Re: PAW PESO - Air Mail
A technique I never thought of Shel [Original Message] From: Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wednesday, November 17, 2004, 1:20:28 AM, Shel wrote: ... I wondered how the postman would deliver the mail to it, and, in my mind, I worked out an elaborate system whereby the box could be raised and lowered. LOL No need - those airmail envelopes are very easy to fold into paper airplanes. -- Cheers, Bob
Re: PAW PESO - Air Mail
Why would you want to even out tonality in sky? Surely that would increase blandness or introduce artificiality? mike From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/11/15 Mon PM 05:52:14 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PAW PESO - Air Mail Just a silly snap, referencing something Frank mentioned a while back. Maybe someone has a suggestion for evening out the tonality in the sky, which is really why I posted this image instead of one of some similar pics. http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/mailboxes/airmail.html Shel - Email provided by http://www.ntlhome.com/
Re: PAW PESO - Air Mail
On 16/11/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED], discombobulated, unleashed: Why would you want to even out tonality in sky? Surely that would increase blandness or introduce artificiality? Aha, to increase blandness suggests that there is some blandness there to begin with :-)) Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _
Re: PAW PESO - Air Mail
I just want to learn more techniques for doing something like that, not that I'd always want to do it. This pic seemed like it would lend itself to learning and practicing some new techniques. Shel [Original Message] From: Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why would you want to even out tonality in sky? Surely that would increase blandness or introduce artificiality? Aha, to increase blandness suggests that there is some blandness there to begin with :-))
Re: PAW PESO - Air Mail
On 16 Nov 2004 at 3:49, Shel Belinkoff wrote: I just want to learn more techniques for doing something like that, not that I'd always want to do it. This pic seemed like it would lend itself to learning and practicing some new techniques. That's how I learned PS, I set myself little projects. Just about every time I use PS I learn something new, today I learned that CTRL H (or Command H for Mac heads) hides the marching selection ants. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
Re: PAW PESO - Air Mail
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 09:52:14 -0800, Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a silly snap, referencing something Frank mentioned a while back. Maybe someone has a suggestion for evening out the tonality in the sky, which is really why I posted this image instead of one of some similar pics. http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/mailboxes/airmail.html I can't help with your tonality question. But, I think it's a funny pic, and I'm glad you posted it. And I thought that the farmer near Petersburg, Ontario, Canada was being original... OTOH, maybe ~your~ guy copied it from my guy. vbg cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
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It's an old joke in New England, I seem to remember seeing a similar photo in Yankee magazine periodically. frank theriault wrote: On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 09:52:14 -0800, Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a silly snap, referencing something Frank mentioned a while back. Maybe someone has a suggestion for evening out the tonality in the sky, which is really why I posted this image instead of one of some similar pics. http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/mailboxes/airmail.html I can't help with your tonality question. But, I think it's a funny pic, and I'm glad you posted it. And I thought that the farmer near Petersburg, Ontario, Canada was being original... OTOH, maybe ~your~ guy copied it from my guy. vbg cheers, frank -- I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime. --P.J. O'Rourke
Re: PAW PESO - Air Mail
If I wanted to even out the tonality of the sky, I'd burn in one side with a very large, very soft brush and dodge the other side with a very large, very soft brush. Paul On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 09:52:14 -0800, Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a silly snap, referencing something Frank mentioned a while back. Maybe someone has a suggestion for evening out the tonality in the sky, which is really why I posted this image instead of one of some similar pics. http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/mailboxes/airmail.html I can't help with your tonality question. But, I think it's a funny pic, and I'm glad you posted it. And I thought that the farmer near Petersburg, Ontario, Canada was being original... OTOH, maybe ~your~ guy copied it from my guy. vbg cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Oh, Bugger Cotty wrote: On 16/11/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED], discombobulated, unleashed: Why would you want to even out tonality in sky? Surely that would increase blandness or introduce artificiality? Aha, to increase blandness suggests that there is some blandness there to begin with :-)) Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _
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I've seen quite a few of these over the years throughout the US and Canada. This was just one I was able to easily photograph. Thing is, when I saw my first one, I wondered how the postman would deliver the mail to it, and, in my mind, I worked out an elaborate system whereby the box could be raised and lowered. LOL Shel [Original Message] From: frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/mailboxes/airmail.html But, I think it's a funny pic, and I'm glad you posted it. And I thought that the farmer near Petersburg, Ontario, Canada was being original... OTOH, maybe ~your~ guy copied it from my guy.
Re: PAW PESO - Air Mail
Hi, Wednesday, November 17, 2004, 1:20:28 AM, Shel wrote: I've seen quite a few of these over the years throughout the US and Canada. This was just one I was able to easily photograph. Thing is, when I saw my first one, I wondered how the postman would deliver the mail to it, and, in my mind, I worked out an elaborate system whereby the box could be raised and lowered. LOL No need - those airmail envelopes are very easy to fold into paper airplanes. -- Cheers, Bob
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Hey! Good for my first chuckle of the day, and it's only Monday! Like the old joke, it's a good start! g Thanks, keith Shel Belinkoff wrote: Just a silly snap, referencing something Frank mentioned a while back. Maybe someone has a suggestion for evening out the tonality in the sky, which is really why I posted this image instead of one of some similar pics. http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/mailboxes/airmail.html Shel
Re: PAW PESO - Air Mail
Missed the original here (again), but here's a suggestion for evening out the sky gradient. In Photoshop, use the Eyedropper to select the darkest hue you want the gradient to be based on. Then swap background and foreground colour, and use the Eyedropper to select the lightest hue. Use the Magic Wand to select the sky area (had some trouble with the antenna on the web version, but I gueess it'll be OK on a full version of the pic), and apply a small dash of feathering. Then use the Gradient tool to apply a linear gradient from the lower right to the upper left corners and see what happens. To have a bit more control, one can copy the selected sky into a new layer and apply the gradient there. Jostein - Original Message - From: Keith Whaley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 7:01 PM Subject: Re: PAW PESO - Air Mail Hey! Good for my first chuckle of the day, and it's only Monday! Like the old joke, it's a good start! g Thanks, keith Shel Belinkoff wrote: Just a silly snap, referencing something Frank mentioned a while back. Maybe someone has a suggestion for evening out the tonality in the sky, which is really why I posted this image instead of one of some similar pics. http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/mailboxes/airmail.html Shel
