Sometimes I wonder about some of the retouching I see in magazines. There is some really awesome stuff out there. Images that have really had some great thought put into them right from the start. And I mean from the start with the creative director and not the retouching.

Every image has its genesis to go through, and it all has to start with the imagination. People DO get ideas and inspiration from others, but that original thought had to come from some where right? It has to go...

I don't proclaim to know everything about Photoshop. A lot, sometimes a very lot. Katrin Eismann describes me as someone who breaks Photoshop to make it work better. Which is really not far from the truth. It is how I taught myself Photoshop.
But I don't think that using something built to do one thing is meant to ONLY do that one thing. For instance, how many of you use H/L to create masks? Or even a black and white image?

What I am getting at and have strayed from is that...

Even though I have written some books and would love to write some more, I am not in love with typing At all. Which is why I have never had a web page up over the many years. Certainly not through lack of thinking about it. Kind of the way I write my books.
I do have a program that would let me dictate to the computer as I talked. Which in theory is ultra cool until corrections need to be made, which always seem to take longer than it would have to just type the thing in the first place....