As you may already know, I’ve really enjoyed experimenting with cross-processing film in the past – I love how the colours shift in such surprising ways and that the slightest difference in film can give you completely different results –…
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The good thing about this time of year (that would be Spring! Yay, get in!) is that if you’re stuck for words there are plenty of colourful and/or blossomy photos to fill in any gaps. It’s not so much that…
Some news on my ‘big plan‘ – I now have an official notebook which I carry everywhere with me! I know, I know I have lots of notebooks already (you sound just like my husband) but a girl needs a new…
In my day job I am lucky enough to work with people from all over the world. The ones that are new to these shores all seem to want to visit the same particular place – the white cliffs…
Vintage photo effects using ‘Selective Color’ adjustments in Photoshop
If you look at old family snapshots from the 60s/70s/80s you’ll notice how colours have shifted and faded. Blacks are rarely jet-black and whites are almost yellow – some have a colour-cast across the whole image, others have one…
OK, so let me try and describe Dungeness to you. Lovely, weird Dungeness – Britain’s only official desert. It lies, forsaken, on the Kent coast and you have to drive through miles of marshland to get to it. There’s…
Look at this… …it’s the most perfect fairytale castle ever, don’t you think? This is Bodiam Castle in East Sussex – it’s one of the places we visited earlier in the week during a (much needed) mini-break. Do I…
Well, here we are then – the one-hundredth day of winter (actually, today is day 101 – I’m running late with EVERYTHING at the moment – yikes)! I’ll admit it was sometimes an effort to stay positive and inspired when…
I’ve had some very positive feedback about the Instagram-style Photoshop actions I created a few days ago – I’m glad you liked them! As requested, for those with older versions of Photoshop or who use non-Adobe software, here are…
If there’s one thing that’s nicer than a hydrangea then it is a dead hydrangea! There aren’t many (any?) things that look better in their afterlife… I don’t think.…