oh the luxury to dive into photoshop and get drunk on the possibilities of colors and fonts and filters. sigh.
i got THIS new set of filters over at totally rad. one of them is called sugar rush.
they are great fun to use and you can layer as many filters on top of each other as you want. the font is from my fonts and it's called cheap pine. i like to support those brilliant typographic font creators from time to time. there are zillions of places to find free fonts. da font is one i go to a lot.
the photos are from a ramble through the hollywood hills last week. i'm a rambler and it's the perfect weather to do it. windows down, hand surfing, driving through the honeyed streets.
LA in winter is sublime. i think i'm gushing.
happy sweet saturday. hope you're having your own kind of sugar rush.
Today is one of those days here in TX and i am buried deep organizing. Added to that nothing looks any better. So your post is a delightful escape!
Posted by: Monica Smith | Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 01:39 PM
Are you using Rad Lab? If so, google Faded and Burned - they have a bunch of free recipe/stylets that are awesome sauce. Love the Sugar Rush!
Posted by: Wendy | Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 02:19 PM
Here's another great source of free fonts ~ http://www.searchfreefonts.com/
Posted by: Connie Rose | Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 02:30 PM
I gotta get with the program here! I have nightmares about being in the old folks home with no knowledge of photoshop and no filters! You are going it again ... having fun. xoDonna
Posted by: donna Parker | Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 02:39 PM
The photos are freakin' awesome all jazzed up... Sugar rush...ha...really, seriously???? So DD and I ran our sat. errands, she needed another tube of white gauche, so off to the art store we go and I come home with paper, and pens and other cool stuff, then we hit Target and came home with I don't know how many bags of jelly beans...mental post it note to self, don't go shopping when you are in the midst of a sugar rush attack...and then this evening we all headed off for pizza at a local joint and then hit our fave cheese and wine shop, where they make these amazing confections that are dangerous to one's health, came home with some coconut cake, and a few slices of coconut cream torte on a buttery graham cracker crust...so yummy, ahem, sugar rush....YES indeed.
Posted by: Susie LaFond | Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 07:12 PM
Amazing photos! I don't know how to use Photoshop. Need to learn. But I have been playing with photo editing on PicMonkey, and that's keeping me happy for now.
Posted by: laura b | Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 08:59 PM
I don't know if what I'm seeing is the result of the filters on the photos up top....are they supposed to look faded and old fashioned, like those hand tinted photos that were so popular back in the 30's & 40's? If so, they are great!
I don't know how to do Photoshop...even after taking a class from my friend who taught the class...it all seemed so complicated and had strange words like bizet (Biz-yay) and all kinds of layers that totally melted my brain. I think I'm too old to attempt that high tech stuff.
Sounds like you're having a muy bueno time during your long siesta from the escuela. Ignore my pidgin Spanish.
Posted by: Joan | Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 09:14 PM
I'd get a sugar rush if I heard that you, MAM, were teaching a course in digital collage (i.e., how to use Photoshop!)
Posted by: Jan | Sunday, February 17, 2013 at 06:50 AM