So I was driving from Thousand Oaks down to Long Beach for the weekend and I decided to take the scenic route. It was such a beautiful drive that I actually had to stop twice and get out of the car to take pictures of what I was seeing.

At the first spot, I took the following photos:

And at the second spot, I took the following photos:

- Omar Z.

I can finally capture the sunsets out here. I took the following shots:

And voilà!

- Omar Z.

Check this out! You take the same picture at several different exposure levels:

And then run them through Photoshop together to get a composite image with all the different portions of the photo at a good exposure level :D

- Omar Z.

'I'm Zatman' - Bruce Zuberi

In brightest day, in blackest night,
no evil shall escape my sight!
Let those who worship evil's might,
beware my power.. Zreen Lantern's light!

So my friend Ravi is a fashion photographer and he told me about a neat trick he did with a photo of his. He took a color image and made almost everything black&white; except for what he wanted the eye drawn to.

Hehe, so now I decided to mess around with photoshop and see what I could come up with :D

So I took a picture of my niece Anum at (my sister Reema's friend) Shermeen's wedding and turned it into this.

Then, I took a picture of Shermeen at her own wedding and turned it into this.

And finally, I took a picture of my sister Saher (with Anum) at Shermeen's wedding and turned it into this.

Wicked, eh?

Here are the steps to what I did:
1 - Open image in photoshop (duh!).
2 - Create a new layer and copy the 'background' photo into the new layer
3 - Desaturate the top layer (make it B&W)
4 - Add a Layer Mask to the top layer
5 - 'Paint' on the layer mask wherever you want the colored image below the B&W layer to show through
6 - If you're reading this, you're an idiot for thinking there's a sixth step :P

- Zuberio

Hehe, I made the flaming football look even cooler :D

This time, I've added a motion blur to the football itself, I've switched the background to black, and I used edge detection on the red flames to make them more .. ummm ... flame-like.

Ok, I was messing around with photoshop today, and I decided to add some flames to this football

Basically, I just used the paintbrush to draw a rudimentary outline of the flame, and then I used the smudge tool to make it smooth and flame-like.

I made two different versions of my 'Flaming Football' :)

- Zuberio

Hehehe, I love playing with photoshop :D Especially when the results involve the letter Zed.