Mike Huber

The Grand Canyon Home Page

As I mentioned in previous posts, I have a number of sites that use content management systems.  This site uses Wordpress.  Another site I’ve been working on also uses Wordpress.  I recently found a number of really good themes for Wordpress.  Check out The Grand Canyon. This site uses a theme by Solostream.  The actual theme name is: WP Magazine Theme 1.0.  It’s a bit involved as you set it up because you’ve got to add thumbnail images and size images for the featured articles.  It’s more like a ‘magazine’ look and feel.  Tell me what you think.

One of the things you can do in Photoshop is to take a photo and add a filter to the final image. One of the more popular filters is blurring. Use the blurring tool to give your image a soft focus look.

Here are some of my favorite filters in use.  The first two photos are of the Yellowstone River in Montana.  The color image is the original cropped image and the second is a black and white using the ‘graphic pen’ filter.  This gives the image a ’sketched’ look.

The second set is also of the Yellowstone and uses the Artistic cutout filter.  This gives the image almost a comic book look.

The third set uses the diffuse glow tool.

The last photo uses the neon glow filter.

All of these filters can be adjusted in various ways to achieve the desired effect.