September 29

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Ginkgo leaf on my office window sill. With a dash of poster edges.

[Digression -- If you try filters/artistic/poster edges, and think there is too much poster edging, you can duplicate the layer (layer management on right; drag layer over the copy icon in the layer menu, or, right-clicking on the layer will get you the option to duplicate it). Once you've got two of them there, poster edge the new one (which will be on top of the original one), and then change the opacity. See the word "layers" on the right? Right near there is the word "opacity", with a percentage. If you click on the word "opacity" and hold the mouse button down, you can slide the opacity down and up, and see where you like it...... Reducing the opacity on the poster-edged layer will let the un-poster-edged layer beneath it show through. You can have *some* poster edging without having allllll the poster edging.

You can save your creation with layers, if you like (it saves in .psd format, which is Photoshop's proprietary format), or you can go in the layers menu, where the bottom item is "flatten image." If you flatten the layers, you are back to one layer, it it will happily save it as a jpg, or whatever format your pics are in. Or you can save it both ways. In a case like this, where it took me one minute to make the changes I usually just flatten and save the jpg, nevermind saving the version with layers intact. -- End of Digression.]





Looking out the window, we note the dramatic sky.





Black walnut, after demolition by squirrel.





This two-persimmon twig was on the ground under the persimmon tree.









With poster edges.





'Twas the pumpkin with the white that caught my eye, but see who is on the porch behind the fence?

He (or she) did not think it was necessarily ok that I was paying so much attention to her (or his) house, and gave tongue to let me and anyone else in earshot know that s/he was keeping watch!



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