Happy New Year!

[Mhayes]

Happy New Year Everyone!

Check out the new home page as I have updated and hit the "Read More" at the bottom to take you to the OPR Blog. I think you will enjoy reading the news article written by Autumn Allison, journalism student at Belmont University in Nashville, TN.

Margie

[kiska]

Very nice write up, Margie! :up2:

[Hannie]

The homepage looks good!
Thanks Margie and thanks for all that you do for OPR!

Happy New Year to everyone and thanks for all the great restores and hard work!



Hannie

[Jonas.Wendorf]

Nice write up, Margie :-)!


A happy new year to everyone, hope it'll be successful to all of you!

Jonas

[Hannie]

Anybody there?... there?...   there?...... there?........

[kevinashworth]

I'm here, lurking about in the background.

Here's a laugh - now these photos aren't damaged, but they are bad...

http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/

[Hannie]

These are hilarious!  The comments are great, like the family expressing their true colors.   :)

Hannie

[Charlene5]

Thanks for that Kev, it made me laugh.  Not easy to make a sour old woman laugh!

I've just discovered the blessing within the busy, busy, busy polyester print in my new fixer upper.  It is very forgiving.  I've actually (wait for this) painted in small bits of the damaged print, and with a bit of artistic blurring and dabbing with spot healing brush it looks like new.   Speaking of which -

I recently got a new notebook and His Lordship decided it would be a swell idea to buy me the CS5 upgrade.  I wasn't thrilled but gushed a lot.  I didn't think there was anything that would really impress me but there is - the spot healing brush with "content aware" choice ticked.  Some brilliant person at Adobe got rid of the tool's awful habit of dragging in every shade around it, whether it belongs there or not.  After some trial and error I discovered that if I'm very careful with the size of the brush - setting it to very soft and just a bit bigger than what I'm trying to hide - it does a very creditable job.  I still revert to the clone stamp when the light/dark is just too close, but on the whole that one tool was almost worth the pain of the upgrade.

[kevinashworth]

I'd like to have a look at one you're fixing Charlene. Any tricks to make ol' CS2 work in my favour are welcome.

[Hannie]

(I just had to try out my moderating skills and I thought this would be a good opportunity!  :))

Charlene's post (and Kev's reaction) have been moved to OPR Workshop - Moderate (topic name is Charlene's Workshop)

http://www.operationphotorescue.org/forum/index.php?topic=2968.0

Thanks,

Hannie