Monday, May 3, 2010

Different Ways of Editing. Photoshop VS Picknic

So the other day I took a photo that looked like this:



And I had this really cool idea of photoshopping it so Mike and Krystal would actualy be in the movie frames and be there own movie, but that provided to be a little to complicated, and a little to frustrating.  So, I went to Deviant Art and typed "frame stock"

 **** For those of you who don't know, "Stock" is an image someone has created and put on the internet, ususally for the use of otheres, but not all the time so be sure to check and respect their wishes.***

Anyway, I found stock here, all credits given to LillyFly06:

From there, I took the previous photo, Lilly's frame stock, and another image of the sky I once took.  I took Mike and Crystal out of their original photo, and added the sky. After that, they all went into Lilly's lovely frame. Here is the first resut.





So after putting it on Flickr, I decided I thought the photo looked a little dull for what I felt it shoud feel like, and then I discovered that with photos alreay on Flickr, you can Picnik them right then and there, sooo....



And then I decided cool, I like that, but I'm curious what I could've done with actual photoshop. Thus, I took the origianal again, and Vola! Here is the photoshop one.




So all in all, I found that using two programs will give you two different images, even if they started out the same. But you already knew that didn't cha?

With the photoshop one, I had more control over values and tones, and gave a softer focus. The picknic, was everything all at once. There was no way to just dodge the eyes, or sharpen hands, so I didn't care for that program. It pretty much told me what to do, by saying "No you can only do this all together."

The moral? Photoshop is a beast. Picknic is lame.

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