{"id":10013,"date":"2013-09-26T07:48:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T14:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=10013"},"modified":"2013-09-26T07:48:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T14:48:56","slug":"an-artist-geologist-uses-photoshop-to-render-the-history-of-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/26\/an-artist-geologist-uses-photoshop-to-render-the-history-of-the-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"An artist-geologist uses Photoshop to render the history of the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/rcb7\/\">Ronald Blakey<\/a>, illustrator of\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1934656038\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1934656038&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=bldgblog-20\">Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0creates some interesting visualizations:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I actually forget when I first started with Photoshop \u2014 probably in the mid-1990s. When I found that, I just thought, wow: the power of this is incredible. I quickly learned how to use the cloning tool, so that I could clone modern topography onto ancient maps, and that made things even simpler yet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2013\/09\/what-did-the-continents-look-like-millions-of-years-ago\/279892\/\">the whole piece on The Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/files\/2013\/09\/Earth.jpg\" alt=\"Earth\" width=\"425\" height=\"421\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10015\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronald Blakey, illustrator of\u00a0Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau,\u00a0creates some interesting visualizations: I actually forget when I first started with Photoshop \u2014 probably in the mid-1990s. When I found that, I just thought, wow: the power of this is incredible. I quickly learned how to use the cloning tool, so that I could clone modern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10013"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}