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putting my photoshop and sound engineering knowledge to good use:

1. recently, me and my mum dug into our old photo albums - particularly of me and my brother while we were not yet grown-ups. there was no such thing as digital cameras back then, and i thought it would be nice to have digital copies of those pictures. we chose the nice ones and had them scanned.

once inside the computer, i used what i learned about photoshop and got to work - restoring images to their original vibrancy, removed red-eyes, cleaned scratches and improved skin textures.

these pictures bring back fond memories. i particularly like the one where i sit on the bed with my late grandpa.

it appears that my brother managed to keep his distinct looks from birth until today. i failed.


2. mum found 3 cassette tapes. put them in the cassette player and played them back. she had a few good laughs. dad asked me to record them into a CD.

should i do it the easy way, or the hard way?

being very fussy about sound recording - and not wanting to waste all those years of training and experience - i did it the hard way. which involves plugging the cassette player to the computer, cleaning the play head, listening, recording, trimming, amplifying, listening, EQ-ing, listening, noise reduction-ing, and listening.

all that made me realise more and more what a little rascal i was. it seems little brother wasn't that bad (or was it because the recorder only caught me in action?) all i hear about him were either "awww...-ey" stuff or singing old songs really nicely.

anyway, now i believe more than anything that little brother is born with musical talents. and i am born to mess around with recordings (and subsequently with pictures and video).