About

I’m Digital Lady Syd aka Syd Johnson.  I love taking pictures and processing them in Photoshop.  I also do a bit of Rebelle and Corel Painter with my image when I have the time. I have two blogs:  my Tidbits Blog which is just a short blog covering anything I feel like sharing in the Photoshop/Photography field; and my Fun Photoshop Blog, which has developed into instruction and resource based information. My main aim is to show everyone how flexible and fun Photoshop can be. I have been featured on Topaz Labs website and included in newsletters from Nik Software (back in the day). Some of my Bahama images were published in the Fall 2012 edition of Marinalife magazine.

I began photography in earnest when my husband gave me a Pentax K1000 film camera in the 1980’s. I did not have a lot of time to learn it, but I totally enjoyed taking pictures on our vacations and of the kids as they grew up. I was introduced to Digital Photography in 1998 when working for an engineering firm that used project images for reports and marketing. A Sony Camera was used and the images were saved down onto a 3-1/2 disk, but it was enough to get me hooked on digital photography. I first learned Adobe Photo Deluxe which taught me the basics (and came with the camera) and then began using Photoshop at version 5.0. It has been fun to see how the program has changed and expanded over the years and how digital photography has grown. I now have the luxury of being able to take lots of pictures and work on my images.

See my Portfolio at SydJohnson.com

My Flickr account is at Flickr.com/SydJohnson

See my Fun Photoshop Blog for tutorials and resource information.

Here I am sailing with my husband, Glenn.

Photography takes up a good portion of my time now. I also love to dabble in Astronomy, which I have always loved since I was 12 years old, Sailing, and Golf.