Taking My Art Outdoors

Today I'm taking my art outside cos the weather has been so nice. The world is my gallery! To celebrate I decided to do something a bit different. When TW takes a pic that's too dark, we use the Auto Tone or Auto Color to brighten it. That, in fact, takes the yellow out of pics with artificial lighting. If it's still too dark, we try the levels adjustment. Occasionally the images will turn out usable and sometimes they turn out artsy like my lead photo on Wednesday.

If TW is trying to make a pic lighter, she clicks on the far right brush and clicks a light part of the image. Not having taken any Photoshop classes, she doesn't know if what she's doing is right or wrong but it tends to help more than the exposure setting and is quicker than playing with the brightness/contrast.

To make this art, she selected the light tone dropper. Instead of playing by the rules and clicking on my white chest, she selected on my dark Russian Blue furs. The result is almost a pastel drawing.

Then we played around with the midtones and got a very colorful, almost posterized effect. No one would believe that's a red wall behind me. Heh heh.

I figured you guys are tired of that first pic, so I played with another one from the same set of pics. Instead of levels, we decided to play with curves and then we used the accented edges filter. I hope you can biggify it to see the precious look on my face.

I'll bet you guys with Photoshop Elements can play around with this too and come up with some inneresting art. On the other hand, you guys who know PS are prolly shaking your heads. Sometimes ignorance can turn into some blissful art. Did you ever click something you didn't mean to and create something wonderful?

Thanks to Athena Cat Goddess Wise Kitty for hosting the Caturday Art Blog Hop so I can mess around with Photoshop and all the cool online apps that are so easy a cat can do them.

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