6 Responses to “ My family ”

1. # 1 bearswithfangs Says:
   April 23rd, 2009 at 10:00 am

   Beautiful photo Ken.

   And by photoshop, I’m sure you’re referring to the fact that you cut me out in the background. Something about a whole “Crawford family only” type of bit.

2. # 2 Ken Crawford Says:
   April 23rd, 2009 at 10:29 am

   I would have left you in, but the “bunny ears” pushed me over the edge.

   For those interested, here’s the list of photoshop (actually, I use GIMP, the Open Source equivalent of photoshop and highly recommend it) changes:

   1. I transfered my middle son’s face from a different picture. In this one his eyes were closed and he wasn’t smiling.
   2. Rotated 3 degrees
   3. Removed a guy in blue to the far left
   4. Removed a couple from close to the field who was just to left of my middle son’s head
   5. Removed 2 players and 2 bags from 50 yard line Cal logo
   6. Brightened all the shadows on our faces and bodies

   That last one was quite a challenge to do well. What I ended up doing was creating a copy of the image and importing as a new layer. I then brightened it so that the shadows were properly exposed. The trick is to then use a layer mask to make the rest of the layer transparent. I had to do a LOT of manipulation to the layer mask, including blacking out large portions of it by hand before using brightness curves to expose just the bodies.

   You can find the original picture here:
   
   http://thecrawfordfamily.net/pictures/IMGP2845.JPG

3. # 3 Ken's Brother Says:
   April 23rd, 2009 at 3:33 pm

   Ken,
   Nice reference to Houston Family Reunion photo-gate ’02. Dad still hasn’t forgiven me for that one…
   Aloha from Mass,
   Your Brother

4. # 4 Ken Crawford Says:
   April 23rd, 2009 at 3:56 pm

   LOL, I had totally forgotten about that. Maybe for Father’s day you can get the original from him and photoshop it out. 7 years is still within the statute of limitations for family reunion gaffs.

5. # 5 Angel the Duck Says:
   May 4th, 2009 at 11:15 pm

   Where do you get GIMP?….and don’t say on the Oregon sideline! ha!

6. # 6 Ken Crawford Says:
   May 5th, 2009 at 8:30 am

   Angel, you can get it here:

   http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

   Or look for a quarterback on the Oregon sidelines who’s run the read-option for a few games. 🙂