John&Jacq~s Garden

Posted by Jacqueline on October 3rd, 2007

Hehe…if you’d browse through this blog and my Flickr photostream, you’d come to know that I’m really a Photoshop maniac! :D Having learnt recently how to create an illusion of a picture within a picture and presented a Photoshop tutorial on it, I’ve found this craft handy when I needed to illustrate garden flower images [...]

Posted by Jacqueline on September 20th, 2007

Sometimes, I’d like to bring more focus to the main subject or object in my photo…don’t you? One of the ways to do this is to create an illusion, of course! Basically, it is creating the appearance of a smaller cropped version of the photo within its larger self, using the vector shape, creating a [...]

Posted by Jacqueline on September 3rd, 2007

There are so many ways to enhance our images. One of my favorite ways is to add a border or frame and it can be done in such creative ways. Absolutely exciting, challenging and rewarding as I experiment with the many ways available in Photoshop CS2. These last few days, while playing around with just [...]

Posted by Jacqueline on August 10th, 2007

Such fun creating collages! A simple art form in which multiple photos are combined into a piece of art. It is now my latest passion as I aspire to experiment and learn more tricks and techniques from Photoshop CS2 and the internet. Having recently experimented how to extract objects, resize, reposition and rotate images, I’d [...]

Posted by Jacqueline on July 31st, 2007

Here’s another interesting way to create a single picture collage using the same image as the background. I’ve seen lots of this kind of collage on Flickr photosharing and often wondered how it was done. As I pondered, it strucked me recently that basically it’s just a cropped image laid on its bigger image to [...]

Posted by Jacqueline on July 17th, 2007

I just love creating collages! It challenges me to be more creative and keeps me mentally alert which is good for my aging brain! :D Recently, I had wanted to show off the many bright cheery faces of this lovely flower, Torenia Fournieri that shines endlessly in our garden. What better way was there than [...]

Posted by Jacqueline on June 12th, 2007

Creating a collage of pictures is definitely an exciting and challenging task! At times mind boggling too, some mathematics needed. I simply love doing it. My first collage was created in October, 2006 and had been a steep learning curve through trial and error! Hmm…it does get easier and prettier with more practices indeed! :D [...]

Posted by Jacqueline on February 4th, 2007

Learning how to frame my digital pictures is my newest interest besides photography! It is simply great fun and keeps me truly excited and absorb in my attempt to be creative! By nature, I’m resourceful and love challenges!