Touch Up Tuesday - Head Swap!

Did you notice that I didn't schedule today's post again? :-P... Oh well. I almost decided to say "screw it" to "Touch Up Tuesday" and complain write about something else, but instead, I'll show my latest... well, touch up. An example of the infamous head-swap. Now, I don't have the latest and greatest photo editing software, so I can't just click and fix like on the TV commercials (I say this so you know I had to work at it, lol) but I still get pretty good results. I can't link this one this week though, because I didn't take these photos... I just fixed them for my Aunt :)

Anyway, she had these two shots:

Obviously, the ideal shot is where EVERYONE is looking at the camera... so with the magic of the computer (a little copy/paste, a little eraser tool, a little fine tuning of levels) and we have....

Ta da!! Anyone else have the chance to swap some heads recently? heeheehee.

Oh, and please, attempt to comment on here - even just to say hi... if you can't, shoot me an e-mail at 

betsy @ somethingbetsy.com

I've gotten 2 remarks from people that they can't comment, and am trying to figure out what's up. I changed a setting today, so we'll see if that helps :)

-Betsy

Touch Up Tuesday

 I SHOULD have gone outside today to take some pictures of spring or something, and then edited them for Touch Up Tuesday... but... I didn't. So here's a photo I enjoy from our last trip to the forest... simple photo, simple edit.

Linking up with Paper Heart Camera!

-Betsy

Touch Up Tuesday

My goodness! It's Tuesday!

Last Tuesday we went to see the Cherry Blossoms in DC...
this was my camera shot:

And my edited shot!

What do you think?
Did anyone else play in a "Touch Up Tuesday" linky party this week?
How about just a "touch up" blog post any old time in the past week?
Tell me about it!

-Betsy

P.S. Don't forget to enter photos in the Monday Monday drawing this week!!

P.P.S. totally forgot to link this! Eh, what's one day late? :-P

Touch Up Tuesday - Dandelion

I'm really enjoying all the little bits of color popping up in the yard!! I liked little curly cues, but it just didn't look right in color. So now it's Black and White :-P. With a little tweaking of the levels (which I can't entirely remember... sorry :-P)

SOOC (Straight Out Of Camera)

Now :-P

Linking up with Paper Heart Camera Today!

 

-Betsy

Touch Up Tuesday - Daffodils!

So I've been staring at this yellow mass that just APPEARED in my yard this week, and hadn't gone over to investigate until the other day... it's Daffodils!  It's too early for Daffodils! Well, apparently not here... so I took some shots, and this is my favorite "Touch Up" one :)

SOOC (Straight Out of Camera)

Edited with Pure Photoshop Action's Summer Color (found them on Facebook!)

 I was amazed how nicely it came out - I'd never used actions before. The only thing I changed from their action was get rid of "Soften" cause I like my photos really crisp :-P

And that's it! Linking up with Paper Heart Camera Today!

-Betsy

Touch Up Tuesday!

So as I mentioned here and explain here it's time for Touch Up Tuesday! This past weekend I got to go to my cuz's hockey game!!  I had a great time with my schnazzy new Nikon D7000 and it's super-high ISO settings, and got a ton of cool shots... but this one, although great out of the camera, begged to be "messed with". It was a simple "messed with" - generally I use Picassa, except when I have to use Photoshop. This was done entirely in Picassa.

Step 1: I'm feeling Lucky fix.
Step 2: Focal Black and white - I sharpened it all the way, but you can't really tell because there wasn't much color in the areas around the boys anyway.

Simple, and I like it!

I'm linking up with Paper Heart Camera today... feel free to join me!

-Betsy

Wordless Wednesdays/Touch-Up Tuesdays... delayed :-P

I've seen on a couple blogs I've begun stalking this "Wordless Wednesdays" comment. I like it. I've also seen "Touch Up Tuesdays"  from and then, she {snapped}... and decided I should try and get in on both. Wordless Wednesdays/Touch-Up-Tuesdays. But we all know how bad I am at NOT talking/typing... so I'll do my BEST to keep it short!

Straight Out Of Camera (SOOC)

Touched Up

Removed Color Cast, fixed up highlights, made multiple layers, converted one to B&W Newspaper, then used the eraser tool at 100% to "find" the color on strawberries, and 50% on the peanut butter and then saturation brush on the strawberry tips to make them pop. Ta da! (AND it was yummy!)

-Betsy

Possibly More Impressive...

Only one more photo to fix-up!  Another one bites the dust!! I had saved this one for later in the process because of BIG spot in the middle.

Original!

Fixed up!!

 Anyone out there with restoration stories?  

This one had a lot of copy, paste, flip layer horizontal and eraser work.

-Betsy

Editing

Now, I'm new to this restoration thing, but this is what I've been working on today... and I think I did a pretty good job :)

Before

 

 ( Not really seen: spiderwebs of blue lines caused by cracks in the emulsion.)

After

How'd I do it? I'm not even sure of all the steps anymore, but a LOT of healing brush, clone tool, burn tool, levels adjustment, desaturation of spots, sharpen brush, paint brush, decreased opacity settings...  And a few hours.

 I'm rather happy of how well this 16 year old slide came out!

-Betsy