{"id":797,"date":"2008-05-10T02:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T02:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=797"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:27:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:27:18","slug":"picniking-with-lily-of-the-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=797","title":{"rendered":"Picniking with lily of the valley"},"content":{"rendered":"
You all know that I love to play with my photos… a couple times people have asked what editing tricks I use. I’ve been hesitant to share any techniques because, well… I just play around with Photoshop until I find something that I like. Let’s face it: Photoshop is cost-prohibitive and really-frickin’-complicated, so I don’t see the point in trying to explain the little bit that I’ve figured out.<\/p>\n

At any rate, just today I came across a free site that offers many similar effects without the multiple steps that I normally resort to and even some that I hadn’t been able to figure out on my own with Photoshop. It’s free and painless with <\/span>Picnik<\/span><\/a>. Have a look at what I was able to do in just a couple minutes with this shot of a lily of the valley from my garden; I must have taken 3 dozen pics, none of which I was happy with:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/span><\/a>Auto-fixed for color <\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/span><\/a>Vignetting effect to add focus; an improvement I think.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/span><\/a>Holga-ish; I love this and know it would involve multiple steps in Photoshop. This is my favorite of the lot and perfect for the subject-matter.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/span><\/a>Inverted lomo-ish effect; certainly different!<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/span><\/a>Focal black and white + focal soften; there’s potential in this effect, but this isn’t the right photo for it, I don’t think.<\/p>\n

Have some fun… share the results… get creative with your pics! <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You all know that I love to play with my photos… a couple times people have asked what editing tricks I use. I’ve been hesitant to share any techniques because, well… I just play around with Photoshop until I find something that I like. Let’s face it: Photoshop is cost-prohibitive and really-frickin’-complicated, so I don’t … Continue reading Picniking with lily of the valley<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,2,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}