One ’shop stop

Just a quick note to point out a new page I’ve added to the site. Over there, on the right (and up a bit, if you come to this late) you’ll see a link called Photoshopping. It’s a collection of the various digital images I’ve mashed together for cheap laughs on previous blog posts. The thumbnail images are linked to the larger image, and the “post” text link will take you to the story that spawned the image.

(I’m aware that Abode doesn’t like photoshop used as a verb, and those who care what they think sometimes call it photochopping. I couldn’t care less, though being something of a nitpicker, I’m generally no fan of turning nouns into verbs, particularly proper nouns. And “photoshopping” does sound like I’m out at Ikea looking for a cheap Ansel Adams print for my kitchen. But chopping is no better, though it does imply more of the coarse butchery evident in my sorry work.)

I really wish I had the skills to do better than this, or the nerve to enter something in Worth1000.com (combining two of my favourite pastimes, check out their Urban Legend contest) or even the Rick Mercer Photo Challenge (I’ve actually mocked something up for them thrice, but shown nobody. I’ll post them if anyone cares.)

Finally, you may have notice that I’ve been burning a little [g] logo into my most recent photoshopped images. This isn’t any sort of copyright protection nonsense - who the heck would want to reuse this crap? I’d be flattered - but merely a way of alerting the incredibly stupid to the fact that this is not a real photo.

But nobody’s that stupid, right?

Posted by: Paul Gorbould | 03-03-2007 | 12:03 AM
Posted in: Blogging