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Apr 8th, 2008 by Jeff

 jeff@jeffagogo.com

Jeff at Cottesloe Beach

25 Responses to “Contact”

  1. Roy Buron says:
    June 11, 2008 at 6:11 pm

    Hi ,I am a keen model maker, and would love to build a “Leonardo’s wind up car, and one or two others like the glider, is there any chance of a plan or any drawings that might help my quest.

    What a fantastic job, you have done “first class”

    Roy Burton
    1 ARDBEG ROAD
    GREENOCK , RENFEWSHIRE PA15 3JL UK.

  2. Jeff says:
    June 12, 2008 at 1:04 am

    Hi Roy,

    Thanks for looking at my blog post on the Leonardo Machines Exhibition.

    The builders of these models would have referred to copies of the original plans by Leonardo in order build the models, but where to find copies of these plans I’m not sure. The exhibition does have a website:

    http://www.davincimuseum.com.au

    and there is an info email address there.

    From what I recall the Australian exhibition manager’ name for this event is Thomas Rizzo, who would most likely know the “Artisans of Florence”, the constructors of these exhibition models.

    Hope this helps

  3. binkie says:
    September 14, 2008 at 9:14 am

    Hi!

    Thanks for the great tutorials. Could you possibly add how to put two or more photos together to make one photo? I am new to this and having trouble figuring it out.

    Thanks
    binkie

  4. Jeff says:
    September 14, 2008 at 9:37 am

    HI Binkie,

    Take a look at my tutorial on merging photos together:
    http://jeffagogo.com/?p=421

    Hope this helps.
    Jeff.

  5. Glynn says:
    December 9, 2008 at 4:34 am

    Jeff,
    Thanks for the great work here. Could you do a detailed explanation for “skin smoothing”? Any help would be great.
    Thank you,
    Glynn

  6. Amy says:
    March 15, 2009 at 7:22 pm

    Hiya, great work!
    I like editing pics for sims 2 and wondering how you make the hair and skin like this.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/imo-ruby/3243280423/in/set-72157612526760512/
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/imo-ruby/3278665158/in/set-72157612526760512/
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/imo-ruby/3311502457/in/set-72157612526760512/

    Can you see how the hair is, like, brushed? And the skin is glowing?
    PLEASE HELP! Thanks.

  7. Jeff says:
    March 20, 2009 at 11:30 pm

    Amy: Hi! I’ve taken a good look at doing this effect on Photofiltre and unfortunately come to the conclusion that this beyond the capabilties of the free version of Photofiltre. Which means doing it on either Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator or GIMP :-(

  8. davonte carson says:
    May 10, 2009 at 2:44 am

    im wondering how to make texts like this on photofiltre
    where it looks almost 3d

    can you put a tutorial of this on your website for photofiltre

  9. Jeff says:
    May 10, 2009 at 10:29 am

    Hi Davonte,

    I’ve had a look at the Dreadhead’s MySpace pic.. looks pretty cool. I like the way it’s cut out and then stroked yellow…quite easy to do on Photofiltre and the result is excellent.
    Also a good choice of fonts…Although I can’t indentify them offhand, but you can see that good fonts further enhance the overall appearance of the graphic.
    From I can see, the text of “Dreadhead” has just been stroked with yellow on the outside, with the main font colour black. Use the “effects” tab on the Text Tool and click the “Stroke” box and set colour to yellow.
    The text “Swaggaholic” has also been stroked yellow, but also has a “drop shadow” applied to it. This effect can also be applied from the Text Tool “effects” tab. To apply it, goto the Effects tab & click the “Drop Shadow” box then choose the options such as colour of drop shadow and position. Click OK to see the result, if not happy, then click on the Tool Tool again and make some adjustments.

    A 3d text tutorial is a great idea…will put that in my “to do” list.

    Jeff.

  10. TAYLOR says:
    June 9, 2009 at 9:58 am

    how do you make a frame around a circle on photofiltre.?

  11. Jeff says:
    June 9, 2009 at 9:25 pm

    Hi Taylor,

    It’s a little bit tricky putting a frame around a circle. You best bet is to copy the original circle by either using the magic wand or using the circle tool, then right click COPY. While it’s still “selected” goto Selection>>Expand on main menu. Then expand the selection to choose your border width.
    Next right mouse click to Stroke and fill, then fill the circle with the outside border colour. This will cover over the inside part as well, so we need to restore the inside part now….

    Next paste in the “inside” part you copied earlier on over the larger border colour.. That should do it. :-)

    Cheers,

    Jeff.

  12. TAYLOR says:
    June 10, 2009 at 10:23 am

    thnks so much! jeff i really appreciate that i’ve spent months googling that :)

  13. Katrina says:
    June 24, 2009 at 12:20 am

    Hey um how can you make 2 pictures fit in one?

  14. Natalie says:
    August 7, 2009 at 9:50 am

    Hey Jeff, your tutorials are great! But I was wondering how you could make the faded edges like on film pictures. A vignette?

  15. Jeff says:
    August 8, 2009 at 12:28 am

    Hi Natalie…Thanks for asking…I should do a tutorial on this one.

    Here’s a way of doing it:

    1. Open your photo..then Right Mouse and now select “Clear” this will make everything white.
    2. Goto Elipse Tool
    3. Draw the elipse about where you want the vignette to be.
    4. Right mouse click>>select Invert Selection
    5. Right Mouse click again and select “Stroke and Fill”
    6. Tick the Fill Box and select colour Black. Make sure Stroke is UNticked. The outside should now be filled with Black.
    7. Press escape or the show/unselect button to remove the selection outline
    8. Goto Filter>>Visual Effect>>Gaussian Blur
    9. Turn the setting up all the way to 30pixels. This blurs everything.
    10. Right Mouse click and select COPY.
    11. Now click on the “UNDO” button until you get back to the original photo you started with.
    12. Goto EDIT>>PASTE SPECIAL>>MASK
    13. Right Mouse click and select “Validate Paste”
    14. Done…. but if you like you can fade the Vignette a little by going to EDIT>>FADE MASK

    Jeff.

  16. Tom says:
    September 21, 2009 at 10:19 pm

    Hi Jeff,

    your tutorials rock! i really liked photofiltre for the quick picture-edit, but i didnt know that its that good.

    thanks.

  17. olivia says:
    October 25, 2009 at 6:50 am

    i was trying to click copy while blending a picture on polyvore,
    i googled it
    you showed up a bunch of time
    wondering if you could help?

  18. olivia says:
    October 25, 2009 at 6:50 am

    i was trying to click copy while blending a picture on polyvore,
    it said there is not enough storage
    i googled it
    you showed up a bunch of time
    wondering if you could help?

  19. Nicole says:
    October 30, 2009 at 3:15 am

    Hey Jeff,
    Your tutorials really help me.
    I was wondering if you could help on how to make something gradient. For example, A shirt in a photo? Like gradient pink and blue? Thanks.
    -Nikki. (:

  20. Jeff says:
    November 5, 2009 at 10:55 am

    Hi Nicole,

    Select an area to make the gradient over (using the polgon tool for example) then select the gradient tool, select pink and blue as your colours, adjust opacity, and then direction of the gradient ( top to bottom, left to right etc) then OK.

    Also, even better…grab the Gradient Plugin for Photofiltre:

    http://photofiltre.free.fr/plugins/plugins.php?lang=en

    The Gradient plugin allows you to choose up to 8 different colours and use different angles..along with a few more features.

    Jeff.

  21. taylor says:
    December 6, 2009 at 2:40 pm

    Hey Jeff I was Wondering If you Knew How To Put a frame around a star? such as this photo right here i found recently

    http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/35/l_e154dbe29ebb49349c92bca30c6ba7e3.png

  22. Jeff says:
    December 7, 2009 at 10:16 am

    Hi Taylor,

    Here’s how to do that:

    Open a picture.
    On the menu, goto Selection>>Load Shape
    Select Star02.pfs
    Position the star over the part you like
    Right mouse click ands select Stroke & Fill
    Tick the stroke box(make sure Fill is unticked)
    Select colour you like
    Select the width (about 5 will be good start)
    click OK..

    Thats a basic method, you can then cut this out and paste onto another pic if you want(although you can do this a few different ways)

    Hope this gets you started, regards Jeff :-)

  23. Nicole says:
    December 19, 2009 at 4:42 am

    Hey Jeff,
    I wanted to know how to make two selections with the polygon tool.
    For example, when I want to do the effect where you select someone’s eyes in a photo, and make the rest black and white. I want to know how to select both of their eyes at the same time. Help?
    Thanks, Nicole.

  24. Jeff says:
    December 23, 2009 at 10:07 am

    HI Nicole,

    One way of doing this:

    1. Make duplicate of photo. Image>> Dulpicate
    2. Make one of these Black&White ..click the grayscale button
    3. Goto the coloured photo and then use the Polygon Tool to cut around the first eye.
    4. Copy this eye selection. (Right mouse click and Copy)
    5. Paste the coloured eye onto the B&W duplicate photo. Use the Zoom function on the whole pic to enlarge it so you can place it exactly over the B&W part.
    6. Then Repeat for other eye.

    Cheers,

    Jeff.

  25. Leah says:
    April 6, 2010 at 12:22 pm

    Hey,
    I was wondering how you blend two images together like this…

    http://photofiltre.free.fr/tutoriels/fondu/res.jpg

    I used this tutorial but did not succeed in recreating the picture above.

    http://photofiltre.free.fr/tutoriels/blending.htm

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