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I’ve been reading a lot of tips and tricks in photo manipulation, I guess it’s my escape from the reality that I still can’t buy my own SLR Camera just yet.

Like web design, I’m very much interested with photography and photo manipulation. And I’ve been thinking of buying an SLR Camera (or DSLR) but I still need to save money for it, plus saving money is hard to do especially right now that I am planning on leaving my work for a while because of board exam review.

So for now, I am much happy with photo manipulation.

I’ve tried my newly acquired knowledge into one of Chico Garcia’s works. Being a Rusher, and knowing that Chico Garcia is into photography, I am always dropping by his blog and checking out his gallery. And I tried it (photo manipulation, that is) into one of his shots:

After a few tweaks, I’ve managed to come up with this:

See the difference? I made a split image of it:

Hope you guys like it! I’ll be editing my own shots (using my VGA camera phone and another phone by my sister ) I really need to buy me a camera, care to donate? Email me! Haha! Seriously, email me!

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