Friday, May 17, 2013

Photoshop Friday

One of the best uses for photoshop is to make a bad photo look artistic.  Since I seem to take a lot of blurry photos, this comes in real handy.

For instance, here was an oriole perched on the feeder, but it just wasn't a sharp photo.  And that tree behind it is too distracting.



But voila!  First I sharpened the image to try to bring in as much clarity as possible, knowing it would over sharpen it.  Not to worry!  I used the selection tool to capture all the background and then put the clone tool to work to capture the muted greens.  Lastly, I used an artistic filter to posterize the edges and it looks just fine.



Long Live the Queen of Crummy Photos

4 comments:

  1. You are the Queen of Photoshop Friday!

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  2. Good job!! I think it's amazing how we can fix bad photos now. I get a lot of blurry ones too but I can save quite a few with PS. I would love to have some of your Orioles at my feeder. You have a wonderful day. Hugs, Edna B.

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  3. I'm doing a little catching up today. I had a particularly unpleasant doctors appointment this week which turned out to be good because all is clear, but not something I would wish to go through again ... and if I have my way, I won't! Meanwhile I fell behind in my reading and commenting so here I am to comment on your blog posts. First, I love your covers for your little shelf and toaster oven. You are truly talented in many ways and clever in the ways that you use your talents. I love your confused Oriele, though he is just looking for nector ... My oriele feeder has nector in it ... yours doesn't? I have humming birds and Orieles on both of their feeders all of the time ... they aren't confused, we are. We assume it makes a difference to them if they eat from an orange or a red feeder ... it doesn't. I also like your PS doctored Oriele picture ... I have tried many time to "sharpen" my pictures and just simply can't see a difference in the sharpened vs the unsharpen version. So, like you, I move into "artistic" mode and make it look like I intended for it to be the way it is :) Anyway, it looks great so maybe it is better that way :)

    So you have a tablet? How have you figured out how to use it. Mine doesn't seem to have any instructions with it ... or at least anything I can make sense of. I am just playing with it and seeing what I can figure out. If you have any clues ... I am all ears. My Izzi is ringing the bell to go out and I need to go out and do some planting, so I will get back to you Queen of All Encompassing Talents ... Soon I hope ...

    Andrea @ From The Sol

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