A great blogging friend, Angie, and I were recently collaborating on a few editing techniques. She's a wonderful photographer, and I love her work (her blog here). Below is the original picture that Angie took of her daughter. How cute is she! I wanted to try to give the photo more of a vintage-y look, which is so popular right now. I threw in a "platinum" edited version just for fun. I edited them both first in Lightroom and then Photoshop Elements. I also used two Florabella textures, as well as one from Jessica Sprague.
Original:
Edit #1:
Edit #2
I can't decide which edited version I like better.
Will you help me out?
Tell me which version you prefer.
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Big Kahuna and I have known each other since we were kids and have been married for almost 15 years. We are passionate about our family, travel and serving God. We love helping people and bringing them hope. We laugh ourselves to tears watching classic episodes of Saturday Night Live and The Office. Summer is our favorite season, and we live for warm evenings playing with the kids on the beach.
Big Surf is 14 years old. He's a voracious reader, focused, and spends hours building things. He is our resident techie and is also learning to play the violin. He loves to spend his free time playing baseball, flag football, or out on the trails by the house building his clubhouse.
Goofy Foot is ten years old. He devours his free reading books like there is no tomorrow. He is also the family comedian. If you see him, ask him to tell you a joke! He is tender-hearted, social and compliant. When he is not outside riding his bike, you'll find him drawing or writing a funny book.
Beach Bunny is three years old. She is our sunshine! She joined our family through the unbelievable gift of adoption. Beach Bunny loves to snuggle with us and carefully takes care of her baby dolls. She is super silly and must say hi to everyone! One word that describes her is "joy".
35 comments:
I like #1 but she's adorable either way. Great work!
Love #2. She is beautiful!
Number 1 for sure.....
Great job! I like he first one the best.
♥ 2 ♥ DEFINITELY!! :)
That's a tough one. I am leaning towards #1.
I have toyed with getting Florabella but have not splurged on myself yet...do you love them?
She is beautiful in all three, but I love the sepia toned one the best.
Blessings,
Amy
Both are gorgeous - the sepia one catches my eye though. I've been hearing a lot about Lightroom lately and throwing around the idea of trying it out, but I'm terrible with Photoshop....
Sepia is my fav, but all our amazing!
Can't go wrong with either, but #1 is eye catching.
OMG! You can't go wrong with any of the three... what an amazingly beautiful little girl and I love her smile and the sparkle in her eyes!
I love the warmth of the Sepia... but it depends on if she is going to frame it... if she is, I always lean towards the true black and white.
Beautiful! I really, really, really want Lightroom... I hate my Photoshop Elements and almost always just edit in Picasa. But, first, I must learn manual.
#1
OK - too cute! I can't decide. I love them both.
Peace and Hugs,
Becca
WOW! WOW! AND DOUBLE WOW!! So cute!! I'm voting for the vintage look, but agree with the others that you really can't go wrong with this cutie!!
WOW- I have got to figure out how to do that! They both look amazing! I like #1, but they both look really good! You are so talented! I can't wait to take those online photo classes and hopefully start learning some of these tricks! :)
I love them both! I found your blog through Kelly's Korner and have just enjoyed looking at your work. I have always loved photography, just haven't had the time to enjoy it with two children keeping me occupied. Thank you for sharing! You've inspired me to do more with it! I like the sepia just because she looks great in brown! I am a brown-eyed girl too.
All are fabulous--what a great subject and photo to begin editing from! I personally like the classic black and white (#2). I feel her eyes really pop in that image and the highlights in her hair are very strong and gorgeous in that one! I'm featuring a photo I edited tomorrow on my blog--check it out. I edited in Photoshop, let me know your thoughts! I also welcome any suggestions you have! :)
# 1 is my favorite, but they are both amazing!!
Wow, girl, you are talented!! I am a huge sucker for Black and Whites, so I vote #2!!! If you ever want to re-do a photo and don't have one, let me know!! I just love you work!!
They are both gorgeous. But I would have to say the sepia. I usually like black and whites better, but this one just pops in sepia. Stunning.
wow, i really like them both..awesome job and what an adorable subject, kj
wow wow wow wow, Those are incredibly gorgeous and that super beautiful model is out of this world. I don't know if I could really choose one but if push came to shove, I guess I'd probably go with number 1!
I like then both but....I'll pick #1
Your good girl!
WOW! What a beautiful little girl and a bigger WOW to what you did with the original photo! I love them both, but I personally tend to lean toward cooler rather than warmer tones so I have to vote for #2.
I had a really tough time deciding but black and white is my all time favorite lately so I have to pick #2 but #1 is beautiful too...see it's still hard for me to decide :) LOL
I say definitely edit #2..Love your blog and your receipes.
Susan
I love #1!!
Just beautiful as always!!!!!
Okay, I can't say enough about how talented you are! I mean I know this is my little sweet, beautiful daughter, but goodness you are amazing at your editing!! I love them both, so I pick #1 and #2..lol! Thanks girl!
I love #1 -It is amazing ! You and your friend are very talented!
Oh you are so talented!! I think I go with #1... GORGEOUS!
that is a tough one. They both are great! The sepia photo draws my attention just a tad more than the b&w but both are just perfect!
Oh I love the sepia one, so cool and unexpected.
#1! Do tell, how did you edit it? :)
sepia... what a great job!
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