The other day a lovely picture of my son and granddaughter,
Tsunami, was posted on facebook. It was a picture of Brendan holding Tsunami
and they were hanging a decoration on their tree. I guess it may be because I
am a proud grandpa, but this is the most beautiful Christmas photo I have seen
in a long while. It seems to capture the essence of the season for me and will
for a number of years to come.
Shortly after I saw the picture I was wondering if I could Photoshop
a picture so that it appeared to be in a snow globe. It turns out that it is
quite possible and if you have twelve minutes to watch a video, a copy of
Photoshop and an unknown amount of time to spend on a fairly steepish learning
curve. I decided to make the attempt today and use the aforementioned picture
as a subject.
I had a slow start, but with surprisingly successful
results. Well, I managed to make a glass like circle that would eventually
become the globe part of the snow globe. From there on, things took a turn into
the less than optimum area. I have a pretty old version of Photoshop, number 4
I think and they are currently at number 11. Normally, for the things I do,
number four is plenty good enough. It’s actually good enough to make the globe
part of a snow globe.
The video kept referring to buttons and directions that my
program just didn’t have. I thought that they may have just renamed an older
button and if I just kept experimenting I would come up with the correct
sequence. That’s the same kind of optimism I have when my car breaks down and I
jiggle a couple of wires under the hood thinking that may just fix the problem.
It has never worked with the car, and not surprisingly (to everyone but me), it
didn’t work with Photoshop.
I gave up after an hour or so. Well, I haven’t given up;
just put things off for the foreseeable future. It is the Christmas season
after all and miracles do happen all the time. There was that burning bush, the
Red Sea thing, healing the sick, raising the dead,
walking on water and Santa. I might be able to figure out the correct sequence
of buttons and commands or failing that, I may just get a Photoshop Elements
for Christmas. I might visit Pirates Bay
The more likely scenario is that due to my advancing age,
something else will catch my attention and I will forget the whole painful
incident.
We can only hope.
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