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Category Archives: Photoshop

evening performance in the pouring rain of Hanoi, Vietnam

CFFC: Dark & Light

January 4, 2017by Albatz Travel Adventures 6 Comments

Situations that are primarily dark and light usually make for dramatic photos. Here are some of my favourites. Indoors without flash. Walking the dog at Illuminate Yaletown in Vancouver, Canada. My […]

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Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Photoshop
Abandoned Garage in Chinatown

Weekly Photo Challenge: Abandoned, Reworked in a Photo App

March 6, 2014by Albatz Travel Adventures 5 Comments

Looking at other people’s work on this challenge, I saw that by using Instagram they were able to make their photos of abandoned places look even more ancient and neglected. […]

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Photo Challenges, Photoshop, Weekly Photo Challenge
Gravensteen at night

Weekly Photo Challenge: Eerie Gravensteen Castle

November 2, 2013by Albatz Travel Adventures 9 Comments

To make Ghent’s Gravensteen Kasteel (Castle) more spooky they have turned it into a medieval torture museum. To make my photos more eerie I have played around with most of […]

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Belgium, Photo Challenges, Photoshop, Weekly Photo Challenge
Fatehpur Sikri in Agra

A Word a Week Photo Challenge: Silhouettes in India

October 9, 2013by Albatz Travel Adventures 3 Comments

The ‘Word of the Week’ this week is silhouette. So I thought I’d see if I could fix some of my less interesting silhouettes in Photoshop, layering patterns and silhouettes. These images […]

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India, Photoshop
Holyman in Photoshop

Mixed Media Struggle 2: How Do I Stop Centering Everything?

October 4, 2013by Albatz Travel Adventures 5 Comments

My Indian Holyman Painting: Dispelling Fear and Offering Benediction. June 13, 2011. I haven’t painted for 11 years and now it’s hard to get it going again! Everything that I […]

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Art, Painting, Photoshop
playing with my scribble painting in Photoshop

Mixed Media Struggle 1: Using Photoshop to Second Guess Myself on a Problem Painting

October 2, 2013by Albatz Travel Adventures 1 Comment

In my second class my ‘scribble’ painting had taken off in the wrong direction. My original plan was to feature a larger scribbled swoop on top of the scribble image […]

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Art, Painting, Photoshop

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