I took this at halloween, and obviously didn’t take any notice of lighting etc - I just grabbed my camera and quickly took it before we rushed out to a party.

I opened it in PSP, cropped it, cloned out the chair on the left and then applied a red bleach filter. Its printed out brilliantly, and my little boy loves it.

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Caught my little boy in the middle of his homework .. Clever little boy he is!

ooo and looking back at it, I think I even managed to get a bit of DOF too lol

The original shows quite a bit of the room:

so I cropped it:

then cloned out the pen:

then made it mono:

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I was playing with my new camera and I wanted some unposed pics of my little boy. We were laid on the bed chatting, telling stories and jokes .. I told him I was just setting the camera up and wasn’t taking pics - which was obviously a lie lololol

I loved the way they turned out .. he looks so relaxed and happy.

Gorgeous or what!

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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!

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