Fine-tuning your images ~ Chp 9

I took an old photo I had and worked with it today. I'm sure my Sister and or Mother will be able to tell me who this is, so that in another 5 yrs I'll forget again, lol...But I think it is a cousin with the last name of Heisler or Hisler. Anyways I knew I had this photo and it wasn't in the greatest shape...so what better photo to work with.

I used the healing brush and the spot healing brush...I also despeckled it. I could probably fine-tune it a bit more but time for a break...I also adjusted the color to black and white and then also to Sepia...I thought it turned out fairly good, better than the original photo.

If you click on the photos and pull them up you can see greater detail. The one horses nose was already blurry in the first photo and I honestly didn't see a way of fixing it...The original I have is a scanned copy and maybe it was messed up somewhere a long the line...

Chapter 7 Basic Image retouching

Tonight I finished chapter 7 which was basic image retouching. I used some of my park photos from the other day as they needed some help...(so do I, but I don't think adobe will work on me) lol...This photo below I thought came out pretty good but then after tweaking it in Adobe elements I was pleasantly surprised...I probably could have done more with it but sometimes you need to stop before you over do it...

It's amazing what you can do...I still believe a truly good photo doesn't need to be retouched but I'm learning it doesn't hurt to give your photos a boost when they need it.

I am skipping chapter 8 as it is mainly dealing with RAW photos and I do not shoot in RAW mode nor does my camera have it...Chapter 9 deals with fine-tuning your photos. Fixing blemishes, scratches and the clone tool....So stay tuned for those results....

Photo Therapy

Hummingbird

Inca Dove (Mexican Dove)

Just a few photos I took this evening.

Boy oh Boy

This is a paper layout I've had laying on my desk for over a week. I finally finished it, YEA!!

I think a patterned paper would have worked better for the blue paper but it's finished and what you see is what you get...Michael liked it!!

This is getting to be habit forming...

I did this layout with Adobe elements this afternoon. Nothing fantastic but was again just playing around with another kit I had...I've started with my Oct 2007 photos, YEA!! Only 23 more layouts to go to finish 2007....The kit is from scrapgirls.com and called 'I fish'.

Time with Kirby...

Well I did it today…All week I have been watching Kirby (Claudette’s husband (Claudette being the one that just died)) tinker around in the pasture cutting brush. I have left him alone as I know he was trying to deal with Claudettes death and did not want to bother him…Today I took Jake with me and walked down there….We hugged each other and just cried…We both miss her sooo much but Kirby more so….They were married 52 years…We sat down and I listened to Kirby…I think it was the right time to go see him. He needed to talk and I needed to be with him…Michael came down after awhile with his tractor and we started laughing at his antics…I’ve decided that once a week I’ll go out there and help him or just sit and talk…Michael, Jake and I can entertain him for a bit and ease his pain for a few moments…

Honest Attempt of blogging...

I promised an attempt to blog every day this week and here it is...I should have been working with my book and doing the lessons on Adobe elements 6 but I didn't wanna!! I wanted to play...Michael was asleep early and I thought OH GOODY I have peace and quiet...but I started getting sleepy....grrrr....and then I remembered oh NO I need to blog but I didn't take any photos today, Ekkk...So I went into Adobe and made my first layout, YEA...I used a kit that I recently downloaded called "Faded Beauty"...I loved the pastel colors and of course the floral theme...I had to find a photo and found one of Michael investigating a bloom...Now it's not a master piece and I did it in about 10 minutes but it was fairly easy. Now if I can learn a bit more. I did not adjust the photo before adding it to the layout and it needs some work too...and I also forgot to add a date but I can do that later...Enjoy!

Yea Mom I did another blog, lol....

What do you think Helen...honest opinions only!!