Vintage and Victorian photos and prints

I always enjoy visiting Grapefruitmoon Gallery, where I can find lots of memorabilia items, as well as decorative beauties.

Here are some images I found so lovely:

MYTHOLOGICAL GODDESSES LEGEND OF THE LAKES BY ZATZKA NR

 

HARPER ART DECO FLAPPER AT MASQUERADE PARTY PRINT

 

EROTIC FLAPPER GIRL 1920s

 

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Vintage–Turorial Adobe CS5

How can you transform this:

 

 

into this:

I have to say, I was amazed at the well explained tutorial for this effect.

You can check it at AdobeTutorialz

My only problem is that I have cs4 so I don’t know if I will be able to make it.

Vintage effect. Great!

Today I tried something I really enjoyed and it is to give an old effect to modern photos. If you read my post about the Polaroid effect, you will see the photo I used is not so adequate but it really gives the “effect”. But today I did as said on this page and I must say the results are great.

Here is the photo without retouching:



Just applied a few effects and.. voila!:







Very seventies, isn’t it.


And if you want an old effect newspaper or old magazine style, just follow the instruction given the same link:




I definitely am going to play with my personal photos and will say it’s my grandmother, so we look alike so close!

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Those were the times!

Boy Chiefs of the Sioux

via

Vintage Hollywood Flashback: The Golden Globes in the '50s, '60s & '70s!

 

Eddie Fisher, Liz Taylor , Mike Todd

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PICABOO

Just gave a try to Picaboo, made a card….and it is great.

The software download page, presentation… sounds to me like the same authors of Picasa. What do you think?

 

Old Fashioned

 

Seriously the one over the left looks very elegant!. Ah those times…

So many tuts so little time…

Today I have started my first lesson on Scrapbooking. I mean the serious ones, not just the ones I take while I random different places and taking more advanced lessons, thus letting me a bit exhausted! I have started with the basics and learned tips that I really didn’t know. These lessons are going to take me many days, probably weeks, but while I learn I will be able to start creating my own embellishments, and kits. I like the idea of using other great creator’s kits, be them free or not. In fact, I have just finished scrapbooking a lovely poster that I intend to print at the lab, as my new printer has A3 dimensions which is good but not for big posters. I see the fabulous creations people do and I feel inspired. I also love drawing myself certain little designs for children mainly, very sweet, so perhaps I will upload them to deviantart. I will see.

I also have to start with lessons for Adobe Photoshop Elements and especially Adobe Acrobat. I want to get a Bamboo kit, this is so important!

Although I love PSP I realize that there is a great way of developing creativity using Adobe Photoshop so I will do that too, lots of tutorials here and there, I need to make a weekly list, if not I could become nuts!

Scrapbooking is lovely, it is what allows us to do things for others and also to create things for our own satisfaction. Ah, internet is always helping out with Scrapbooking.

 

Dr. William Montgomery McGovern

Dr. William Montgomery McGovern
(September 28, 1897 – December 12, 1964)
Dr. William Montgomery McGovern was an American adventurer, Northwestern University professor, anthropologist and journalist. He is credited with being the first Westerner to enter the Tibetan capital of Lhasa and was possibly an inspiration for the character of Indiana Jones...

 

As in Jacmel, as in Montrouis…

Little has changed from these kodachromes taken in 1949. The same style, the beauty and ugliness and above all the same “hope” that can be felt in each corner of the peasants in the countryside. Haiti with a lovely glamour declined afterwards and became the sad sun rising everyday in muddy waters…

FARTHEST NORTH

Sigurd Scott-Hansen

(From a photograph taken in December, 1893)

 

Landing on Yalmal

(By Otto Sinding, from a Photograph)

 

A warm (?!) corner among the walruses, off East Taimur

(By Otto Sinding)

 

A chronometer observation with the theodolite

Johansen Scott-Hansen

(From a photograph)

 

 

Observing the eclipse of the sun. April 6, 1894

Johansen Nansen Scott-Hansen

(From a photograph)

 

 

Plate VIII.

Moonlight, 22nd November 1893. Pastel Sketch.

A vertical axis passes through the moon with a strongly-marked luminous patch where it intersects the horizon. A suggestion of a horizontal axis on each side of the moon; portions of the moon-ring with mock moons visible on either hand.

From the book “Farthest North”

Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896

Author: Fridtjof Nansen

Contributor: Otto Sverdrup

Always new interesting discoveries on Guttenberg.org

oH nO…