Pastel Tiger Completed

"Bad Fur Day"
20 x 16 inches, pastel on Fisher paper.

Although the tiger was completed without any issues, getting a colour corrected image was incredibly difficult. This was due to both my desktop and laptop computers dying at more or less the same time.

I had an old edition of Photoshop running on the desktop so when that computer ceased to function I wasn't too worried as I have the full CS4 suite running on my Mac Pro Book.

I decided I couldn't justify the expense of buying the windows version for my desktop and I would manage with Photoshop Elements.

So my son went ahead and rebuilt my computer. Within hours of wiping the hard drive my laptop got stuck in an update sequence and of course I couldn't find the system disc to reboot.

So I am currently waiting for new discs to be shipped to me so that my son can (hopefully) repair the laptop.

I needed an accurate image of the tiger because I wanted to submit it on line to a competition.

I couldn't scan because it was far to big for the scanner so I had to photograph it. The light was so poor the resulting image needed correcting which I found incredibly difficult using Elements. I need to add that the version of Elements I had is really, really old, I'm sure the newer versions are far better to use.

I did manage but what would have been a small tweak in Photoshop became a huge task.

Fingers crossed that my laptop is soon operational.