Getting more views on youTube than Andy Roberts own songs at present is a cover of Bob Dylan's song from the Desire album - One More cup of Coffee for the road.
How to Photograph a Ghost using free image editing software
As it’s halloween night tonight, and I have been requested to publish more image editing video tutorials using the Seashore free image editor for Mac, here’s the latest lesson in the series, which should be a lot of fun. It’s called “How to Photograph a Ghost” and will enable you to produce a well executed picture of a ghostly transparent human body against a real background without any noticable edges and even with the perfect shadow effects. As this is tutorial number 4 in a series, following on from :-
… we do use some slightly more advanced techniques then in the first three image editing with Seashore for Mac videos, but nothing that the beginner cannot master with just a short amount of practice. You can’t use an existing photograph, you’ll either have to go out and take a picture specially in one place, twice, or else you can download and use the two creative commons licensed photographs used as an example in the video.
Image Editing Video Tutorial – Seashore for Mac 4
So first watch the video all the way through, then decide on your subject matter:
After watching the video once, you can wind back to the beginning and try copying the same technique yourself using the seashore software. The best thing would be to go out and shoot a similar pair of your own photographs, being careful to hold the same camera position for both.
If you do decide to use the example pictures to practice on, you can download them by cmd+clicking the following two thumbnail pictures then selecting “save target as” or else clicking through to the larger pictures then dragging them off to your desktop.
Background Picture
Man against Background
Image editing Photo Credits
You are welcome to these or any of my photographs for online publication provided you abide by the create commons license which require you to attribute the photographer as “Andy Roberts” and link back to this blog.
If you found this free video tutorial useful, it would be nice if you would please rate and favourite the image editing tutorial 4 on youtube and blog, retweet stumble etc this post,
My contribution to Blog Action Day, this year on the topic of climate change, is a song called “When The Waters Rise” here recorded from one of my live Webcasts ( Tuesdays 7.00pm )
When the Waters Rise Lyrics
When the waters rise, when the waters rise,
It’s started to rain, could go on forever The puddles grow then join together As the waters rise
With energy a change of current The trickle soon becomes a torrent And the waters rise
We’ll have to move abandon camp, where once was desert now is damp And the waters rise
The balance kept by plants and sea has pushed beyond the boundary The gas surrounds us like a cloak a million years gone up in smoke
With climate change, a world in motion, Then the ice caps melt and join the ocean And the waters rise
In the short term we can head for the hills, In the longer run we’ll all grow gills and the waters rise
The weather warnings made no mark, Now there’s no time left to build the Ark As the waters rise..
When The Waters Rise Blog Action Day #BAD09
Blog Action Day
The aim of Blog Action Day is to raise awareness through concerted blogging about a single issue coordinated on one day.
When The Waters Rise – Live at Havering Folk Club
I mentioned Blog Action Day at the end of performing a version of my song “When The Waters Rise” on the eve of #BAD09 last night at Havering Folk Club
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