Lesson 8 Focus and Filters

This chapter was amazing and at times a little frustrating...
Sharpening the bears images was quite amazing-made me want to find all my out of focus photos and fix them up...The subway exercises were cool but frustrating...it was fun to take the graffiti off using the stamp tool, vanishing points and planes...making the grids was way cool-but adjusting the text was way frustrating-even he knew that when he said "good luck" finding the handles to resize and fit the text into the walls...this took the most time, but was intriguing because of the 3-D effect and working within the planes...cloning the walls and then moving them blew me away and thankfully this time he had good directions...so it made it easy to follow his steps.
of course, the best part about this chapter was the last lesson where we used the free-form distortions...this was way fun, fun, fun and again quite amazing and he had good instructions so that made it easy to follow...I was again amazed at the ability of photoshop to manipulate pixels....makes me want to buy photoshop so I can play around with images.