Gary Williams Photography » Photoshop http://garywilliamsphoto.com/blog Select landscape images from California Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:14:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Textures And Blending Modes–Moss Landing 2 http://garywilliamsphoto.com/blog/2012/01/09/textures-and-blending-modes-moss-landing-2/ http://garywilliamsphoto.com/blog/2012/01/09/textures-and-blending-modes-moss-landing-2/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:39:19 +0000 admin http://garywilliamsphoto.com/blog/?p=1415 Photograph of boats in the fog at Moss Landing harbor blended with a background texture appliedA shot near the commercial fish dock on a foggy morning at the Moss Landing Harbor. The texture of the peeling paint was applied in the Overlay blend mode at 100% opacity. I like the way the birds seem to emerge from the holes in the paint.

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Here is a link to photoradar.com.

]]> http://garywilliamsphoto.com/blog/2011/12/08/textures-and-blending-modes-poppy-preserve/feed/ 0 Polar Coordinates and the Pelican http://garywilliamsphoto.com/blog/2010/03/02/polar-coordinates-and-the-pelican/ http://garywilliamsphoto.com/blog/2010/03/02/polar-coordinates-and-the-pelican/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:16:04 +0000 admin http://garywilliamsphoto.com/blog/?p=256 photograph of a brown pelican distorted by a Photoshop filterToday’s post is another example of using Photoshop’s Polar Coordinates filter to radically transform an image. I explained the process here in Monday’s post. The original image (scroll down to see) is of a brown pelican drying its feathers on a boat dock in Moss Landing, California. The distorted image emphasizes the sweep of the bill and the wing feathers but leaves the eye distinct, a nice touch, I think.

photograph of a brown pelican drying its wings at Moss Landing, California

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