DigiLO: New look..

My new look.. Wenn said, "Mommy, you looked so messy.. please wash your hair".. :D

See also:

1. DigiLO: Pianica
2. LO: All our dreams..
3. Paper LO: My First Snow
4. 2 LOs for the final legs: Clue #23 - Finishing LIne!! Last clue *All Play*
5. thot i din't do myself justice..

LO: Happy Me - Happy Mother's Day 2009

Ken was so excited to present me the below card and box he made last friday.. as soon as he got off the school bus, he shoved them to me.. :).. such a sweet boy.. as for wenn, he said, kiss me is enough.. practical, indeed.

See also:
1. Happy Mother's Day 2008
2. LO: Love, Mommy (muffin from Ken)

Tutorial: Black and White with some parts colored using Photoshop CS3

Step 1. Make color pictures into black and white
1. Open your image file in Photoshop CS3.
2. Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Channel Mixer.


3. Click OK.


4. Checked / Ticked the Monochrome check box.
5. Adjust the Red, Green, Blue percentage. These 3 values need to add up to be 100%


Note: If you stop here, this is how you can convert regular color digital photos into black and white photos.

Step 2. Highlight the objects you want colored
1. Select Brush Tool.
2. Set Foreground Color to black and Background color to white.


3. Select a brush size. Here I selected 50 px.


4. Paint over the area which you want colored with the brush. Adjust the size of the brush as needed.


5. Opps, I painted a wrong area. How? Just switch the foreground to be white and background to be black and paint over the "wrong" area. Or you can un-do, of course.

Taa-daa.. so, this is how you can make your digital images or pictures into Black and White with some parts colored using Photoshop CS3.. here are the before and after:

Biow Tutorial: Black and White with some parts colored using Photoshop CS3

See also:
1. Tutorial: Adding copyright watermark to your images using Photoshop
2. Biow Tutorial: Animate series of images with Photoshop CS3
3. Tutorial: Reflection effect in PS
4. Reference: Photoshop Magnifying Glass Tutorial
5. Reference: Add Speech Balloons and Text Bubbles to Your Photos in Photoshop or Elements Tutorial

DigiLO: Pianica

online digital scrapbook without photoshop

I got an SOS YM message from a friend of mine (who is a paper scrapbook-er, never done DigiLO before):
fren (02-07-2008 8:19:48 PM): help! my office knows that i do SB, and ask me to 'teach' how to SB during RnR time!!!!!
fren (02-07-2008 8:20:31 PM): I need help in Digi scrapbooking...which one has easiest things to pick up and can run on internet one ...dun think office lap top has photoshop lah!!! help pls!!!!
my reply to her:
Biow (02-07-2008 8:39:27 PM): i gotta ask google leh

And.. I found this:

scrapblog
This site allows you to create your OWN scrapbook ONLINE without having you install anything.. err, ok, mabbe you need to install one thing, ie Flash.. but in this day, most PC comes with Flash already.. you just need to drag-and-drop using this online scrapbook tool.. AND, it does NOT intimidate.. you don't feel lost, or overwhelmed.. trust me.. i felt like a BIG damn fool looking at Photoshop.. i can't even draw a filled rectangle with Photoshop during my first use.. it's just not intuitive.. Photoshop takes time to learn.. and this scrapblog tool is intuitive and user friendly.. a challenge in my field of work.. to create something user friendly.. so, really salute the people behind this site.. though it's slow, it's really understandable..

You may also save your scrapblog pages to your computer. Just click on “File” and then on “Export as JPEG”.. imagine able to download the Scrapbook you have created as .jpg file.. you can also link to photobucket, picasa, youtube, etc, to get your photos or video.. and then you can even publish to Facebook.. Try it! Explore this online digital scrapbook tool without the need of photoshop.. AMAZING.

so problem solve.. everyone can sleep easily now.. keke.. but have you heard of "blue deeper than indigo itself"? something that means the student surpass the master.. she now becomes the master.. heh.. she's a phantom, so i pixelate her face.. bwahaha.. now we are even.. we don't owe each other kopi anymore.. OK?.. below is her master piece..

LO by my phantom friend:

Tutorial: Animate series of images with Photoshop CS3

I kept forgetting how to animate a group of photos in a folder using Photoshop CS3.. in Image Ready it was as easy as "Import > Folder as Frames".. But ever since ImageReady is merged into Photoshop CS3, I simply do not know where / how to start.. decided to create a tutorial for myself once and for all.. and, if anyone of you may be interested, right click on the link below and save.. pardon my english.. and if the guide is not helpful, lemme know how i can improve it.. thanks..

Tutorial: Animate series of images with Photoshop CS3

The equivalent in Image Ready "Import > Folder as Frames" Summary:
In Photoshop CS3, do the following steps:

1. Select File > Scripts > Load files into Stack.
2. In the Load Layers dialog box, select Folder from the Use menu. Browse to the folder that contains the images you want to include and click OK.
3. Select Make Frames from Layers in the Animation palette menu.

But alas, there are also slideshow by Picasa which you can embed!.. so don't need to be so ma huan to animate yourself..

See also:
1. Tutorial: Reflection effect in PS
2. Reference: Photoshop Magnifying Glass Tutorial
3. Reference: Add Speech Balloons and Text Bubbles to Your Photos in Photoshop or Elements Tutorial