Edit Me! | Week 03

Happy Thursday, everyone!

The "Edit Me!" meme is fast becoming my favorite because it allows me to be creative and it allows me to experiment and try new things when it comes to editing pictures.

This week's image is by Courtney of "One Mom's Perfect Imperfections." Editing this picture would be difficult for me because the image was colorful. I didn't want to turn this to sepia or black and white, so I came up with this edit:

Steps I made to this edit:

• Resize the image to 640px on the width side.
• Ran the vintage script to mellow down the colors.
• Ran the National Geographic script using the default setting.
• Ran the Retroactive action and flattened the image.

I decided not to put any textures on the image because I still have to learn how to effectively erase textures on the skin (especially on the girl's face).

Anyway, just for kicks, I am sharing another edit I did for the image:

This is the first time I tried my hands on turning an image to a Pop Art image, and I think I did okay with this. It was time-consuming, yes... but coloring each of the components in the image was like going back to childhood. I truly enjoyed it.

Unlike with the first image, though, I worked on this edit using the original size as I find easier to work with bigger images especially if I have to work on different components. After finishing the pop art, I then changed the width of the image to 640px.

Coming up with this edit, I just followed the tutorial I got to watch from YouTube. I personally would like to thank Malgalin for sharing his brains and his talent. :)

Both edits I loved, but I guess I could say I loved the second picture more as it was my first Pop Art edit. If you still don't know, I used GIMP to edit the image.

*** Jenn ***

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 ***