Life Is Interesting!

The last few days have been interesting. Not particularly nasty, but enough weirdness to keep the edge on, I guess.

And then I was gassing my car, looked across the street and saw this sign.


I spoke briefly with the owner and told him how wonderful and courageous I thought his sign was. He reply, "Great, come buy a set of tires from me!"

And here is the deal. The next time I need tires I will! The store is at the corner of 39th St. and Main in Vancouver, just off the I-5 freeway. If you need tires, let's support this guy.

I've spent the last six or eight months scanning family slides and now have hundreds scanned and I'm only really getting started. But here is the fun part. As a result of getting the Mac for the office, I now have access to Photoshop. And, I've been playing with the photo restoration and retouching tools in Photoshop and what a kick!

My video training with RGB color control is finally paying off! Below is my second effort at color correction.

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AFTER












So, it's a start. I found a great book called Photoshop: Restoration and Retouching by Katrin Eisman. It is hugely helpful and I can't wait to dig into it and start turning out some fun pix of the family.