Happy Birthday Achi!

Today is my sister's birhtday. She loves pooh so much. I decided to make a simple birthday card for her.

Sharpening Photos

I been palying around with photoshop on how to sharpen image. I can't seem to figure out how to do it. Until I found this tutorial from Pipho which was shared by HartSord (thanks!).

Heres his steps in sharpening images.

1) Convert to Lab (Image>Mode>Lab)

2) Load lightness as a selection (Alt-Ctrl-1 on a PC)

3) Invert the selection (Shft-Ctrl-I)

4) Select the Luminance channel (click on the channel tab, click on the L channel)

5) Apply USM (Amount 300-400% for high-res images, radius 1px, threshold 2. For lower-res images, use a lower amount)

An additional step for more punch:

6) Still with selection active, apply USM again (Amount 50-60%, radius 20-30px, threshold 2. For lower-res images, try amount 20-30%, radius 5-10px, threshold 2)

Here is the result

Michelle's Birtday suprise

I surprised my wife on her birthday. Surprised her with an Ipod Video placed in our CR. When she woke up, she saw 2 small balloons in our room and a big Mickey Mouse happy birthday balloon in the CR with the Ipod video.

Tagaytay highlands trip

Im still learning how to use my new camera. We went to tagaytay last August 24-25, 2008. Here are some of the shots I took with my new Canon 450d.