Our Recent Trip to D.C.: Messin' with Photoshop

on Wednesday, 02 April 2008. Posted in Tech Tips Hits 2956

So, our family, decided to take a trip to Washington D.C. to check out the natural history museum and the national art gallery.  How did we decide those two?  We did what any self respecting family that loves the democratic system does--we voted.  Our littlest one wanted to see rocket ships (space museum) and the oldest two wanted to see art, and they all wanted to see dinosaurs.  What were the highlights? Our daughters all agreed that riding the metro (D.C.'s subway system) was by far the highlight (you know, like when you get your kids a really special gift and they play with box all day), after that the iMax on dinosaurs ranked second and finally the actual dinosaurs came in third.

We recorded the trip on both our digital camera and digital camcorder. The below pictures are clickable (remember that bosssanders ) and I would like to get everyones take on them.  I used three separate adjustment layers to create the effect that you see.  I am sure there are easier ways, but I basically "colorized" each photo then, using another hue saturation layer, I got all jiggy wit the color and finally I added a last layer that was close to the original and saturated and desaturated parts of the photos to make my beautiful daughters stand out in a crowd.  

 

#3 in DC
 
#4 in DC
 
#3 in DC
 
 
So, my first attempt at really trying to implement something fancy using photoshop, personally I think it looks P-H-A-T, but that's just because my girls are so dang cute.  Anyways, I managed to take some other photos that were just more fun:
 
Happy Dinosaur
Triceratops and my Wife
 
Just some good clean fun with team Joeprah in Washington DC. It was a ton of walking and by the time we got home we all needed to turn in early but it was totally worth it.  

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