Apologies..

..for lack of blog action recently, partly due to other things going on in my life taking priority, and partly due to needing to get my finger out. To make it up, heres a more minimal piece i did of the wonderful granite city skyline. I originally did it with intention of doing a website based on Aberdeen, but quickly changed my mind to basing my site on Barcelona, as its a wee bit nicer on the eye than the 'deen.

New for Old part 2

Took a new photo and then attempted to make it look like some ancient artifact found in a dusty old box in someones attic, again with varying results. I've added some damage of my own to it, used cloning to smudge some bits of it, you can judge for yourself here.

New for Old

Heres what happens when i mess around with Photoshop, i was given an old picture to 'touch up'. There were obvious signs of deteriation and wear and tear which i've tried to tidy up and disguise.
I started with this:











and then with a bit of tweaking came up with this: