I like to mess in Photoshop, but I’ve not been able to in awhile. We had Photoshop CS3 here at work, but because of a snafu in licensing issues, I had to go back to CS, which quite frankly, is probably more than I actually need. Want is a different matter all together.

While reading Valerie’s site, I found a picture of a trowel she’d taken*. I thought it was a not only an interesting picture, but one that I could mess with in Photoshop a bit, and see what I could come up with.

Trowel Before Trowel After

I decide to orientate it going from lower left to upper right, and then used Curves, Levels, Brightness & Contrast and the Burn tool to bring out some of the highlights, as well as color correction to bring out more of the red in the bricks. I liked how blue the metal of the trowel came out.

It’s mostly just a fun experiment. Unfortunately, the monitor here at work sucks balls and the color isn’t the best on it. I’ve noticed when I’ve gone home and looked at stuff on my monitors at home (most noticeably, my palettes from colourlovers.com) that the colors are all wonky. I’m hoping to get a new LCD here at work eventually – but I’m not holding my breath.

*naturally, the copyright for the picture goes to Valerie herself