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Read more!Earlier tonight I received an email from a fellow Flickr'er 'Elizabeth Lynch'. Elizabeth is a great photographer and a regular poster in the 'Food Photography Club'. She was curious as to how I produced diptychs with borders.
I was completely thrown! I'm no expert! To be honest, I'm posting this rather gingerly, hoping, HOPING there are no Photoshop Gurus reading.
I digress, this is a quick run through of how "I" do bordered dyptichs...
1. Open both images and place them side by side.
2. Resize each image to a reasonable, workable size. (Note the size of each one, you'll need to know for later.)
3. Make any adjustments to your images now. Curves, brightness etc. Then, with both images, go to: Layer>Flatten image
4. Create a new window. This is where noting how big each image is, becomes important; Because you need to fit 'em both on!
5. Copy and paste your now flattened images onto the background. Line them up side by side. If you're not pushing them together, but instead leaving a gap in between, then you need to either fill the background with the colour of you border, or just go with a white border. (My border is black because for the purpose of this guide, it needed to be seen.)
6. OK. So by this point, you've flattened your images and lined them up side by side on the background... > Or, do what I do. Use the crop tool to crop right up to the edge of both images. You'll end up with this...
7. So you've opted for the more civilised way of bordering, good for you. Create a new layer: Layer>New Next to last step. Go to: Select>Modify>Border and decide how big you want your border to be.
You should now see that your full selection, has turned into a border-esque-shaped selection! And so finally, with that new layer still highlighted, use the Fill tool, to fill the border selection with white, or whatever colour your border may be.
And there it is. Your finished, bordered Diptych! Enjoy!
Greetings all, and I hope you're in the mood for soup. Lol, Soup with Cheese - Of course you are.
I've had this bag of Lentils on the kitchen counter for a couple of weeks now, and fair play to me, I have used them a few times. However, seeing as how they came in a 500g bag, it seemed like a sensible idea to start using them, and Lentils in Soup is great.
It couldn't be easier if you want to have a go yourself.
Boil a couple handfuls of Lentils in Vegetable Stock and spices of your choosing, until cooked through. Throw in: Green beans and Rocket.
Slake 1 1/2 teaspoons of Cornflour in water, and stir into the soup. Finally, Add 25-30g of a Medium flavoured cheese; I used Alderwood, a smooth and supple Cheddar-like cheese that tastes a bit "Chocolatey". Season and serve.
Now, the bit you're probably really interesting in; How I managed to eat Doughnuts for Dinner. Well, no, not just Doughnuts (I'm not a complete loss). To compliment my Doughnut, I chose a Raspberry Muffin, a mini tub of Ben & Jerry's, and a large Coffee!
Where was I? That's right. A Motorway Service Station.
This is Salts Mill Gallery, which houses an incredible selection of Cookery books, and a Kitchenware shop with some eye-watering prices; £47.25 for a Milk pan!?
Along with the National Media Museum in Bradford, was where I actually went. This was a University organised trip, set up to compliment something we're doing on the course.
We began at the NMM with an exhibition by Sarah Jones. Unfortunately, the Museum does not allow photography inside the Gallery, but if you're interested in Jones' work, you can see some of what we saw here. You may remember my half-arsed rant about the often morbid nature of modern photography; Thankfully, although Jones' work is deeply rooted in complex psychology, it's also work that is massively pleasurable to look at. On a base level, the way she utilises light and colour is astonishing. Never before have I seen direct flash used to effectively.
Anyway! Disappointed by not being able to photograph inside the Gallery at the NMM, I made up for it by giving the camera a work out on some of Bradford's architecture.
Leeds/Bradford is one of the UK's most popular Airports, so there were Planes soaring over every couple of minutes. Click through and take a look at the larger versions of this image. Great sky that afternoon.
We had theories about this place. Multi-level Ice skating? Apartments with complimentary Ice skating? Or maybe it's just a really tall, hollow building, with some rather eccentric advertising.
I've not done a lot of architecture photography, but I do like the angular, blocky shapes that you get when photographing against a clear sky. I added a little fake "film grain" to try and get that gritty 1960'-70's feel.
So, the reason I managed to score Doughnuts, a Muffin, Coffee and Ice-cream for Dinner, is simply that we got stuck in traffic on the return journey and decided to stop at Services. We didn't detour to any Carnivals or Festivals, we just couldn't get it together quick enough to make it home in time.
Oh dear.
