Tuesday, August 3, 2010

i LOVE photoshop!!

Oh my gosh! I can not tell you how much fun photoshop is when you kind of know what you are doing! I say kind of because the more I watch tutorials, the more I realize I really do not know what I'm doing. However, I still have fun. I found an awesome blog online, Pioneer Woman, who has been great at teaching me some new things to do on photoshop as well as how to use my darn camera. If you are remotely interested in photography but don't know where to start, I highly recommend her blog.
Well, as you have seen, we had new family pics taken. The girl who took them is new to photography and I was a little scared how they would turn out. When we got the CD back of pics, I eagerly put it in my CD-rom and I saw that the pictures were not half bad! There were a few that needed some tweaking though. I can not tell you how many hours I have been sitting in my jammies playing with these pictures in photoshop. I think I have some good before and afters for you though!

Before....


After...

Pictures with this many people posed to be quite challenging for me, but as you can see there were some definite changes. People got face lifts, coloring changed, even people's heads changed!!! Can you spot the differences? Like I said, there are some way cool things you can do in photoshop.

Here is another before....
and after....
In this one there is a facelift, blemish removal, lighting and coloring changes.

How about one more!

before...
and after...

I hope this post inspires you to start playing around with your photos. There are many cool things to be done

2 comments:

Jenna said...

Oh no~beware of many late nights playing around with pictures. I love my photoshop and agree that it is way too addicting especially when you love to play around on manual mode with your camera and then instantly download the photos into photoshop to make them POP!

Love that you finally have new cute pictures on here. Miss you!!

angie said...

I am way too scared to buy photoshop because I know I will never learn how to use it right. Looks awesome! Good Luck! (Let's see some more of that baby) ;)