WOW…I must say that this week has been rough. Working with Pixlr is not easy, I had a lot of trouble! Even though Pixlr is a web base application and it is supposed to be simpler and less complex than Photoshop it was still very difficult dealing with it. I must say that the hardest part of this whole header process is figuring it out how to clone and blend in two different images in one. I spent a good amount of hours trying to play around with the saturation, sponge and the lasso tool in order to figure out how the two images were going to blend in. As this process of messing around, I found the tool called the “wand”. The wand is much simpler than using the lasso tool because it automatically knows where are the parts or backgrounds that you want to remove. In other words the wand is very convenient. Finally, I realized that messing around with the saturation, brightness & contrast was not going to help me much blend in the two images together. The main tool that is need is called “opacity”, and of course this tool was hidden very well. I took a while to figure out where this tool was located. After, I learned a little bit about Pixlr I could definitely use it to edit some of my own photography pictures. I use Picassa, which allows you to do some changes but nothing major. However, now that I am getting the hang of using Pixly my photography editing are going to come out much better and I can do much more with it such as cloning and removing unwanted things from my pictures. So, now let me explain a little bit about my pictures. I wanted to show my readers a little bit about myself and what I like, and there was no better header to create than blending in a camera and the beach. Taking pictures and messing around with a photography camera is one of my hobbies. I love taking pictures of objects and uncommon things that are not seen by an ordinary eyes. On the other hand, the beach is one of my favorite spots to hang out. Since I was little I used to love the beach and how the waves was so different time to time, I simply loved everything about the beach! In this header, you may wonder why is the camera on top of the beach, but the idea behind it that I am using the object I love which is the “camera” and shooting a picture of my favorite place, the “beach”. I hope you guys understand where the idea behind my banner comes from and here is some pictures from my personal portfolio that I edit using Pixlr…
Here is the Portuguese sentence for the week:
Como esta você?
(How are you?)
See you soon!
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