Photoshop

  • Adventure,  Art,  Black and White,  Photoshop,  Portrait,  Travel

    Portrait From Kashmir | The Mountain Man

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | The Mountain Man of Sonamarg | Kashmir | February 2012 When Jack London had his portrait made by the noted San Francisco photographer Arnold Genthe, London began the encounter with effusive praise for the photographic art of his friend and fellow bohemian, Genthe. “You must have a wonderful camera…It must be the best camera in the world…You must show me your camera.” Genthe then used his standard studio camera to make what has since become a classic picture of Jack London. When the sitting was finished, Genthe could not contain himself: “I have read your books, Jack, and I think they are important works of…

  • Art,  Editing,  Photoshop

    Photoshop Tips | How To Create Custom Borders and Frames in Photoshop

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Raphael at Kinokuniya Bookstore There are many ways to create a custom borders or frames in Photoshop and what I’m trying to share it here is among the few ways that you can do it in Photoshop. Here I will show you how to get just the same border like the picture above. © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Change Your Background and Foreground Color STEP 1 : Before we get start, please make sure that you change the background color into white because we wanted a white border to frame our picture, yes you can have any color you like but for this tutorial and…

  • Art,  Black and White,  Life,  Moment,  Photoshop,  Travel

    Travel Photography | Children of Sonamarg, Kashmir | Curiosity of a Stranger

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Children of Sonamarg Kashmir “I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.” – Eleanor Roosevelt – “We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”   – Walt Disney – “Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.” – John Locke – Tweet news…

  • Art,  Photoshop,  Travel

    Travel The World | Live a Life Without Regrets

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | Taj Mahal | Agra | India “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain – “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, “Wow! What a Ride!” – Hunter S. Thompson – “Travel changes you. As you…

  • Family,  Photoshop,  Travel

    Photoshop Editing | Playing With Color Tones

    © 2012 Wazari Wazir | (Left) Original | (Right) After Editing With Photoshop I’ve wrote once that if we wanted to sell our pictures to the magazines or any publication, whether it is online or printed version, try to keep the color as natural as possible, it was very simple, the magazines, especially the travel magazine wanted to tell the truth, they don’t want to present false information. If the sky is blue, let it blue and if the grass is green, keep it green. On the other hand if you wanted to experiment with colors, play with portraiture or lifestyle photography, or simply for your very own personal blog…