SCS Photo Challenge #28 - Fill The Frame

To help me come up with photo ideas. . De of Bella Luna Photo Inspirations and I decided to play along in the weekly SCS Photo Challenges. For this week, we have a few challenges we decided to tackle. The first challenge that I decided to work is the SCS Photo Challenge #28 - Fill the Frame. The challenge is to take photos that fill up the photo frame with little white areas or space around the image.

I decided to stop by the wineries near wear I live and take pictures of grapes. LOL! Unfortunately, the lighting was terrible and I could not take nicely colored sharp photos. They sort of turned out softly focused for some reason. Maybe I'm just very critical of my photos because I want my photos to look like the "pros". Ugggh! Oh gawd . . .how I wish I was a good photographer but I have to remember that many of the spectacular photos were taken with expensive lenses and sometimes a bit of Photoshop.

I decided to add a bit of color by adjusting the hue on Photoshop. I also added the original unedited version so you can see each "Photoshoped" photos in their original state. It was fun adding the purple color to the photos.

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Perspective Photo through cropping

Just playing with cropping my photos. I wanted to give the landscape below the illusion that it's a real bridge but I don't think I achieved that effect. The bridge is acutally a little bridge at the top of our backyard waterfall.

Do you see the bridge in the background? That's how little it is by comparison to the waterfall so in realty the bridge measures less than 5 feet in length and 2 feet high. With this photo. . .it actually gives the bridge a smaller appearance. In person it's actually looks larger than in the photo but at the angle I took the photo. . .the bridge looks farther away than it does in person.

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Desaturated Photo

Just playing around with more photos. With this photo, all I did was desaturate the photo. Here's is a quick tutorial:

Click on "Layer" at the menu
Click on "New Adjust Layer"
Click on "Hue/Saturation"
Click on the saturation bar and moved it to the left to reduce the amount of color to the photo.

I reduced the color but not all of it. As you can see the shirt still has some blue color to it and the background is slightly green.

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Desaturation and Fade Desaturation Tutorial

I really love the look of vintage photos with a touch of color. Here is an easy way to create this effect on Photoshop:

• Rather than reducing the saturation using the percentage scale under the saturation option, click on "image".
• Click on "adjustments".
• Click on "desaturate". This completely desaturates (remove all color) your image at 100%.
• Click on "edit".
• Click on "fade desaturate". Using the scale, reduce the desaturation and add color. You also have additional options on the type of fade desaturation you want.by clicking on the "mode" drop menu.
• With my photo, I used "normal" mode and fade desaturated at 50%.

The photo was taken in auto-focus and the portrait setting under direct sunlight.

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Lens Flare and Changing the Color of Parts of Your Photo Tutorial

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I decided to look for a tutorial online and see if I can create something cool from something ordinary. I found a tutorial that provides steps on how to give clouds a vintage look and add a flare lens to the photo. Rather than recreating the tutorial, I decided to just link the tutorial because it's a great tutorial for a newbie like me.

Although my photo is not a picture of a cloud, I decided to see if I can use the tutorial on a photo with running water. The photo is of our waterfall in our backyard that I took a close up photo of. With this tutorial, you can change the color of select areas of your photo as well as add a lens flare (the circular bright light).

I love how it turned out. The modified version reminds me of some sci-fi sort of scene. . .like a different planet. LOL! What do you think? Anyway, try the tutorial out and see what you can come up with!!

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Photoshop - Changing Specific Colors of Your Photos

I was playing around with the RGB feature of Photoshop and changed part of the color of my photo.

As I learn to use Photoshop, it's made me more aware of the fact that many photos that you see may not be what they really are. . .they are edited.

To some degree, I think programs that are so good when it comes to editing, such as Photoshop, have some negative aspect to it. You no longer can take photos at face value. . .now a days many photos are edited to the point you don't know what photos are real or Photoshopped.

Anyway, here is the photo edited. I changed the orange flower to a peach flower. I like the flowers in peach.

The process of changing the color of the flower is very easy. If I have the time today, I'll create a tutorial to show you how to do it.

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Photoshop Tutorial - Stitching Photos Together Using Photo Merge

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Hi Everyone! Today I was looking for a tutorial on how to merge or "stitch" photos together but I actually wanted to do something more advanced. I wanted to actually "blend" the photos together. As I was looking for the tutorial, I found a "basic" tutorial on how to stitch photos together so it'll be one single piece or single photo. My daughter had given me photos from her camera so I could create scrapbook layouts with them and I wanted to create a layout with 3 photos side by side without having to print them and cut them individually.

Well. . .this basic Photoshop tutorial uses the "automerge" feature to stitch photos together!! I love it because it's so dang simple.

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Levitating! Action Shot and Blurred Background Editing

I was playing with my the "action" feature on my camera. I had my daughter jump up and down while the camera took a sequence of shots. I chose this photo to post because it looks like she is levitating in the air. I thought it was such a cool shot. The background in the original photo was actually sharply focused but I didn't like that it didn't really show her with her body floating. I blurred the background using the lasso technique. When I have the time, I'll post the tutorial. . .maybe sometime this week! Although this shot was taken with my daughter actually up in the air, with Photoshop you could probably have a photo like this without the person actually up in the air when the original shot was taken. Now a days, you don't know what shots are actually real or edited.

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Reduced Saturation

To create this "partial black and white with a touch of color" image, all I did was reduce the saturation but not completely. By doing this, I was able to add a little color to the background. I also changed the hue to "red" as opposed to its original yellow hue. This photo was taken originally in color.

I created a scrapbook layout with this image. I should have changed the hue to blue but I didn't think about until after I had created the layout.

The photo was taken at a restaurant at the winery that we ate at during the Memorial Day weekend. My son was sitting down looking distant after his father had talked to him about his plans for the future after graduating from high school this year.

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Layering Photos on Photoshop

Considering this is my first time to layer images and text, as well as blending the images, I think it came out really nicely. When I have the time . . .maybe this weekend, I'll post the tutorial on how I did this on Photoshop.

This is a photo of my daughter during the Memorial Day weekend. . .we visited the winery and the photos were taken while we were there. The winery had a lot of pretty landscaping that I felt it was a great opportunity to take the photos!!

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