{"id":492,"date":"2014-04-14T09:08:43","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T13:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=492"},"modified":"2014-05-15T17:38:26","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T21:38:26","slug":"photoshop-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/photoshop-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Photoshop Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Robin<\/a><\/span><\/i>\u201cCan you make a picture of me flying in the clouds?\u201d my friend had asked, looking up from her wheelchair. That was 3 weeks ago. After cancelling and rescheduling several times, we were finally together in her apartment squeezed between the wheelchair, a big armchair and a card-table.
\nThere were questions to consider: Would she fly horizontally or vertically? Did she want wings? What should she wear?
\nIn my collection of cloud photos there were wispy cirrus clouds in a blue sky over trees. There were bright sunlit mackerel skies. But she wanted thunderclouds, lightning, maybe a tornado. \u201cFor my dark side,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

It was raining when we shuffled outside to shoot her in a flying pose. She stood against the brick wall just outside the door, flapping her wings.
\n\u201cYou don\u2019t look very happy to be flying,\u201d I said. \u201cLook down at the ground like there\u2019s something special down there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Back inside, I inserted the chip from the camera into its slot in the computer. We sat at the card-table and chose a shot from the 21 images of my friend twisting, turning, banking into the wind with arms outstretched. I cut-and-pasted her form from the brick background to the photo of storm clouds.
\n\u201cI need to be smaller. No bigger. Can you make me higher in the sky? A little more to the right \u2026\u201d she orders.
\n\u201cYou\u2019re too pale,\u201d I say. \u201cI\u2019m adding blush to your cheeks.\u201d
\n\u201cWhat about the dark circle under my left eye?\u201d
\n\u201cI can fix that.\u201d
\n\u201cSomething\u2019s missing: what am I pointing at?\u201d she asks. \u201cShould we put a rat in the picture?\u201d
\n\u201cI don\u2019t have any photos of rats. What if we add another shot of you?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s name this one \u2018Ascension,\u2019\u201d she says, two hours and four pictures later. \u201cBesides making me prints, what are you going to do with all these?\u201d
\n\u201cWell\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\"Glennon<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019m still fixing. I\u2019m still a part of the Messy, Beautiful Warrior Project \u2014 To learn more and join us, CLICK HERE! <\/span><\/a>And to learn about the New York Times Bestselling Memoir, Carry On Warrior: The Power of Embracing Your Messy, Beautiful Life<\/b>, just released last week in paperback, CLICK HERE<\/a>!<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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