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this far apart.
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Thursday, September 23, 2010
1+: iphone photoshop 4:03:00 PM

since I'm sick and homebound, more precisely, bed-bound, I shall wrote a simple post about the wonders of iphone apps (yes I am indeed an iphone freak)


I'm not sure if iphone has the best camera/touch screen/texting/connection in the world, but it certainly comes with millions of apps in the store to choose and utilise.


start with "print screen" from fb app.
Normally, one can easily save any photo from any website opened from iphone safari by just clicking on the photo and hold, then the option "save photo" will pop out and you can save it.


but the only way you can save a photo from fb app is to print-screen it. (as far as I know, correct me if I'm wrong). To print screen a photo and save it, simply press and hold the on/off button, and press the home button at the same time, a camera "cha-ka" sound will be made and the photo is automatically saved into your photo album


like this.



then by using a FREE app "photochop", crop the image you want down and paste it to another background you choose.

I must say eventhough photochop is free, it is not very user friendly. The crop function is solely based on erasing the unwanted area, so as you can see the edge of the hair and clothes are poorly done. It took me quite some time to do the final touch up of cropping but it still came out like shit.

ps: sorry jac for erasing ur photo >.< href="http://picasaweb.google.com/y.jaye87/AuraOfIndulgence?authkey=Gv1sRgCNDejcmd1JvvgAE#5520016721851848354">
I pasted the cropped image on a hk city night view photo that I took when I went there last winter break. As you can see, the whole photo just appears to be very fake and awful. The colour and lighting between the background and the cropped image aren't uniform at all.


To fix this, I used another FREE photography app "Mill Colour"
Just simply open the app with the image and choose the "print" mode. This app is quite good as it can turn any photo into many awesome different modes, such as "chocolate" vintage, "instant" which looks like polaroid, "70's" vintage, "promo", "cross-processed" etc. Worth downloading =)





And suddenly, the colour, contrast of two different images are synchronised (dunno if I use the correct term but you know what I mean lah) already =)

There is still fine white lines at the edge of hair and clothes due to my poor cropping skill, that can't be helped but I'm sure if you guys have more patience than me, you won't even have those annoying lines after using "mill colour"



To make it to appear to be even more real, I used FREE "adobe photoshop express" app, to add the "soft edge"


and ta-da! my final product! =D

I showed it to V and he was like "eh did we take this in hk?", his response made me proud hehe.
some may say it still looks fake and unnatural, but that's the best I can do using my iphone T_T forgive me I'm not even a graphic design student or anything like that T__T

This is so pretty I set it as my lock screen wallpaper heh.

Since sarah just got her iphone 4, I'll just take this post as a small tutorial for her on iphone photoshop hehe.

I'm not sure if anyone still read this blog, but hope this helps any iphone user =p
and let me know if you discover other awesome apps =D

why oh why, why can't sickness go away.

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Sunday, September 19, 2010
The judgmental and assumption. 3:54:00 PM

Don't you realise, as you grow up and are exposed to many different kinds of environment, the more judgmental people you will meet?


It's such an irony growing old usually comes with growing up, but you will realise when people age, they tend to be more judgmental than ever.


It's human nature that they judge. And make assumption.


They see a person with horrible grades, they assume that that person isn't working hard enough or isn't serious about his own life.


They assume people who have different religion from them are going down the wrong path and go straight to hell.


They see ugly fat girl, they assume that she must be desperate in finding a boyfriend.


They see a hot chick dating a nerd, they assume that the chick is only with that guy for some other purposes.


They judge newly attached person will not value their friendship anymore.


They judge people who don't study overseas will not be more successful in life than them.


They assume ugly nerdy people will always be virgin.


They assume third party in a relationship is always the evil one.


They judge that people who start a new relationship soon after ending the old one isn't really serious for any of them at all.


Just last week, someone totally widened my horizon again about the extend of how judgmental a person can be. We were talking about random stuff and she suddenly said "I know I may sound evil to say this, but I'm lucky that I'm a bio (she didn't really say bio but I don't wanna be too specific =p) student"


then all of us asked why?


She said she is surprised how some people will think panadol can cure everything. Luckily she isn't one of them.


I said "so... are you saying, you feel lucky that you study bio so you are as stupid as them?"


"... yea sort of"


then it just occurred to me that this is a whole new level of being judgmental. Just because some people don't know which drug to buy for which condition, it doesn't mean that they are stupid or ignorant or "unlucky". How can one despise another person just because he has a more superior knowledge in that area? Aren't we supposed to be happy that we can be part of the public education to help them, not secretly think they are dumb and feel grateful we aren't one of them?


I replied, "if you are thinking like this, I'm sure other professions will see you the same way too. Engineers might think how stupid you are because you don't understand basic physics, accountants and business students might don't understand why you can't manage your own finance and do your own account"


even prettier hotter chick might just don't understand how plain jane can survive without much admiration and fashion sense.


I admit that I do judge as well, especially for relationship issue. I despise people who cheat, no matter what happened, one can never cheat. I heard of a true story where a guy goes sleeping around in perth where his gf is waiting for him (I'm not sure how loyal she is though) in Malaysia. The girlfriend will never know what he is doing here but I do really feel sorry for her. The guy still proudly goes around telling others how sexually active and successful he is here. Sigh. This kind of guy, I despise him. I judge him for not having moral values in a relationship, for not having dignity, for being selfish. I don't know the inside story of their relationship but it still disgust me the fact that the guy is very proud to tell everyone he cheats on the gf.


I hope that the girlfriend knows it one day. Or maybe is doing the same to him. haha evil me.


But yea this world is getting messed up that loyalty isn't a basic rule to maintain a relationship anymore. I refuse to be one of them.

I don't know what's the point of writing this, maybe just to remind myself and whoever reading this. Judge less.


You will never know how many precious friendships you can save by judging less. We all make mistakes, best friend will always be by your side no matter how many mistakes you have made in your life.

And I'm happy to have us, Sarah and I, no matter how far we are apart, how many terrible things we did and we confessed to each other about it, the other party will just listen patiently, give constructive advice and honest opinion but never judge (ok maybe we did lah, but once in a million times). This friendship assures me that when the whole world is turning me down, there will be one person who will guide me to do the right thing and support me.

i love you sarah. haha so random.

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