Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Photoshoppaholic
My name is Naomi and I am a Photoshoppaholic.
Aly mx and I went to Zouk for Mambo night last Wednesday. It was super dooper fun in a stay-out-late-till-wee-hours-of-the-morning-exciting kind of way, but also not really what I'm into. I think I'm more a drinking game/pub crawling kinda person.
Anyway, this post isn't about that. It's about my latest obsession (besides makeup, lack of funds is curbing that). I wanted to update the photograph on my youtube page so I took this as an opportunity to embellish the picture as much as possible (No one I know will see it).
Xiaxue mentioned that she used photoshop brushes to add eyelashes to her pictures. If brushes sound familiar to you, it's also what people use to design blog skins so it's often under the credits.
It's an amazing site. It has so many brush sets and really easy instructions on how to install them into your photoshop program (yeah you need to have photoshop :\)
Up till this point, photoshopping pictures meant removing a few blemishes (resulting in weird light spots everywhere) and giving myself liposuction and boob jobs (resulting in disproportionate body parts).
After playing around with the brushes a little, here's what I got:
O.O
See this is why people should never photoshop pictures of themselves. (Or maybe it's just me)
I never know when to stop and I think I shrank my nose too much.
When Hannah saw the picture she thought my mouth looked weird. THAT is not a result of excessive photoshopping. It's just my weird too tight smile. I guess maybe it's a combination of factors that cause it to not resemble me.
(Click to enlarge)
These were pre-brushes. All taken using Aly's camera on Mambo night (hence the intro).
The excessively photoshopped picture of me right on top was from the one with me and mx. In the above 2 pictures I only trimmed some arm chub away and maybe a little of the jaw. But it still resembles me. Add the eyelashes and... KABOOM! plastic doll.
That was all done last night.
Tonight I decided to try someone else...
Nice right??
I think I did a pretty good job for an amateur, if I may say so myself.
That's also a bane of my life. I'm a jack of all trades. I like to pride myself in the fact that I can be an expert among beginners because I pick up things fast, however I never have the perseverance, vision, ambition to push further and mould it into a career. That's why throughout my entire life people have been telling me "I have potential". You'd think that's praise right?
Not for me it isn't. It's a constant reminder that I always fail to maximise my 'potential'. Then, there are also times I doubt whether there's really potential, or just seems so and is actually the best I can do. Those are my wrist-slashing days...
... JUST KIDDING! That was me meager attempt at injecting some humour into this thing. Phooey, how did this get so heavy. Ah well. Must be the fact that I'm sleep and socially deprived. I really need to join a CCA next year. Or maybe join a class in a CC. Anything to expand my circle a little. Even my dad's voicing concerns about a lack of boyfriend activity (any takers? nah I'm kidding. REALLY).
Hooby dooby doo, right, I think I shall be off to bed now. If you've actually made it all the way here, let me extend a hearty congratulation.
Good Night folks.
and this is Naomi signing out.
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❤slipping on a banana peel at 3:25:00 am
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Check out my new desktop Wallpaper!
cute right ^^
Used to be this one:
then I had to reinstall windows cause my laptop got cranky
Before that it was this one:
Cute right! :D I LOVE skiing, my god. I was BORN to ski.
Too bad it's so freaking expensive and there's just one more thing... SINGAPORE HAS NO SNOW!
We totally should do some skiing thing. Like some rich dude should buy up that sad excuse of a snow city that we have and convert it into a mega ski slope like in Dubai!
I mean since we compete with Emirates and everything. Why not try to top them in this! It's really super cool cause it's built with the mall and it faces shop windows and everything.
I think it's the longest in the world? One of the largest indoor ski thingys anyways.
links:
Then they should employ the people who run the Harbin Ice Palace.
No smelly winter coats for those people.. No sirree. I've been to their ice palace thing in Singapore when they came here twice and the way they maintain those jackets!
Snow City(when I last went which was errrr eons ago):
Smelly jackets handed to you when you go in. Have to tahan mouldy sweat smell till your nose gets used to it.
Ignore mouldy sweat stains
Chuck smelly jackets (to which you've now added your own smelly sweat) into bin provided at the exit.
Harbin:
Approach counter where guy will pick jacket from those spinning racks they have in laundromats
and hand it to you fresh smelling.
Then you can buy those yarny gloves and socks if you need to.
Have fun slipping and sliding in the palace.
Return jackets at a counter at the exit and a guy hangs it back up and sprays something on it.
Enjoy popcorn and hotdogs with drinks.
See the difference?
Wow. If only that were to happen. I'd ski every week.
LOL, alright I was kidding when I said I was born to ski. But OMG it was super FUN. And my dad said the slopes were NOTHING compared to the japan ones. Cause the ones they brought us to in korea was packed to the brim, ill maintained and icy.
Like OMG-I'm-going-too-fast-and-have-to-choose-either-too-slam-my-head-on-an-ice-patch-or-careen-into-the-trees-icey.
So I chose to tumble to the side and slam my head on the ice patch. Thrilling huh. Better than careening into a ski lift!
❤slipping on a banana peel at 10:17:00 pm
I need to go jogging NOW. but the thing is, my body clock is totally off whack and I get the urge to jog at random times like 3 am in the morning, 1 am, and now going on 10pm.
I like to think that I'm hideous looking enough that no rapist or weirdo would have any urge to molest/rape/kill me if I go jogging now (I mean come on! Who gets turned on by a tub of lard bouncing by)
But, that's precisely the reason why I need to go jog cause I don't want to look like that.
Anyways, I seem to attract plenty or weirdos.. and the weird thing is it usually happens when I'm not feeling my best.
1) ERA guy in toa payoh library
It was smack during an exam period I think or at least going to be. Stress made me break out in pimples and rash and I couldn't find anything to wear so I was wearing some uber tight sweater with uber tight tube which showed off my paunch in all it's glory.
2) Scary negro dude outside cine
I was trying out a new look which wasn't too successful, had orange macaroni hair and wobbling on too tight heels. (Eeeyer, this description sound like prostitute liddat. maybe that's why)
3) Ah pek who reversed his van when he saw me roadside
Early in the morning at about 4 am, how glamorous can you look?! Maybe cause I had too much make-up on. I just started putting on make-up so I kinda layered on the eyeliner too much I think.
See what I mean?
So that's why I'm hearing valiantly trying to resuscitate my dying blog instead of venturing out.
Anyways, I think I'm gonna go try to sleep now and wake up early tomorrow to jog.
Last paper this thursday! WOOHOO.
Anyone wanna catch watchmen with me?
❤slipping on a banana peel at 9:54:00 pm
