Over the weekend

Dan made a tasty fish dinner on Sunday.
We had Mahi-Mahi cooked with mango rum.
We also had green tail onions and lettuce
fresh from the Monona farmers market,
which turned into to an easy tomato and
cucumber salad with olive oil.


After dinner, our cat Dock napped at
one of his favorite places, our porch.
You can see him in the image on the left
through the legs of the chair, and if you
click on the photo on the right you can see
one of his little teeth poking out!

Just thought I would mention it

Jeffrey Brown from PBS NewsHour always wears the most detailed and beautiful neck ties I have ever seen. HD television I love you!

Infinirock.com Update!

Yes, I've updated the website again and it has a whole new look! You'll notice an updated introduction on the home page, new mini-bios on the about page, and some new images on the design and photos page. I updated the site because I felt it needed to be cleaner and a little more professional looking. The new look will help me out during my job search too. Now I just need to add some pieces from my portfolio to the site!

Enjoy the new format of Infinirock Productions!

Rainy Day Wisconsin

Yesterday we had a great sunset along with a bit of pouring rain. In between showers we stepped out on our back porch to see a nice big rainbow. Enjoy!

Separating hair from a photo

Separating hair from a photo's background can be a tricky thing in Photoshop. I thought I could use practice with this for work and personal pieces, so I found a tutorial to help me out. The tutorial comes from: http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/tutorials/handy-techniques-for-cutting-out-hair-in-photoshop

I found a couple of images of people that had fine hairs poking out here and there, and then I tried the techniques suggested. The first tutorial helped me out with this image. You'll see the original photo, and then you'll see my version with the new sky background. My version could use more work since I lost some of the finer hairs, but it was worth a try.

 

 

The second tutorial was good, but I didn't follow it too closely for this image. Here's the original photo on the left, and then my version on the right with the gradient background.

Infinirock.com Update!

We have added some new items to our website, infinirock productions! Take a look at the background image used throughout the site - it's a nice sunset photo by Steve. On the Design page you'll see some captions for the images. You'll also see a new video of the band Jerry's Dawg and a Mr. Blotto video on the Video page. These couldn't make it to our YouTube page since they were longer than 10 minutes, but one of the advantages of having them on our website is that the videos are available for download.

Abstract

Another piece inspired by a Computer Arts tutorial. The Photoshop tutorial can be found here.