Edit Me! | Week 02

Welcome to the second week of Edit Me! The image was posted last night (my time), but it was just this morning that I was able to work on the edit.

The SOOC shot was provided by Misty of "Through a Photographer's Eyes." She is also this week's guest judge.

For this image, I was able to do two edits:

As soon as I saw the image, I thought it was like a painting. It also looked a bit vintage-y, so with that I came up with this steps:

• Applied the Vintage Effect action.
• A pass of the Brauer's Warm script set to 25%.
• Applied the Canvas Texture set to multiply at 75%.
• Applied Kim Klassen's Yesteryear texture set to overlay at 50%.

I was actually quite happy with this one, but I thought the canvas texture was quite too strong. I actually was already writing this post when I decided to play with the image again and I came out with this:

This one, I guess is more on the vintage side. This was a very drastic edit because I edited out the houses behind. With this one, I wanted to concentrate more on the wagon. Since it was at the center of the image, I decided to take out the houses to make the image more balanced, since it had more space under.

Steps I made:

• Using the clone tool, I edited out the houses and the itty bitty details - like the electric posts, and the brown things on the lower left side of the image.
• Applied the Vintage Effect action.
• A pass of Brauer's Warm script set to 25%.
• Applied Kim Klassen's Yesteryear texture set to Multiply at 100%.
• Applied Kim Klassen's Sweettart texture set to Soft Light at 75%, just to give it a pinkish tone, since most vintage effect pictures tend to look a bit pinkish.
• Unsharp mask set to 0.75.
• Burn set to Shadow with range of 10.0 and opacity of 100%.

As always, both images were edited using GIMP. I do hope me taking out the houses was okay, I was a bit hesitant in doing that, but I still went with it.

*** Jenn ***

Edit Me! | Week 01

When I went online this morning, I saw Ashley Sisk's take on this meme, and I did find it interesting, but I am still new with the post-processing world, so I was a bit hesitant to join, even if I want to. When my friend Nathalie joined, too, I realized, I shouldn't put on walls in front of me. Like what I said when I commented on her post, "All of us had to start somewhere," so here I am.. joining as well.


The original author of the meme provided the image to be edited, and as soon as I saw it, I knew editing this picture would be difficult because it was already a a beautiful image to begin with, and I don't know if my edit will give justice to the image.

Using GIMP, I came up with this edit. The steps:

• Resized the image to 640x427 pixels, with resolution of 300.
• Gave it a pass of Cooling - Wratten 82 set to 50%, to make the coconut greener and the sky a bit bluer.
• Burn, set to shadow range at 30%
• Added the "Old Paper" texture set to normal at 50%.
• Another pass of the burn filter, still set to shadow range, but with the opacity of 50%.
• To highlight the brown tone of the texture, I also gave it a pass of Brauer's Warm filter set to 25%.
• Finally, added my name stamp using the Jane Austen font.

I am not sure if my edit was good enough, but I hope it is. :)

*** Jenn ***