Here is a gallery of shots from watching last nights game at the campsite I’m staying at in the Loire Valley. It was great to be able to join in the fun with the ‘Pays Bas’ supporters, our new Dutch friends.

‘Tattoo Two’ is a shot I posted the other week on my Photoblog. It is a shot that I was pretty happy with, and is different from the types of shots that I normally get, although its the sort of thing I’d like to get more of. You see the processing style I have used on this, can only really be used with certain shots. It comes from liking the style of the film ‘300′. You see a while ago I downloaded a preset called Matts 300 Look from Lightroom Killer Tips, and have applied it to a number of [...] Continue Reading…

Having been a user of Facebook for sometime now, I’ve been fiddling with creating my own Rowles Media Page on there. Just because I can. Its been there for a while now, and I’m just wondering how I can best use it. I mean since facebook is so popular with something like 70 million users world wide, then it seems that not having a facebook page is a bad idea. Its getting it noticed that is the problem.

As you can see I have 8 fans at the moment, which means whenever there is activity on my Facebook Page, it [...] Continue Reading…

Well up until today I have been running three seperate websites. A Photoblog, a regular Blog and my main business website. I realised that things would be much easier to manage if I could at least merge two of them. So the business website has become part of the blog. Or vice versa, either way my main website is now powered by Wordpress. 

Galleries
In the change to this new site I have temporarily lost some of my galleries of photographic work. So I am currently looking into the best solution to that, because I seem to have that many of [...] Continue Reading…

Colour animation, Filtered animation, motion animation and re-sizing animation. To begin with we will create a re-sizing animation.

Create a new file, 150 X 150 pixels on a transparent background.

Select the Elliptical Marquee tool.

In the options bar, go to the Style pull down at the top and select Fixed size.

Again, in the options bar, enter 150 px for Width and Height.

Click on your canvas to execute Marquee and drag until centered. Fill now with your choice of colour, then click outside the circle with the marquee tool in normal mode to deselect it.

Go to Layer > Duplicate Layer. (Repeat process [...] Continue Reading…