Theme Tweaking & Photoshop
September 10th, 2007 by SarahI can think of countless ways to waste time online, however this weekend my attention was drawn towards finding a new theme and tweaking it. Though I didn’t have a great reason for needing a new one, there were too many things wrong with the theme I had. It would not allow for anything additional in the header, it was not widget friendly, and every time I edited a post, I would have to fix many funky line changes that would appear. So I found a new theme and went to work on personalizing it for my own likes.
Part of this process was the time consuming, but well worthwhile, hunt for Photoshop tutorials. Having been in love with this software for the past 5 years, I can tell you there is always something new and fun that can be done with it. For example, popping a person or object off the page:
selectively coloring a person or object:
Framing a photo:
or in this case, making your pictures resemble those that came with the original theme:
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I am aware that I should be focusing more of my energy on content than appearance, but since I seem to be lacking in ideas, I thought I would update anyone stopping and let you know that I haven’t dropped off the planet.
September 10th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
Wow! All I can say is . . . wow! Nice post.
September 10th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
My husband got me elements for our anniversary and it won’t run right since my computer needs more memory to accommodate it. So now I wait. And I’m not above pouting. Especially when I see your cute creations.
September 10th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
I love Photoshop, too! I love your popping a person out of the photo effect! I haven’t seen one quite like that before! That’s very cool! I’m looking forward to some of your tutorials on the message board forum!
Jessica
September 11th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Carrie: Once you have it on your computer you are never going to leave the house again. You can find so many amazing tutorials for fun effects in addition to the standard photo touch up that I can no longer live without. You may need to turn up the pitch on the whining to get it going, lol.
Rock Chick: I finished the tutorial finally over @ Damien’s forum. I hope it is coherent enough to be useful. Let me know.