House in Progress Diary

Looks fabulous! I love Photoshop, too. My sister (the photography major) taught me how to use the history brush ... that was fun. I vintage-ized a picture of my divine pink mixer and the green cupcakes I made with it:
Lovely Mixer

Ooooo, Kristin, how did you do that - what's the history brush?

Just looovely.

Kristin--What a cool mixer!

Susan--Oh man! You got a DOG with your bungalow??? We had to supply our own. What a cute pup!

Thanks for the compliments on my mixer. She is blushing even pinker now.

Basically, the history brush lets you restore certain areas of a photo to a previous state. What I did with the mixer photo was turn it black and white, then with the history brush painted back in an area, and the color comes back. I have Photoshop 7.0, and I'm not sure the earlier versions have this feature. There's probably some other way to do the same thing, though ... maybe with copy and pasting.

k - (off topic)

One way to get to new colors is to make the image black and white. On a layer above, fill with any color. Make that color layer transparent to like 20% or whatever. Erase on the color layer what should remain in black+white (or get back to original color).

That's how I made the pink in this:
[ Chihuahua on a pink vespa ]
[ original image ]

and how I did this:
[ imagining a painted house, with foliage ]

WOW COOL!!! This is so ON TOPIC!

I love this. I gotta try it.

Ha ha!
The fact that its now after 4 PM and I'm just now checking my blogs should give you an idea of how hectic a day its been today seeing as its usually the first thing I do in the morning.

JM, it the original pic of your house, it looks like the upper story dormer has some kind of shingling or roofing material on the exterior wall. What is that? Curiousity runneth over my cup, so to speak.

I love Photoshop. I teach beginning, intermediate, and advanced courses for our faculty. They should probably be called "Superduper Just Getting Started" "So this is cropping and resizing" and "Beginning Photoshop" but I still love teaching them. The history tool is really handy, but I prefer to just play with layers - B+W layer over color layer, set layer two opacity to about 20%, set brush size really high, then use eraser tool set to airbrush to delete more of the B+W layer or use the color picker or magic wand to select and then delete sections of the B+W layer. Variations are endless I suppose.

I tried to give our house a makeover with photoshop, including putting a new deck off the masterbedroom and residing T-111 portion of the house with log siding with some limited success.
http://photos1.blogger.com/img/13/1423/1024/ccmakeover.jpg

here is what the house actually looks like:
http://photos1.blogger.com/img/13/1423/1024/DSCF0016.2.jpg

I originally got the idea from the gals over at House Made:
http://housemade.blogspot.com/

I concur - cute dog.