Our lesson this week had so many great tips and tricks! We learned animated GIFs which I had tried once before, selection tools in Photoshop (including one that makes me want to upgrade to CS6), working with curves in Lightroom, and extending the background on a vertical photo so that it fits better on your blog.
As you can see, I really took that last lesson to heart. Here is a vertical image, nicely extended into a somewhat horizontal one, which fits so much more nicely on this page. What you probably can’t see is that I played with the Lightroom curves tool, adding haze and lightening some of the colors, AND I took it into Perfect Effects 4 and added a sky with clouds (with much reduced opacity so that it blended in with the original sky)! Although I haven’t made a new animated gif, I feel like I got my homework DONE!
By the way, this photo is from our trip to San Diego in March.
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Very nicely done Melinda!
A soft lovely image, with pretty blue and aqua colors…love your extra sky too!
So very pretty and so summery. Great job!
Very nice job!
oh my…. this is wonderful… well don my friend…xo
Love these colors! Met in Beyond Beyond!
This is gorgeous, well done! Love the colours and tones. Such a peaceful feel.
You’ve been much more thorough than me in this lesson – I still need to do the curves and selections as well as the gif!
Lovely
Simply wonderful!