Is that what that tool….
Actually does? Go figure, guess you can always be learning something new! Case in point, I’ve been taking pictures for years with my phone and for the most part, smartphones these days take extremely nice photo’s. The quality and clarity of the later series of phones that have come out are nothing less than stunning. And the editing functions within the phone have followed suit making it fairly easy to turn pretty much anyone into a somewhat “capable” photographer. My one disappointment, however, has often been night moon shots and/or pics involving the sun. There almost always seems to be at least one (sometimes more) blue dot(s) that show up not far from said moon or sun. At first, and now I am talking a few years ago, I really thought I had gotten lucky and caught some kind of UFO in the background, as I had taken a series of shots of a full moon and the little blue dot was in all of them, it just moved around (thus UFO, right)? It wouldn’t have even had to be an alien ship or anything like that to make me happy, nope, just a good old UFO and I’d have been satisfied. Alas, the next time I had another good moon picture opportunity, well of course, same blue dot. No one is that lucky. So I started learning to take shots (and at this point I had started to pick up the blue dot in the lens while I was getting ready to take the pic) with the blue dot as far away as possible from my featured object and then I would just blow it up large enough to where I could easily edit it out of the picture.
So be it. Now, mind you, lately Google has been running a lot of ads about it’s new phone which has a “magic eraser” function that allow you to pretty much remove anything you do not want in a picture from that picture. This, my friends, sounds very cool and I just hope that the technology expands to other phone manufacturers (I am just not a Google phone kind of guy). And I am sure it will, but I digress as the whole point of my story today is the editing functions on my actual Apple desktop computer. As you all know, I do offer up pictures for sale on this website (and if you haven’t bought one just yet, best to get them now as you know I’ll be raising the prices once I get famous!) and sometimes I like to do a last second touch up on a picture via the computer just before I load it to the website and it just so happens that today I had a very nice shot of sunset over a recently harvested farm….and there it was, the dang blue dot again. What to do? Best to see if maybe I could re-color it a bit to make it go away and then I noticed a “retouch” function, which I had never actually used (I know, duh). Why not, right? So I hit it and a note comes up at base of screen to place the little circle that had appeared over the spot you want to retouch and so I did…nothing for a second and then, just like that, blue dot gone! Like magic. Nice! Turns out “retouch” makes things disappear.
So here I come sun and moon, I have no fears of taking your picture anymore as the UFO blue dot can easily be wiped from any picture of you. Just wait till my phone can do it as well!
All for now, have a good week and we’ll have a lot more going on with the Pulp Porch exterior this coming week so don’t forget to check out the progress pics when we post them (Don’t forget, we have our Pulpland Facebook page as well which we tend to post pictures to on a daily basis). Peace!
