Thursday, July 23, 2009

Precious Moments - Photo enhancement

Hello everyone. I wanted to post this card to show you the difference a photo tutorial can make! I was recently blog hopping and came across this tutorial by Amy Sheffer at Pickled Paper Designs. Her tutorial is all about how to photograph your cards. I have tried so many different ways, and while I have been happy with some of them, none of them stand out like I want them to. Amy's tutorial goes through backdrops, lighting, camera settings and editing. I downloaded the free trial of Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 and am hooked! This is something I think I would love to have.
For this card, I concentrated on editing with PE7. My finished product is at the top of this post.
Here is the before photo of my card.First I straightened out the image so that it wasn't crooked. Next I adjusted the lighting and the sharpness. These few adjustments really brought out the image on the card.
To finish it off I added an inner glow to frame the edges.
I think it made a great difference!

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Great tips Peg!
Your card is very pretty too by the way!
Hugs,
True :)

Wendy Hall said...

OOOOOOOh Peg now you will be hooked!! I took a course in Photoshop CS and the things you can do are just limitless!! You will be hooked!! I am giving you fair warning!!
Beautiful card too!!

Edith said...

Peg, your card is beautiful! I love the colors and the stamp. Also: thanks a lot for posting the link to the tutorial. It would be very helpful to me!

Christine said...

The difference is amazing!

Rachel said...

very sweet cards!!:) your card is beautiful!:):):)
blessing!:)
rachel

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