Before and After |
| "Abstract Digital Art : Digitally Enhanced Photographs : Creative Nature Photography" |
Usually, taking the initial shot is just the beginning for me. I love to play with images... tweak them, invert colors, swirl them, etc. The tool I use for this 'magic' is Adobe Photoshop Elements. It's a wonderful photo editing program, that's chockablock full of special effects called 'filters'. It's relatively inexpensive (under $100) and way less frightening (and expensive) than Photoshop CS. I heartily recommend it... it's like the giant box of Crayola crayons on Christmas morning, but for adults. It lets your creativity come out to play for awhile. Why not let YOUR creativity come out and play for awhile? I guarantee that it won't be wasted time. What you see here are some examples of my creativity coming out to play - before and after shots. Sometimes the 'tweak' is an easy one - perhaps inverting colors, turning what was dark into light. Sometimes, the 'after' image involved hours of painstaking work - for example, the cloning out of all the background distractions in the wire horse sculpture so that you can truly focus on the joyous freedom of movement that you see in the after version of Tomas Fernandez' beautiful work. If you are interested in a tutorial on how I achieved the effects you see on this page, please feel free to email me. I'd be happy to let you in on some of my 'secrets'! |
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