I did the high key tutorial plus the burning thing again on the carnation DOF picture. I can’t decide whether or not it goes with the photograph or whether I like it.

Stumble it!

I have seen photographs with this effect applied to them, but didn’t know what it was called, or how to do it lol.

I wanted an effect on a photograph I had taken, so just applied a B&W grainy filter/plugin and then messed about with the brighness and contrast in photoshop and came up with this:

I then decided to have a nose about in GoSnap’s tutorial section, and found a High Key tutorial - OMG it is fantastic. I applied the effect to the same photograph I had used above and came out with this:

I posted the result into my gallery and got some advice from Snake saying that maybe the eyes could be brought out a bit more by using the burn tool, and he very kindly wrote me a tutorial on how to do it. Here is the final result:

I have to say, I absolutely love it - thank you to everyone @ GoSnap!

Stumble it!

Another project on the GoSnap forum was DOF.

Before I joined that forum I vaguely knew what DOF was, but had no idea how to get it intentionally. I had taken photographs in the past and occasionally had been lucky and accidentally got DOF, but now I want to learn how to do it when I want it to happen.

I did some reading up, and decided to take the plunge with some Carnation’s. I have to admit, that I got some really bad shots before I managed to get this one, as I am still unsure about how the settings work properly, but I am getting the hang of it.

I know that the bud to the left of the photograph shouldn’t really be in focus, but the rest of it was done intentionally, without the use of the Auto setting on my camera. I used aperture priority, and changed the settings to get what I needed.

I posted it in the projects forum and SteveDM suggested I up the contrast and boost the curves .. hmmmm .. what are bloody curves I thought to myself lol
Again I went to the tutorials part to see if there was anything in there, and yes there was a tutorial on how to correct/boost your curves.
I followed the tutorial but, I wasn’t sure what curves where and what was supposed to be changing lolol
This is the result of doing it in photoshop, as per the tutorial:

I then opened it up in PSP and had a go at their curve settings. I grasped the basic drift of what PS was doing, and applied it in PSP and got this:

I have to admit I think the colours are a lot better in this photograph, and if I am honest, they are more true to the real flowers. I had originally taken the photograph late at night, in a room with just the normal ceiling light on, and thats obviously affected the colours.

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One of the projects over at GoSnap was macro - so I attempted my first ever macro shot using my mobile phone buttons, as suggested in the write up!

Unfortunately it hasn’t turned out well lol. I need more DOF on the other buttons, and the colour doesn’t seem right, but I wanted to post it as it was before I did any alterations.

This is the same picture but with the colour altered, and a spot of fake DOF lol:

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I have used PSP for about 6 - 7 years, but not for photograph editing. I used it for taggin & scrapping. I have now started to use photoshop, after looking at some tutorials - and hope to pick it up some time soon lol

Stumble it!