{"id":22893,"date":"2019-02-08T05:37:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T02:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=22893"},"modified":"2023-07-20T19:44:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T19:44:01","slug":"haunted-schoolroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/02\/08\/haunted-schoolroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Haunted School House"},"content":{"rendered":"

A double-dose of postcarding goodness, this Friday. As well as the usual Friday ‘Picture Postal’, here’s a curious public domain postcard currently on eBay (not from me). It’s a macabre item from Newburyport, Mass., the real decaying shoreline town that was Lovecraft’s general model for Innsmouth. Of possible interest to role-players as a story-element in a scenario, as well as being a choice bit of Americana.<\/p>\n

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Regrettable it’s flashed on the right side. But here’s my Photoshop fix for that…<\/p>\n

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Camera flash-bounce \/ reflection-speckling on eBay vintage pictures can be covered up, if not entirely fixed, in Photoshop:<\/p>\n

1. Make a layer copy, invert.<\/p>\n

2. On the copy, loosely select the flash-speckled area with the Lasso tool. Feather selection by 33. Invert and delete unwanted area.<\/p>\n

3. On this sort of image you can now use a knockout plugin (such as Primatte) to remove more or less everything except the flash-speckle (which is now very dark).<\/p>\n

4. Experiment with the layer overlay mode to see what works best for your picture, in blending the dark speckles back over the top of the flash-speckled area.<\/p>\n

5. Merge. Make a few light dabs with the Burn tool, to assist with the blending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A double-dose of postcarding goodness, this Friday. As well as the usual Friday ‘Picture Postal’, here’s a curious public domain …<\/p>\n

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