self portrait & a confession
Monday, December 24, 2007 at 11:25PM 
Not quite sure what it means, that these last four images are all from the same day 14 months ago. Could it be as simple as:
- I like the shapes, textures, & colors
- they are flat, nearly 2 dimensional compositions that expose my predilection for simple, shallow visuals
As for the confession, here goes:
All the images included here on ManMadeWilderness and printed for the exhibit of same have been manipulated in an image editor. Yeah, yeah, what's the big deal? Okay, here goes... I don't use Photoshop. There, I finally said it out loud.
I'm prompted to make this outlandish confession because of the amount of time I spent working on today's photo... in my demo copy of PS CS3. It's slick. It has cool features. I don't really know how to make it work. But I got better results in only a couple of minutes by using my standard editor: Corel PhotoPaint. It does pretty much the same thing as Photoshop, costs a third as much for twice the functiionality, and I've been using it since version 8 so I know it fairly well by now. There you have it. The full truth. I've outed myself to the world.
I DON'T USE PHOTOSHOP!!! If people start looking at me funny from now on, I'll suspect it's a result of this late night admission.
Reader Comments (2)
Here here, KMW! Even as the Photoshop (dare I say Pro?) that I am, I am proud of your decision. Not that it is really a confession (more like "badge of honor," coming from another Wiley who generally likes to buck trends). I did however find a pretty cool feature on CS3 yesterday which turns color photos into b&w while allowing the adjustment of each "color" independently from white to black. It makes a number of effects such as psuedo-solarization, etc. possible. So I've been looking at Mr. Bill-365portraits.com-Wadman's other projects and it turns out he's quite the multi-talented sort. The photos are definitely his strong suit but he has some interesting writing and well, as he admits, cheesy musical composititions, etc. but he has remarkable discipline for creative endeavors. Puts some of us to shame... Thanks again for the holiday fam event. Hopper, et al have maybe even convinced me to paint again (at least I bought some oils yesterday). Now all I need is BW's stick-to-itive-ness and an idea.
-so is this your first comment???
You are No. 1 Jan! Sorry I didn't see you sooner.
Since you didn't provide the link to Bill Wadman, I'll put it here.
Great to hear that you're inspired to do some painting. An idea? How about something similar for you that would be one of your pencil portraits every month for a year?