Step 5: Define The Text As A Pattern
Go up to the Edit > Define Pattern.
(We‘re going to create a pattern out of our copyright information. The Pattern Name dialog box appears)
Name your new pattern “copyright” and then click OK.
Step 6: Close The Copyright Document
We’ve done everything we need to do with our copyright document, so go ahead and close out of it at this point. No need to save anything!!
Open an image in photoshop, which you want to watermark with copyright!
Step 7: Add A New Layer In The Original Image Document
Back in our original image document, we currently have one layer, the Background layer, which contains our image. We don’t want to add our copyright information directly to the Background layer, so either click on the New Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers palette or use the keyboard shortcut Shift+Ctrl+Alt+N (Win) / Shift+Command+Option+N
(Mac) to create a new layer above the Background layer, which Photoshop names “Layer 1″:
Step 8: Fill The New Layer With The Copyright Pattern
With our new layer selected in the Layers palette,
Go to the Edit menu > Fill, which brings up the Fill dialog box. For “Contents”, click on the down-pointing arrow and Select Pattern from the list!
Then, with Pattern selected, click on the little thumbnail image beside the words Custom Pattern and then choose your copyright pattern from the list that appears. It will be the last pattern at the bottom!!
Click OK!
(and your new layer is filled with a repeating pattern of your copyright information)
Step 9: Change The Blend Mode To “Overlay” and Lower The Opacity
The only problem now is that the text is too prominent. It’s blocking much of the image from view.
To fix that, with the new layer selected, go up to the layer blend mode options in the top left of the Layers palette,(click F7 for layer palette, if its missing)
Click on the down-pointing arrow beside the word “Normal” and select Overlay from the list.
Then move over to the Opacity option beside it and reduce the opacity as needed. I tried 60% and you can see the results below!!!!
You can try other words, instead of copyright! You can also try a single line of words in the centre of the photograph, with the layer blending options as above! or just play with it! Layer blending options are too coooool!!!!
You can even stamp a personal signature of yours on your photographs! Just like mine!! How?? Maybe next week!
Take care!
