Miss Harper Lee in her favourite scarf perhaps. I keep seeing her in it.
Picture “borrowed” :P from Miss Harper Lee’s Instagram, edited by me.
Miss Harper Lee, who looks very safari here, tagged me to post 20 things about myself on Instagram, but 20 things is a little too long for IG, so this is my reply here:
The simple answer is, I used Photoshop.
Learning to use the software Adobe Photoshop requires another set of instructions so I’m not even going to go into that here. I am instead going to share the concept of how the image is done, and how you could possibly replicate it using the gif apps that you could download from your iTunes or Android apps store.
If you like me, live on this earth, shadows will be cast. It’s the law of nature. But what if you really want a bright white floor or an even coloured floor in your picture?
First thing first, plan to take your picture against a white or plain coloured background. You may remember these recent examples:
The previous how-I-did-it photo editing post dealt with overall brightening of the image, and how I converted the image to high contrast black and white with few shades of grey in between. I got a harder image with a more graphic quality that way.
In this post, we will look at how to brighten or even out specific areas of the photo, rather than the whole photo.
Here’s how I did it on my iPhone for the picture used in Look what I found hiding in the study!
Dull colours in the living room on a cloudy afternoon turned high key black and white image.
An image, no matter how well composed with expressive subjects can fall just that little bit short due to the dull light of that cloudy day, especially when taken indoors. But with the use of a few mobile photo apps, a little bit of time, the mood of this photo has lifted from drab and dull to spare but eye-catching.
Here’s how I did it on my iPhone for the colour to black and white conversion of the recent A third black, two thirds white post.
| see in colour: http://instagram.com/p/dB2rvVlIJG/ | see in colour: http://instagram.com/p/dB2gMZFII_/ |
This was during the haze period, where the air quality was bad so I had Donna in the study with me with the air-conditioning switched on. She no longer spends everyday here as the study is too cluttered.
The future looks bright and no stink-eye cat will get in my way!!
An image, no matter how well composed with expressive subjects can fall just that little bit short due to the dull light of that cloudy day. But with the use of a few mobile photo apps, a little bit of time, the mood of this photo has lifted from drab and dull to bright and dynamic.
Here’s how I did it on my iPhone for the colour version of the recent High Alert Cat post.
I started doing photo a day on Instagram for August Break 2013 somewhere in early August. It was a good motivational exercise for spending time daily playing with photography and apps. Something I never had the leisure or time to even consider before. Now that August is over, I thought I’d do a quick wrap up and move on :P
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