Aug 16, 2007
How cool is this?!!
This was actually pretty easy to do. You simply create a duplicate layer, erase everything but the flower, go back to the first layer and make it black and white then merge/flatten the image and this is what you have!!
Photoshop Elements 5 (PSE5)
I'm learning SO MUCH about this program by just jumping in and fiddling around. I've worked on some more of Katie's photos and have printed them out onto glossy 4x6 prints and have them spread out on the living room floor for analyzing.
I'm about to kick the yellow ink cartridge, so I MUST get to Staples for more in the next 48 hours. I'm also using the Staples glossy photo plus 4x6 paper and must say that I'm quite pleased. It will work well for home prints and proofs for friends/family.
So what have I learned?
-to erase "blemishes"
-how to use the dodge and burn tools
-how to crop and angle a photo
-how to make my black and white backgrounds clean
-to to make black and white photos pop
Here are some applied examples of what I have learned (final product only):
Aug 14, 2007
Photo Shoot with the Lovely KATIE JO!
My GORGEOUS 16 year old neice, Katie Jo, is here with me until tomorrow - so OF COURSE, we had to have a photo shoot.
She was a trooper - even climbing up into a tree for me! We used the back yard, tried the cemetery (didn't work out so well), the high school and the park. We had so much fun!! A lot of these look like senior pictures to me, but some are just funky! We took literally 100's of pictures, but I was only able to process a couple so I could post them here for her mom to see. Now that I'm looking at them again, I can see that some need additional processing!
Introducing . . . Miss Katie Jo!!
She was a trooper - even climbing up into a tree for me! We used the back yard, tried the cemetery (didn't work out so well), the high school and the park. We had so much fun!! A lot of these look like senior pictures to me, but some are just funky! We took literally 100's of pictures, but I was only able to process a couple so I could post them here for her mom to see. Now that I'm looking at them again, I can see that some need additional processing!
Introducing . . . Miss Katie Jo!!
Aug 13, 2007
Aug 12, 2007
Photo Enhancement
Ok - I know that without a polarizer, my sky and grass will be washed out when taken during full light like today. So I turned to PSE5 for some assistance in recreating what I actually saw when taking this photo.
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