ye olde curiosity photoshoppe

It's dull and freezing outside. And it's really disheartening. It's the kind of light that Bill Bryson accurately described as ''like living inside tupperware''; I'm not at all inspired to go wandering with ixus.

So I stay indoors and play around with photoshop.

I've not done much photoshop (in fact, I normally use paintshop pro - similar, I suppose, but I don't really know my way around either.) Mostly I use it to crop, cut and paste and shuffle around with layers to make new, but straightforward, images.

A very kind person has sent me a few special techniques to try and I thought I'd have a go on some photos I took a while ago and see if I can come up with something. I've used photoshop, not paintshop pro, because the terminology in the lesson is for photoshop - I may as well be hung for a sheep rather than a lamb...


aries: last winter, by the main road into town, there was a family group of an unusual breed of sheep, a ram, ewe and lamb. As I was taking photos, the big fella came across to see what my business was and obliged me with this profile. Handy really, cos the camera only has a little zoom...