Photoshopped Out

I’m back from my urban foray. Photoshop is hugely complex (like we didn’t know this already) and I’m worried that if I don’t put into practice all these things I just learned, they’ll fade away.

At left is a photo of San Francisco from Judy’s house in Berkeley where I was staying (thanks Judy). This is the house Numenius grew up in, so it was sort of fun to poke about the nooks and crannies of this Arts & Crafts vertical dwelling.

New in Photoshop CS, though we don’t have the ability to do it with our cameras, is Raw editing; lens blur and average filters have uses that aren’t altogether obvious, and the file browser is much slicker. I won’t be upgrading just yet—there are other priorities.

It’s amazing to be around 2,500 people who are as excited about all this as I am; there were obvious cliques of Designers versus Photographers, but everyone got along. Watching our teachers duke it out in the afternoon today during Photoshop Wars was quite entertaining.