Saturday, January 03, 2009

Jake-in-the-box

Sometimes, I like to do some photoshopping on my photos. And then I realize that I like the original version just fine.

Original Jake-in-the-box:















No-red-eye Jake:



Jake has stunning blue eyes, sort of odd for a grown cat who isn't Siamese or Himalayan. Instead of the green glinting off his eyes in the dark, you catch this eerie red glow. I did a literal pixal-by-pixel retouch to keep the highlights.

4 comments:

Chreamps said...

He's a beautiful cat - love the tips of his ears! You have patience to go pixel by pixel!

Anonymous said...

He's gorgeous! Good job on the retouch, but I do like the glow. :)

Erin-Joi said...

Taking pictures of cats can be so challenging. I tried to get decent phots of ours for both last year's and this year's holiday card. I haven't posted any as part of project 365 yet. I expect they will make many appearances over the year.

Erika said...

He is beautiful! What a gorgeous cat. I find it very hard to take the red eyes (or yellow, as I often get) out of the pictures. You sure did a great job on this one.