Painting Status - "Wahikuli Sunrise"

Hopefully, I'll get this next one done in the coming week or so. Of course, I've been saying that for the last...week or so. I did make quite a bit of progress this past weekend - I think all I have left is to finish up the palm trees & kiawe at the extreme right, the surf around the rocks, and the sand at the very bottom right (which I'll do last - since I have an unfortunate habit of dragging my hand through stuff I've just painted!) The photo of the painting so far...ok, not the best photo, but it's just a quick shot with my iPhone of my work-in-progress.

Anyway, the view is from Wahikuli Beach Park on Maui, from a photo I took at sunrise the morning I left the island this past August. I already think I know what I want to do for my next painting, but it's a little more extensive than this one - so this painting now is one that I figured I could knock out fairly quickly. Enjoy! :-)

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Adobe Lightroom - what a great tool for photography!

I recently got a copy of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom - have to say that this program ROCKS! I've just finished up optimizing a group of photos I shot this past August while on Maui. In the past, I'd have to spend quite a bit of time in Photoshop to clean things up (things like cropping crap out that is distracting, or straighting the image against the horizon). Then, I'd upload the images into something like Flickr or Picasa - then, go through each of them to add descriptions and search keywords. One by one. For each photo site. Which sucked.

With Lightroom, not only is cleaning things up quite easy (kind of like using iPhoto, but more powerful), but I could add descriptions & keywords within the program - that allows uploads to things like Facebook, Picasa, Flickr, or Photobucket - without having to retype manually all the descriptions & photo info.

So - the most recent batch of Maui photos are up - and they'd be up sooner if I'd not had a hard drive die on my two weeks ago. Enjoy!

The Design Foundry - Maui 2007 Photos

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