Cue this new kind of before and after, all in one picture.
Before and after getting dressed for a party. :)
Wanna know how I did it? Leave me a comment. If I get enough interest, I'll share my tips.
Showing posts with label Before and After. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Before and After. Show all posts
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Before and After
From time to time, I get bored. Big shocker I'm sure! And when I get bored I try to channel my creativity to try something new. That may mean by doing a DIY project around the house, shopping for supplies for said projects....but a lot of the time it means experimenting with photography and utilizing my photoshop skills to come up with something new.
Cue this new kind of before and after, all in one picture.
Before and after getting dressed for a party. :)
Wanna know how I did it? Leave me a comment. If I get enough interest, I'll share my tips.
Cue this new kind of before and after, all in one picture.
Before and after getting dressed for a party. :)
Wanna know how I did it? Leave me a comment. If I get enough interest, I'll share my tips.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Before and After with Pixel Perfect
Recently I stumbled upon a new really cool blog, Pixel Perfect.
And over there she has a really cool, reoccurring theme that she does. She asks people to post a before and after shot of a picture. You start with showing an SOOC (straight out of the camera) shot. And then to share the image after editing. I LOVE this idea! I love being able to see that you don't have to have the most perfect picture to start with, to get a really beautiful final picture! So here is my first time sharing a before/after post.
So here is a picture that I took of our dog, Tucker. He had been laying on the couch with my husband. So I reached for my camera to play around. I took several, but this one was at the beginning before I changed to better settings. But I still held on to it because of his cute face.
I shot the before picture with a Canon Rebel. And edited with Photoshop CS3.
I didn't use a flash and it was taken in manual mode, inside a dark room. Before seeing this challenge this picture sat in a folder most likely to never be touched again. It is dark, too yellow, and I had other shots that were closer to what I wanted. But I love the outcome.
A quick rundown of my editing process:
-duplicate background layer
-set new layer's blending mode to screen
-used color balance to take away some of the yellow and greens
-played with curves to lighten and add some blue tint
-added a texture, blending mode set to Hard Light at 58% opacity
-painted away texture from his face using a layer mask
-a little more playing with curves til I liked the results
Do you have any pictures that could use a little love?
And over there she has a really cool, reoccurring theme that she does. She asks people to post a before and after shot of a picture. You start with showing an SOOC (straight out of the camera) shot. And then to share the image after editing. I LOVE this idea! I love being able to see that you don't have to have the most perfect picture to start with, to get a really beautiful final picture! So here is my first time sharing a before/after post.
So here is a picture that I took of our dog, Tucker. He had been laying on the couch with my husband. So I reached for my camera to play around. I took several, but this one was at the beginning before I changed to better settings. But I still held on to it because of his cute face.
I didn't use a flash and it was taken in manual mode, inside a dark room. Before seeing this challenge this picture sat in a folder most likely to never be touched again. It is dark, too yellow, and I had other shots that were closer to what I wanted. But I love the outcome.
A quick rundown of my editing process:
-duplicate background layer
-set new layer's blending mode to screen
-used color balance to take away some of the yellow and greens
-played with curves to lighten and add some blue tint
-added a texture, blending mode set to Hard Light at 58% opacity
-painted away texture from his face using a layer mask
-a little more playing with curves til I liked the results
Do you have any pictures that could use a little love?
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