Before & After

•SOOC




↑ Boring, huh?


•After




↑ Much better, in my opinion!

SOOC Sunday ~ Tiny Toesies

SOOC



Ok, so ↑that photo↑ definitely falls under the "SUCKY STRAIT OUT OF CAMERA" category. I was just trying to get a quick shot of my daughter's little foot as she napped on the couch during a visit to my parents' today. I was finally able to paint her little toe nails for the first time earlier today and wanted to grab a photo so the memory would always stay alive. But, again, that shot just plain ol' stinks *lol*


EDIT



Here's how I ended up editing it. I wanted it to look kinda 'oldish.' I like the little bit of noise that is in the photo. Sometimes grain is my friend :) Anyway. I think I'll edit it a little bit more before I print it. I love textures so I'll probably push the old feeling.

Eggies

That's what our three year old calls them - eggies :)



Green: egg my husband made for me
Multi: egg I made for our family
Blue: egg I made for my husband from our two kids

Photo is SOOC (straight out of camera); just resized.

SOOC Before + Fully Edited After

Before {SOOC} & After {EDITED}

I was taking some photos of my baby girl this morning while she was laying on the bed smiling at the curtains (her new best friend!). I pulled the curtains back and raised the blinds because the bed is right beside the window, so this let some really awesome natural light in. Natural light is beautiful and helps to create some great catch lights in eyes!

Anyway.. I'm sitting here editing some photos while my kiddos are asleep and wanted to share a before and after of one of them. Seeing as how I don't share photos of my family on the internet, I cropped the top part of her out. You can still get the general idea of how the editing went though. I wish you could see how pretty her eyes turned out in the photo; maybe another day, I can crop just her eyes...

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BEFORE {SOOC}




AFTER {EDITED}




ANIMATION {SWITCHES BACK AND FORTH EVERY TWO SECONDS}



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From SOOC to Fully Edited

I'm really embarrassed to show this photo SOOC!! They're usually not this blah and ugly. I snapped it out the car window today (well, technically yesterday... I just havent been to bed and it's a new day) as we were driving by, and didnt have the time to adjust the settings in manual mode. Had I tried, I would have missed the opportunity to even get the photo at all. So, ya take what you can get.... riiiiiight?!!

I did not like this photo at all when I uploaded them onto my computer tonight. It just looked so... well, like I said before, blah and ugly! I could have scrapped the photo and not thought twice about it. But, I didnt! I thought it had some potential --just needed a little lovin' to make it look alright!


^Here is the SOOC;
only resized to 600px on the long side to share here.



^Here it is having only been edited in ACR;
& resized to 600px on the long side to share on here.



^Here is the photo with my normal editing done to it.
Some of the steps:
•Cropped;
resized to 600px on the long side.
•Cloned out the house with the red roof.
•Original layer duplicated;
soft light on top layer,
lower opacity,
merge.
•Sponged the whole photo on saturate to bring out the colors.
•Messed with the hue/sat to pop the colors a little bit more.
•Sky was too light for my liking, so I burned it.
•Used the sponge/burn/dodge tools throughout photo;
helped to add extra highlights and shadows where I wanted.
•Defogged and sharpened the image.



^Here is the final editing I did to the image.
Sometimes, I like to do extra editing on images to just spruce them up a bit more. This was one of those photos that I thought would benefit from doing so.
Some of my steps (using the last image):
•I blurred the sky to give it a more soft appearance.
•I duplicated the image twice;
high pass sharpen, set to overlay, lowered opacity,
duplicated, set to linear light, lowered opacity,
merged.
•Duplicated layer;
added gaussian blur,
set to overlay,
duplicated layer,
set to soft light,
lowered opacity,
merged.
•Sharpened.