The Palestinian question is easily answered

The 2009 Malt Shovel Calendar - now available.

I know how much you chaps at the MS appreciate your pint being perfectly presented.
I thought that if the Womens Institute could do their own calendar that it is high time that Malt Shovellers had their own calendar for 2009.

Click here to see my 2009 offering. (Pirelli - eat your heart out)!

Looking for my wallet

I understand just how this man feels!

Photoshop

The website business is currently very slow, so I am currently keeping busy by learning Photoshop. Hitherto, I have used Macromedia's excellent Fireworks for graphics. However, as Macromedia were taken over by Adobe I am now having to learn Photoshop. Learning one's way around any piece of new software is a challenge, so I decided to look for some help and instruction.

I subscribed about £45 for an online training course. You get 12 short 5 to 10 minute videos to watch. Rather than wade your way through a manual that is thicker than a telephone directory,
Learn Photoshop Now reckon that they can teach you the basics in about two hours. And how have I found the course? Utterly brilliant! And, what's more the commentary is extremely precise and to the point, and is in English, which is a right result.

This morning I cracked lesson 9 which was all about digital image enhancement. I was able to remove a few moles from the otherwise flawless face of a model. I have taken a picture of a lighthouse taken in daylight and rendered it at night time under a starry sky and added a lighthouse beam. I have quite astonished myself.

A few weeks ago I took some wedding photographs. The photos with the background being Horsham Rugby Clubs's playing fields. In the background of these pics were lots of unsightly rugby goal posts and a number of metal pylons that support lights for evening training sessions.

In double quick time I have now made them all disappear, thereby enhancing the pictures considerably.

Not exactly earth shattering, perhaps, but it gives me a feeling of having achieved something worthwhile and that makes this old git very happy indeed. Now it's definitely time for a pint.