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hellziggy ([personal profile] hellziggy) wrote2006-10-09 12:24 am
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Remember me?

I haven't been around much lately...
Blame school & James!
Most of today was spent doing homework. But I have a kick-ass layout done that looks like it is right out of the pages of Q magazine!
Just sent an up-to-date file of the Coverville playlists to Brian for his ASCAP, BMI, etc licensing. He's just hit show #250!
Yesterday afternoon was lunch with [livejournal.com profile] genevra and two of our old high school friends. It's nice to see them, but my life is so different from theirs now that I have a hard time communicating and just plain relaxing. There's just not a lot in common any more. Then when I got home Saturday afternoon, [livejournal.com profile] hellbob told me that we were going to go out to dinner with Jeanine and a guy she's currently dating. We tried to go to some Dim Sum place, but it was closed for a private party. We ended up at Big Bowl instead, and the food was way yummy as usual.
As y'all saw in my previous post, on Friday night Moose & I met John Hodgman. We also got to meet author Neal Pollack and musician Jonathan Coulton. [livejournal.com profile] hellbob was tired and not really looking forward to going, and [livejournal.com profile] lucky13charm had to go to Iowa to sing in a wedding, so when I got home from work on Friday I set about looking for someone to go with me. [livejournal.com profile] camel0t wanted to but she already had plans. She did have the brilliant idea of checking with her man, Ty, to see if he was interested. He was and I think he had a pretty good time.
And now it is late on Sunday night and so I'm gonna go to bed!

*EDIT*
D'oh! So I blame James for my non-postiness and don't say how he's contributed... Yes, I am still working on the over-abundance of pictures from the Queen Mary. Also, since meeting them on the boat I joined the Yahoo group where many fabulous women hang out, and those girls never shut up! It's exhausting trying to keep up with them. *waves at MS contingent* The phone's ready, give me a call!

[identity profile] spikespet7.livejournal.com 2006-10-11 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
LOL

talk talk talk talk........how goes it with the pics....I can't wait to see your stuff......I bet they are fantasic.......


Kimber

MS is addicting......oh what fun it is too.........

[identity profile] hellziggy.livejournal.com 2006-10-11 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
I uploaded over 100 more last nite...
http://www.dreamflyte.com/gallery/MarstersSaturdayQM
I am now done with the Q & A and have started on the HLOD commentary.
My incentive to get off my ass and get them done is that I'm going in order and the oh-so-yummy black t-shirt/floppy hair ones are post Teachers.

[identity profile] spikespet7.livejournal.com 2006-10-11 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I love your pics.......can I has how you are editing them? Or did they come out that crisp in color.......I just bought the photoshop and was just wokring with automatic contrast and color thingy......


Kimber

[identity profile] hellziggy.livejournal.com 2006-10-11 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
This picture:


started out looking like this:


I opened it in PhotoShop.
First I cropped it in a smidge: I set my rectangular marquee tool at fixed aspect of 2 by 3 because that's the proportion of the original image, set where I wanted it to crop, and from the menu selected Image > crop.
Then I opened the Levels dialog: Image > Adjustments > Levels, or Cmd-L (Ctrl-L on a PC)
For these white shirt ones I just adjusted the RGB channel: I slid the middle input to about 1.35 and the white input (the one on the right) to about 181.
Then I put the copyright on using a brush I made with the text.

Some of the other pics needed more color adjustment, but these mostly just needed lightening.

I never use the auto contrast or color, but I usually just eyeball it as I'm adjusting color. And if I have a bunch of pictures that all have about the same lighting (like the Friday concert) I'll record an action of the levels adjustment so I can just hit play on that to do the adjustment.