I want to thank all of you for your kind words welcoming me home from my summer of traveling. While I'm very happy to be home (picture me drinking straight from the tap and eating peaches and plums with joy), it has taken me a bit to adjust to getting back into work, getting back into a new routine, and getting the house organized after a wild and crazy spring - okay and let's face it - getting back into cooking and cleaning because I didn't do that for the seven weeks I was away!
I love looking back at the photos I took in Bangladesh and India and I have spent countless hours making a photo book out of them. I've also been playing around with some of my favourite photos using Picnik, a free on-line photo-editing website which is a source of endless fun for me. I should say that a portion of the site is free and that is all I use because I'm cheap like that, but there are other wonderful features if you are willing to pay. In case you missed my earlier posts about the virtues of Picnik, you can read them here and here - and yes - even here.
Picnik has so many different ways to edit and apply effects that I love to try different combinations. What I do with each photo isn't always exactly the same, but in general I make the following edits:
What do you think? I'm in love with the last one and am thinking of printing it to put up in our family room. Anyone else tried on-line photo-editing programs like Picnik?
I love looking back at the photos I took in Bangladesh and India and I have spent countless hours making a photo book out of them. I've also been playing around with some of my favourite photos using Picnik, a free on-line photo-editing website which is a source of endless fun for me. I should say that a portion of the site is free and that is all I use because I'm cheap like that, but there are other wonderful features if you are willing to pay. In case you missed my earlier posts about the virtues of Picnik, you can read them here and here - and yes - even here.
Picnik has so many different ways to edit and apply effects that I love to try different combinations. What I do with each photo isn't always exactly the same, but in general I make the following edits:
- use auto-correct to do the initial adjustment
- lighten the exposure
- bump up the colour a few notches
- straighten the photo (my eyes must be crooked as so many of my photos are slanted - thank heaven for Picnik to fix them up)
And the following effects are my favourites. I have listed them in descending order from the one I like and use the most, to others that I try. I also sometimes do more than one effect on a single photo:
- Cinescope (you can uncheck the box so you don't have the letterbox effect with the black lines top and bottom)
- Cross-process (you can use the slide to decrease the amount of effect you want to apply to the photo)
- 1960's (you can uncheck the box so you don't have rounded corners)
- HDR-ish (I definitely move the slide over to minimize the effect of this one)
- Lomo-ish (again I move the slide over to minimize this one as well)
Have a look at the changes I made to my photos below. In each case the first photo is the original photo and the second shows the changes I made using Picnik.
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| PHOTO #1 ORIGINAL |
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| PHOTO #1 EDITED USING PICNIK |
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| PHOTO #2 ORIGINAL |
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| PHOTO #2 EDITED USING PICNIK |
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| PHOTO #3 ORIGINAL |
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| PHOTO #3 EDITED USING PICNIK |
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| PHOTO #4 ORIGINAL |
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| PHOTO #4 EDITED USING PICNIK |
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| PHOTO #5 ORIGINAL |
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| PHOTO #5 EDITED USING PICNIK |
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