Friday, August 27, 2010

Before and After

I love when people take great pictures without editing them. They are always raw and honest.
However, I also love when people tinker with their pix to add a little bit of zing!

Since I have a bunch of other stuff, kina important stuff, I needed to do today, of course I've speent the whole morning tinkering with photoshop! Yay for procrastination!


So here are some before pix and what they look like after I funked with them on teh photoshops. I used simple 'Lomo' techniques, and a few tweaks to make the kids eyes pop. This is my first time using any of these tools, well most of them, so these aren't perfect but I had fun making them. Being a self-taught photoshopper, I feel I did pretty good! Enjoy!




  1. It's because I'm the best photoshopper in the world!

  2.  Yeah. Self-taught. 
     No lessons, thank you very much, Pop!

(Oh and don't forget to enter my photo contest! There is much fun and prizes to be had! It's open till Tuesday @ midnight PST. Tell your friends! And thanks to all who have entered so far and linked to it! You all rock! 
PS- You can use archived pix, but I do encourage you to go out and take new pix when you can! :D)






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(I really liked this before pic, but I was in an experimental mood :))

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30 comments:

  1. I was enjoying your post in reader - I love your photo editing skills (I wish I knew half of what you do), and then went to see who added their thumbnail after me on New Friend Friday... it's you! Like at the same time I was reading your post! That's kismet or karma or something kool!

    Have a good friday!

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  2. I am your newest follower from Social Parade! :)

    http://cheeriosandtricycles.blogspot.com

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  3. yeah! self taught, no lessons! a line i use all to frequently!!
    thanks for the great comment and compliment!
    i'm a follower!
    aimee

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  4. Self-taught Photoshoppers unite! I've found that self-teaching is often better, it leaves more room for exploration and creativity. Thanks for stopping by my place, I'm following you now!

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  5. The white flower AFTER is beautiful!

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  6. we just downloaded lightroom today so we can start doing the post processing thing as well. Just another thing that is going to have me sitting at the PC :)

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  7. Thanks for the Follow! Following you back!

    I'm a wannabe punkrockmom! I don't look the part at all - but I totally FEEL the part!

    :-)

    Love your pics - you did a fab job!
    www.brewingdaily.blogspot.com

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  8. hey, I LOVE this pix pix stuffs! Your blog is cool. :)

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  9. awesome photos! i've got some bloggy awards for ya!

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  10. Ooooh, LOVE the white flower and shed pics. I really want photoshop!

    Thanks for stopping by my blog. I am totally loving yours!!!

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  11. Hi there,

    I am your newest follower via Social Parade. Please come by for a visit anytime you get a moment.

    Thanks so much,
    Marie

    The Things We Find Inside

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  12. Isn't photo editing fun. Thanks for sharing and thanks for stopping by my blog.

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  13. I'm completely illiterate when it comes to Photoshop. Seriously. You, however, did a great job! My fave edits are the broken down sugar mama shack, the pin-up tatoo place, and those babies with the gorgeous blue eyes! So glad you stopped by my blog!

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  14. love the photos thank you so much for commenting on my blog hope you get much use out of it :)

    Amanda
    http://patriciaraedesigns.blogspot.com/

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  15. Hey! Thank you for following my blogs! I'm returning the favor! So how are you liking McChord? We are actually from Tacoma/Gig Harbor... but we got sent to Arkansas for 3 years... and now we are stationed at Fairchild AFB in Spokane! Anywho, I love your blog! I'm definitely tuning in for more of your posts! <3 Happy Friday!

    Find me--(Personal account) http://www.Facebook.com/KerriHandley

    && Twitter (both business accounts)
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  16. Whoa. Nice! Wish I was good as you. Teaching myself photoshop too :D

    Thanks for visiting my blog. New follower :D

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  17. Your editing is great, but I think you take a really nice picture SOOC. IF you didn't...your edit would be crap. You can't polish a terd and there are no terds here!

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  18. Thanks for the follow.

    Following you back =)

    http://sokikay.blogspot.com

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  19. Great photos! I have photoshop too but I HATE it. I have not used it in almost a year, it is way to hard for me. How long does it take you to edit a photo? I seriously want to cry every time I try to edit anything on there, lol! Have a great weekend!
    Bonnie :)

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  20. Wow! It's amazing what photoshop can do!! Just the slightest little change to make things POP! Great pics!!

    ps...Thanks for stopping by my blog! I had clicked over to your blog right after linking up at New Friend Friday, but before I could comment my stolen moments were taken away by a crying baby and a cranky toddler! *sigh* :-) I'm looking forward to exploring a little now! :)

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  21. I am USELESS at photoshop...I would love to take a class. Just for making things pop as opposed to really screwing with them. Yours are fantastic! Just the right pop!

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  22. lovin the PS skillz!!

    thx for stopping by my blog & joining the fray. following u now, too!

    <3 MAK
    ICLW #82

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  23. awesome pics! I'm desparate to use Photoshop, but for some reason I seem to be incapable of using it.

    Thanks for visiting my blog - looking forward to following yours!

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  24. I love the pictures. I tinker with my photos. I don’t have photo shop. I use the program to from my camera. Today it isn’t working; my spy ware updated and changed stuff. Fun Love your Blog!

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  25. I FEEL LIKE SUCH A SCHMUCK! I don't check my bucket list posts as often as I do my personal blog and I just now saw you gave me an award! It's so funny because I ACTUALLY READ that post when you wrote it but I guess I just skipped over my own blog! HA!

    Anyways, thank you so very kindly! I like the before/after pic of that green sink looking thing! :)

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  26. The pictures came out beautiful. Great job. My poor husbands has to sit and help me with Photoshop- I think it drives him crazy.He knows by the way I call for him and is like "oh great another project"...

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  27. Thanks for the follow, I will follow right back!

    I wish I had some kind of photo editing software.....and a nice camera. I love pics especially of babies and their eyes like the ones you have posted.

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  28. Thank you for your message :) I am glad a few can still benefit from my advice regarding Twitter! I was afraid that post would be for nothing, however, all I'm looking for in each of my posts is to help one!

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  29. Thanx for all of the kind comments for my pictures! You guys rock! :D

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