Vintage-y:
Brightened/Sharpened (the best I know how so far, using a sub-par 8megapixel camera):
Happy end-of-February!
Showing posts with label photoshop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photoshop. Show all posts
Monday, February 28, 2011
Photoshopping my Life
A photo of the chalet we hiked to on our one-year anniversary - Glacier National Park, Montana. Unedited.
Vintage-y:
Brightened/Sharpened (the best I know how so far, using a sub-par 8megapixel camera):
Happy end-of-February!
Vintage-y:
Brightened/Sharpened (the best I know how so far, using a sub-par 8megapixel camera):
Happy end-of-February!
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Learning Photoshop
I've been trying to find a good tutorial to teach me how to make my photos look vintage-y and washed out. I love that look.
I'm positive my pictures would look better if they were taken with a nicer camera than an 8 megapixel point-and-shoot camera. But I just can't swallow paying $600 for a camera when I don't even know if I'd stick to the hobby. So I'll continue to play with Photoshop. Here's what I did today.
Kinda fun, right?
I'm positive my pictures would look better if they were taken with a nicer camera than an 8 megapixel point-and-shoot camera. But I just can't swallow paying $600 for a camera when I don't even know if I'd stick to the hobby. So I'll continue to play with Photoshop. Here's what I did today.
Monday, January 10, 2011
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Holiday Cards
I thought I'd share the cards we sent out this year - I ended up making them on Picasa. Now that I have Photoshop, just WAIT until next year!
Here is a sample of the food tags I'm making in Photoshop for our New Year's get together tomorrow night. More just for fun, since it should be obvious what the food is. : )
Happy New Year all!
Here is a sample of the food tags I'm making in Photoshop for our New Year's get together tomorrow night. More just for fun, since it should be obvious what the food is. : )
Happy New Year all!
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
My first digital scrapbook page
Hi all!
I have photos to share, but haven't uploaded them yet. Today I painted the master bathroom, which made a huge difference. Pictures to come. I also haven't shared pictures from Christmas or from organizing the closets. We don't have too many pictures from Christmas since we're the type of family that totally forgets about a camera when we're having so much fun! I'll see what I have, though.
In other news, I'm continuing to play with and learn more about my new program, Photoshop Elements 9. I like being able to edit photos, and hope to learn how to create other things on it, like prints. I also wanted to explore the world of Digital Scrapbooking. At first I turned my nose up at it, since it's not the real thing. Then when I realized how much cheaper it could be (assuming I only use free embellishments and paper) and how much less time consuming and MESSY it would actually be, I became interested. Not that I don't want to stop regular-scrapbooking (after all I just bought a craft table for just that).
Anyway, in true Lindsay fashion I got my mind on it and went a bit crazy with downloading free supplies. I also procrastinated doing the trim work in the bathroom today by organizing all the supplies into different folders in Picasa for easy previewing and organizing (ribbons, tags, alphabets, paper, buttons, etc.). Picasa, as I've been reading, is a great way to organize digital scrapbooking supplies because you can search by file name, color, type, etc. So it's like digging through drawers without all the hassle!
Without further ado, here is my first scrapbook page. It's a bit silly and cheesy (I was just playing around - ignore the quick text I put in.. not that it's not true) but I think it turned out alright. I'm excited to make more!
I have photos to share, but haven't uploaded them yet. Today I painted the master bathroom, which made a huge difference. Pictures to come. I also haven't shared pictures from Christmas or from organizing the closets. We don't have too many pictures from Christmas since we're the type of family that totally forgets about a camera when we're having so much fun! I'll see what I have, though.
In other news, I'm continuing to play with and learn more about my new program, Photoshop Elements 9. I like being able to edit photos, and hope to learn how to create other things on it, like prints. I also wanted to explore the world of Digital Scrapbooking. At first I turned my nose up at it, since it's not the real thing. Then when I realized how much cheaper it could be (assuming I only use free embellishments and paper) and how much less time consuming and MESSY it would actually be, I became interested. Not that I don't want to stop regular-scrapbooking (after all I just bought a craft table for just that).
Anyway, in true Lindsay fashion I got my mind on it and went a bit crazy with downloading free supplies. I also procrastinated doing the trim work in the bathroom today by organizing all the supplies into different folders in Picasa for easy previewing and organizing (ribbons, tags, alphabets, paper, buttons, etc.). Picasa, as I've been reading, is a great way to organize digital scrapbooking supplies because you can search by file name, color, type, etc. So it's like digging through drawers without all the hassle!
Without further ado, here is my first scrapbook page. It's a bit silly and cheesy (I was just playing around - ignore the quick text I put in.. not that it's not true) but I think it turned out alright. I'm excited to make more!
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Photoshop Elements, how I love thee...
Since I'm new to blogging/photo-editing, etc. I had only been playing around with free programs like Picasa (which I still like). John got me Photoshop Elements 9, however, from Costco for a good price. I don't have a great camera and don't make money from blogging or anything, so I just wanted something fun to play with. I had seen so many tutorials of things you can do to enhance your looks pictures that I wanted to try. I've only been on this for an hour or so, but here are some fun things I've found already:
And just for kicks, I played around with the "liquify" tool. What a dangerous thing. And yes, I know this looks super fake, but I'm new and I couldn't resist!
I know that Photoshop is nothing new to the technology world, but I just hadn't taken the plunge because of the price. Anyway, super fun and just another thing to add to my crafting.
More on Christmas another day. Hope everyone had a great day and took time to really think about the great things happening in their lives.
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| Original Photo - not too bad |
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| New photo - more stylized, clearer |
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| Real me - slightly pasty, average-sized |
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| Photoshop Me - tanner, thinner (check out those hips!) |
I know that Photoshop is nothing new to the technology world, but I just hadn't taken the plunge because of the price. Anyway, super fun and just another thing to add to my crafting.
More on Christmas another day. Hope everyone had a great day and took time to really think about the great things happening in their lives.
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