In my suburban setting, we rarely get deer at our lake, in spite of the fact we have a creek and greenway attached. I've seen deer at night on my walks, but never from my window.

Good job blurring the too-busy background on 2 and 3 . That's easy to overdo.

If you received my email, then you need not have the address listed there at all. (No spam!)

http://thebooksetter.com/Images/Dan-Sig.png

Were you able to make any money doing that?

Much better!

You can increase the width, too.

http://thebooksetter.com/Images/Dan-Sig.png

Beautiful!

You're a better photographer than I am so I'll leave that subject to others.

The vertical size of many pictures is too large. Your web site should not be taller than 900 pixels (My screen is 1024 px)

Consider using a percentage instead of hard numbers for your display size. Otherwise you'll have to change the size of the photographs in Photoshop.

Without changing anything on the page, you have 628 vertical pixels (on my screen) to display the pics. I've marked up the Bio page. Make those positional changes and then determine the maximum allowable vertical size for your pics. The changes below will gain you about 90 pixels. (Making max vertical 718 px)

Move your nav bar to the left and the facebook button up beside it. Change the words so they more closely match the width of the facebook 'like' button. They extend too far to the left and the word 'Like' is less intimidating than 'Become a fan of'.

Oh yeah -- series is misspelled and should not be capitalized. The left margin should be the same on all four sides.
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Cropped on bottom


You have room at the top

It isn't going on. I've seen the piece. None of it is true.

Did you expect Aljazeera to be truthful?

If so, I have this bridge in Brooklyn I'll sell you real cheap.

Not once you got the hang of it. It moves quickly. Just zoom in and ignore everything that's not dog.

I didn't use the magic wand because it left square edges and I would have to soften them with the same eraser brush anyhow.
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The trick is in the Layers and a fuzzy eraser brush.

You succeeded admirably and solved the problem of the dissimilar background.

Myrna wins my vote.

Johnny had the right of it with the dark background and highlight behind Onyx. Also it didn't hurt to have the entire dog tightly outlined.

The problem with bringing in background images is how they look. All the other images shown were lit differently. (sun, etc)

What kind of a background were you thinking of?

You might want to take a flash picture for the express purpose of placing Onyx in it.

I notice the file name begins with "Thumbnail". Please use the biggest pic available.

That's called 'serendipity' This one is about 83 yards from my back door and much more pleasing to the eye than the pic I tried to take.
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If you can sneak through that thicket, you're a better sneaker than I am.

The first thing I do after opening "ThisPic.RAW" in Photoshop is to save as "ThisPic.psd". This becomes my working copy. If I know I'm going to be doing extensive edits, I create a folder "ThisPic ƒ". There might be any number of versions in that folder.

"ThisPicV0.8c.psd"

Then generate jpegs as needed. but typically, jpegs are throwaways. except when a certain dimension jpeg is needed.
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Very complicated. :D

a. Drag it to the PSE icon.
b. There is no "b"
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