Monday, September 7, 2009

Photo Enhanced


Is it worth my time? Do you enhance your photos?

20 inspiring thoughts:

Anonymous said...

First one is better. I crop mine; that's usually all I do to them.
JEB

*~Sarah Lynn~* said...

It can be a bit time consuming, until you get used to it but I usually will just sharpen, brighten & increase the hue a bit to brighten up the color on my pictures.

Grace said...

I love editing my photos, and it really doesn't take that much time. Usually I brighten or darken (depending on the lighting in the photo), add either cross process or cinema, and add a little vignetting. It only takes a minute but makes the photo look SOO much better. I love using Photoscape to do my editing. The best part is it's FREE and has all the good editing tools. Pretty simple to use, too! :)

Grannysaurus said...

I try to take photos that don't need enhancing, but sometimes there is a colour cast caused by reflected light or artificial light, or other faults that I want to fix. Lightening shadows is another one and adding a bit of saturation to washed out phots, but I don't do it often.

Shari said...

I do enhance my photos, but just learning about it. I also crop them so the junk in the picture isn't there. I am learning and do most of my picture editing on picnik.com.

Hevel said...

If it's a good photo I leave it alone. I sometimes play with contrast, saturation, but not often.

Well, I do crop almost every photo.

Suzanne said...

I really like the second photo! If it had a white background, i'd think it was a studio print!!!!

Great job!

I like to edit, but i warn you it can become addicting!

Rachel said...

I like the first one too, it's much clearer. The only time I enhance mine is when they're too dark or too light. I used to crop my photos a lot when I first started scrapbooking, but found myself regretting it later because I wanted more of the surroundings in the photos. That's all part of the memory.

mommytoalot said...

Great pictures both of them.
Sometimes I edit my pictures..but not always

Kristen said...

Depends on my time and the picture. I do edit most of them by cropping and adjusting color. I like to fiddle around with Picnik just for fun.

Taylor said...

I like your enhanced one. Editing pics is so much fun :)

Jamey & Catherine said...

I like the first one too. I do edit sometimes but not often, Usually to lighten or darken.
It can be lots of fn to play around with photos and very addicting. :)
Catherine

Tonya said...

I only edit the ones that I use. I think it takes too much time.

Thank you for the comment on my blog. :o)

hadassahrose said...

I love to enhance photos! And if you do it correctly it is definitely worth it! If you don't have time/don't want to bother with it too much, just hit "auto brightness/contrast" - even this alone makes a big difference.

Peace.

Amy said...

I ALWAYS edit, crop and enhance mine. But I am crazy!! lol
It makes the world of difference to me. Especially portraits.
I like the second picture better. The colors are brighter which is just more appealing to me.

Connie said...

I like the crop tool the best, but sometimes it is just FUN to photoshop! Especially when you have a photo that didn't quite come out right... you can still salvage a nice photo from what would otherwise be a total loss. Sometimes, you can take a photo that is a bit too bright, and rather than trying to enhance it, switch it to black and white or sepia.

jennell said...

I do edit but in your example I like the first one better, Jonny turned a weird color in that eidt.

Kathy C. said...

I don't know how to do any of that. I just shoot and download.

The Johnsons said...

I edit almost all the ones I blog.... Usually I sharpen and up the saturation and darken the edges.... I actually posted a before and after on my blog under photoshop- big difference in my opinion. But, I do not have time to edit them all.. just usually the good ones.

V said...

I like the first one better...

Aside from the odd cropping, I don't think there's much else you need to do with your photos!

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