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Eric are you a civil war reinactor? I like the hat. That is an artillery hat isent it? 
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springer said
Eric are you a civil war reinactor? I like the hat. That is an artillery hat isent it?
Yes sir! I'm a member of the largest Civil War artillery division in the Midwest! We have 5 full scale cannons, including one original from 1856!
I just added my "cross-cannons" to my kepi shortly after that picture was take! 
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Thanks Eric! Keep on keeping on.
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Great pics EJ!!! Not to get too sidetracked from the topic of "violin", I use Lightroom a LOT, and I've de-saturated various colors in a pic but I don't know how to only saturate a single item in a pic v. saturating only a certain color. In PS, I think it's done using masking right,,, which I also use, just not very well; I use Lightroom to manipulate a photo and I use PS to make layered images. Do you know of a good, simple, inexpensive tutorial on how to do what you did your two pics???
Btw, have you ever been to the fort on Lake Ontario at Oswego? Some great canons (which have been thoroughly molested btw by SUNY Oswego college students,,, unfortunately I can't exclude myself from that lot) facing the port; very cool setting. I'll bet you have a ball with the reenactments.
Naska - no vid of your performance!?!? 
; wanted to see it! I'm sure you did much better than you're leading on.
You can just mask off what you don't want desaturated or copy to another layer and erase all you don't want set the first layer to black and white then flatten the image.
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Thanks Kevin, I know it sounds simple, I think I probably need to find a vid to understand exactly what you're talking about; I'm sure it's easy, I just don't know what steps to take. I appreciate your help though.
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The method I use is actually much simpler in my opinion. I just set the Art History Brush tool, desaturate the entire picture, then bring back the parts I want in color. You can also use the color selector tool ("magic wand"), select the color you want to keep, go to options and choose "select inverse" and then desaturate. Both ways are pretty effective. I personally prefer the first one because I can knock out a good picture in a matter of minutes! 
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” ~Benjamin Franklin
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Very cool; thanks Eric! I appreciate the "non-violin help" Eric & Kevin.
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Naska - no vid of your performance!?!?
There is, but really it doesn't worth watching 
... I'll better record something else to post here...
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Mad_Wed said
ftufc said
Naska - no vid of your performance!?!?There is, but really it doesn't worth watching
Awww - we really wanted to see you up on stage with the other students.
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Mad_Wed said
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Naska - no vid of your performance!?!?There is, but really it doesn't worth watching
Awe! I want to see it to!! Trust me, it could not have been as bad as all the attempts made to record me! LOL
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” ~Benjamin Franklin
Ok. But You won't see me along with others, Dionysia - we all played solos.
Anyway, -> 
this video <- is NOT RECOMMENDED FOR WATCHING! No right notes there! 
If one can to not watch this - then better don't (i don't watch it). Thank God, we didn't play Solveig's song twice as it should be.. All the way i wanted to cry and run away from the stage... but i didn't...Why the heck i didn't?!?
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Aww Naska - that wasn't so bad! Although I can imagine it was probably the longest five minutes of your life.
I love the Chattanooga Choo-Choo boogie you worked in there.
Now you and Jim just need to work on a duet.
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NASKA! You are adorable!!! Such a nice job on Chattanooga Choochoo; you looked like you were starting to have fun, you loosened up, it sounded great!
I'm sure it was so hard though, especially if your performance was in front of people who didn't know you. Thank you so much for sharing that!
Naska, you probably think only of your mistakes, but I hope to play as well, and as courageously on a stage alone, some day. Thanks for sharing! 
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Love your striped pants 
you looked uncomfortable with the 2 first tunes, probably stressed hehe, I could not do a recital no way, too shy for that, so congrats on your courage! With the last song you looked like you were enjoying yourself though! I love how flexible your fingers are, something I will have to work on, you are a good exemple of how it should be 
"It can sing like a bird, it can cry like a human being, it can be very angry, it can be all that humans are" Maxim Vengerov
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Not bad at all. You have things to work on but that is natural. This is all a learning experience. I remember you telling us how hard it was to perform the first time. Just work up the courage to do it more often and it will pay off. I like that you were moving on the Chattanooga Choo choo.
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AWESOME Naska!!! Great job!!
I noticed that every time I looked up or out at the people, I choked! I actually had to look down or away to start a song in order to remain calm and not have any more brain-farts! LOL
You did a VERY good job with all eyes on you!!
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” ~Benjamin Franklin
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