In the first close up with the black arrow you can see the the shot is a very low resolution. Removing a lot of the digitization in the photo will help to smooth it out and make it a clearer crisper photo. Can this be done? YES! The next arrow photo after the first shows how a lot of the digitization was removed and the digitized skin tones have been smoothed out as well. I am not going to go into how I actually did this because that is not the point. We are talking about turning good photos into great photos remember? The third photo with the black arrow shows the bridesmaids being removed. Off with her head! We are now left with the photo with the bridesmaids removed. There was some additional altering done here because we needed to adjust the coloration of the veil to remove the blue dress from behind it as well as replace walls under the Bridesmaids legs in the background and a little teeth whitening. Then the final touch; a color correction to remove the grey overcast from the photo bringing back the original sunny day and the whiteness of the brides dress. Now we don't have just a good photo anymore but a great photo of just the bride and groom and suitable to frame now don't you think? Below we have the before and after final photos for closer inspection. You can see how there is now more detail in the photo on the right. The definition in the pocking of the rocks down to the individual blades of grass can be seen better. The expressions in the wedding couples faces are more enhanced and that is the most important part. This editing can be done to almost any photo including vintage photos. The best part is that though they are fun to do, its' even more fun making someone happy. Have any photos you would like to get retouched? Or a family ex that needs to be removed from a photo? Though it may be sad it happens and why not try to save a "good" photo and make it GREAT. All of this is possible. If you would like to have this done just contact me through the contact page. We are happy to help. Ok now to cover trying to take GREAT photos so you don't have to go through the above. While traditional wedding photos are special and important, fun & candid shots can make anyone’s photos stand out from the crowd and make it look like it was done by a professional. So, put a little creativity in your wedding photos and make that special day even more memorable. How do you do that? Well read on! In honor of the wedding season here are 24 ideas you shouldn't pass up.
Rule of thumb? If you think you are going too far there is no such thing. Its' your wedding. You can always blame your behavior on the open bar and the photographer. Don't let priority get in the way of art and a great wedding photo. For those of you who don't know much about what I do. I do lots of things! One of the things I do is create a lot of banners/headers for blogs and web sites, twitter facebook, Etsy. Banners usually go to the top of your page which is why it is called a "Header". Today I was working on the above banner for a customer. His previous banner which I will post below needed some help and he hired me to fix it. His instructions were that he wanted it to look dark misty/ghostly, have his title and the caption about sending in your photos. He said he had no set image in his mind. GREAT! Those are my favorite kind. I love when I get the freedom to do a banner using my own ideas. Direction is great and needed because I don't do free marketing developing a banner. So with his idea of it being "dark and misty" I decided it would be really cool to focus on a energy wisp that is commonly seen in ghost photos. Sometimes they are blue, white or red. I went with the blue and decided to have the ball leave a trail behind it as it moves having spelled out the title in a neon appearing text. I then brought the ball around the edge from the right and into the scared girls face. The ball is just a circle made up of several other circles. Each circle contains a different color of blue. I then used a smudge tool and smudged it in a circular motion creating movement and a 3 Dimensional look. I then took a photo of a man and changed the opacity until it was nearly transparent and put it into the center of the ball. This give the appearance of a specter in the ball. There is a little more to it then that but it gives you the general gist of it. I then reflected the blue ball into the girls eyes so it appears as though she is looking at it terrified. To make the misty trail, it is made up of airbrushing a transparent white and then blue on top across the area I wanted. Then I come back in with a smudge tool and start pushing it around to give it a wispy movement. The idea is to kind of make it look sort of like cigarette smoke that curls and twists. But not too much. Again I was trying to achieve a mist not smoke. Here is what the original banner looked like.
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