I Thought.....

I thought it was my lucky day...

When I found these lying on the walkway of a shopping complex


Not 1...but 3 Movie tickets!!!


NOT~!

Why wasn't it some English movie....

Damn.....

Temple of Supreme Bliss

aka Kek Lok Si.


Whatever this means.




And let there be light...











Enjoy =)

Little Old Penang Walk # 3

First and foremost. Happy Chinese New Year to all. May the year of the ox bring prosperity to you and your entire family (at least that is what they always wish you =P )

Here's another part of my 'Little old penang walk' series which i've covered here (#1) and here (#2)

I took a walk down Beach street on a fine Sunday morning. Penang didn't look this good to me before.








It has a resemblance of a shocked face












Business not as usual












Enjoy =)

Everything Blue

Welcome 2009. Here is the first set of pictures to start the year off.
It was a glorious day out. With glorious blue painted on the sky... I knew I had to do something about it.



That is when inspiration hit me. Everything blue.


















Enjoy =)

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

2008 is coming to an end and before you know it, its going to be 2009. Time sure moves fast.
Before you know it, its going to be 2010..But... before that happens.

To my dearest friends. Thanks for being such great pals.
Cheers to another year of great friendship and even greater pictures.
Look closely..your pictures IS up on the tree. lol.

Have a Blessed Christmas and a Happy New Year to all ya'll out there.


Enjoy =)

Colours in Motion

Not the greatest tho...

Enjoy =)

From The Digital Dark Room

Turn your shots around by using simple techniques in the digital darkroom (aka Photoshop)



This is the shot (that we are going to use in this post) before post processing. Boring, plain, vanilla, you name it.

In this example, I want to light up uncle Francis Light.
*For some stupid reason the images gotten blurry after saving it with MS Paint. Fantastic software. So I will try to explain as detail as I can without getting too technical, and also I'm too lazy to recapture every screen again*

Load up your picture (duh) that you want to edit using your preferred editing software (i will be using Adobe Photoshop)

Step 1:

- Duplicate the base layer you have so you have 2 layers.

Step 2:

- I want to bring details to uncle Francis. So,
- Select the Base Layer and adjust the Shadow/Highlight (Image -> Adjustment -> Shadow/Highlight


- Adjust till you feel its bright enough.

Step 3:

- I want to make the sky more dramatic.
- Select the 2nd Layer (which you have duplicated earlier), and adjust the curves (Image -> Adjustment -> Curves)


- Adjust till you feel its appealing to you.

Now that we have the base layer and the 2nd layer ready, I will want to have (the bright) uncle Francis stand in the nice-blue-sky as in layer 2.

Step 4:
- To begin, select layer 2 (the one that I have adjusted the sky). Work on layer 2, do NOT touch layer 1.


- Select the brush tool (on the left toolbar) and set the Mode (on the top toolbar) to 'Clear'

Step 5:

-Carefully trace the silhouette (or the object that you are having) of uncle Francis to expose the bottom layer

And you will end up with,


Taaaddaaaaaa

Done. in 5 simple steps, you have made uncle Francis Light stand in the light (so to speak)


Before and After

Enjoy =)