Saturday, May 21, 2011

Edit Me Challenge! Week 1

This is my first time doing a link-up and I just love this idea.  Basically, we're given the original photo and we get to edit it as we see fit!  So, here is the before:


And after a little tweeking from picnik.com (Confession: I have Photoshop that I received for Christmas and have no idea how to use it!  haha) here is my edited photo!  Enjoy!


This picture reminds me of the movie South Pacific.  I thought it looked best aged and with a little more contrast than the original.  I first set the temperature to the max then played with the Film Grain effect, I boosted that to almost 70.  Then, a little brown and black vignette and viola! 
There are some other great edits to check out as well!

7 comments:

  1. Okay, I looove your edit! Can't believe you did that with picnik! You obvs have a great eye... I would encourage you to play with photoshop! Is it Elements or the full program? I can definitely give you some good places to start learning if you are interested :) So glad you joined in! :)

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  2. Thank you! It's just elements. I've tried a few tutorials online but most of them are super confusing. I know I've done some things in the past like a button somewhere to make the sky bluer but I couldn't remember how I did it last night. I'd love any advice! I have tons of pictures and I love spicing them up a bit!

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  3. wow! Your edit is seriously beautiful. I love it!
    And thanks for the comment :)

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  4. It almost looks like a still from an old movie. Very cool!

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  5. Your edit definately brought out the south pacific in it awesome job. I too was scared of photoshop and shy-ed away from it but if you look there are some wonderful blogs to help... try thecoffeeshopblog.com I found some great tutorials there or ask me for some tips sometime I used elements too

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  6. Very cool! You definitely achieved your goal. The effect is neat.

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