Before and After
Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 06:14AM The Theme at Stacy's today is Before and After. So I took it literally today and will show a picture before it was edited and after is was edited. I posted this picture a few days ago of Natalya finally learning how to ride her bike with no training wheels. Go, girl!
This is the before. Still a cute face but she was a little far away and we have the looney dog in the way. Rockey just has to be a part of everything. Oh, she barks at bicycles. So when Natalya rides down the driveway, Rockey chases her and barks. Looney.
And this would be the after. Cropped of course, to bring her closer. Then I took out the looney dog. You would never know, huh? When I cropped it it took most of Rockey out but there was still her back and tail in the picture. I did that with the patch tool (nice tutorial, the dude is trying way to hard to be funny so I apologize in advance), clone stamp tool, and spot healer. Just a little bit of each. I added, viewed, if I didn't like it, I backed up and tried again. Then I do my usual, curves, contrast, hue/saturation, sharpen. Not necessarily in that order. If you try the patch too or clone tool, let me know. I'd love to see what you've done. The best way to learn is to play. It won't hurt the picture to mess around as long as you don't save it.
Ok, Happy Love Thursday. Thursdays are always a busy and long day here. Oh, I get to take some pictures today. Of someone other than my own children. Yay. Wish me luck.
Reader Comments (16)
Great job with this one. Perfect shot.
I am very impressed. I decided not to even buy into this Theme as it is too far out of my skill range. The 'after' photo here is excellent and greatly enhanced by the changes you have made. What a difference. Well done.
Wow! I would've never guessed that the photos was cropped & 'shopped. Thanks for the tutorial links. I should probably learn how to do these things...I like that the cropped version has less distracting elements, and that you can see Natalya's beaming face better.
Great job, Melody. I would have never known! I tend to use all of them, too, when I need to take something out of a photo. They all do things a little differently. Good luck (like you need it!) on the photo shoot today. Fun!
wow! i would never have known there had been a looney dog in the photo -- nice work! and your daughter looks so proud of herself :).
Love the smile on your daughter's face!! Great job on the photo!!
OH wow, I gotta go watch that - you did a great job, had I not seen the before I never would have guessed! I LOVE the capture!
who would have thought! it's okay... they still love you Rockey! :) shot superb either way... of course!
i've promised myself one of these days to really grasp... take time to learn Photoshop!
Perfect! It made a great difference in the shot!
Good luck with the other photo shoot - hope we get to see the results!
Love it. Just watched the tutorials. You're right about that first one ! Sheesh !! He needs medication !! :)
Excellent job on the editing! I love the patch tool, but I would have probably done horrible with that section of the wheel. You've made it look flawless!
wow that is just awesome. i probably would have thrown that one out but you made it fantastic.
I dont know how you do it, you make all your pictures look incredible. You are impressive.
I'm so behind on commenting! This looks cool...Love the crop and the color pop!
Great shots! She is getting to be such a big girl - look at her go on that bike!
Awesome job! I love the little bit of cropping and the way you made those yellows just pop out. Congrats for riding without training wheels too! I'm still trying to get my almost 3 year old to peddle right now. ;)