Audrey Waitkus
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Our grocer displays their bananas laid out from the freshest to the oldest, and moves the bananas from left to right to make them available in all stages: no waiting for your bananas to go over-ripe so you can make banana bread. With no way to capture the entire display in one photograph, I took a series of four so I could combine them into a panorama. (Note that our website only allows three "before" entries, but that's enough to show the idea) Here I was more interested in the story than in the technical aspects, but I still did a lot of touching up to adjust for angles and tilts of the originals. Photoshop has a wonderful built-in panorama assembly function, so the heavy work was done automatically. Then using Photoshop's assortment of warp functions, I corrected for distortions in the angles, cloned out distractions, moved a few hands of bananas to empty spots, and so on. The lighting was great in the store, so all that was left was to save for the web.
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As for Photoshop I started from ground zero back around 2006. At that time, with a new camera, I took a photography class. The instructor would deliver everyone's negatives to a developer in a nearby town and retrieve the results. Only problem was that I had one of those new-fangled cameras that only produced digital negatives. So I secured and learned to use a "new" program (Photoshop Elements). I kept returning to take additional classes and, of course, soon everyone had digital cameras and we progressed through the iterations of Photoshop and eventually Lightroom (which I rarely use). Along with the instructors' guidance through software-intensive classes and my own "try-everything" curiosity, I learned many facets of Photoshop in depth. I sort of topped out relatively recently with all the new stuff (think AI, etc) and still do most things the "old" way. I also spent endless hours with Photoshop's tutorials and video presentations over the years and still return to them when I "forget" something or want to use something that's new or updated.   Posted: 07/02/2025 17:07:19