You Rock!

Posted by Laurie (Lincoln, United States) on 6 December 2007 in Abstract & Conceptual.

Since I've been on Aminus3, I've seen so many ways that people post-process their pics and I find that when I ask, people are very generous with sharing their expertise with me.

Thanks to everyone who has enlightened my knowledge about photography and photo editing!

Here's a special shout out to Anna Marie over at http://womanwithacamera.aminus3.com/ for instructing me on how to achieve this effect! Thank you!

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Comments (14)

Gary from Cochise County, United States

Nice rich yellow.

6 Dec 2007 6:00am

@Gary: Thanks Gary! =-)

martie from Okinawa, Japan

This is a wonderful shot! So rich and sharp - I think I should be able to touch those petals.

6 Dec 2007 7:36am

@martie: Thanks for comment, martie! I'm glad you like it! =-)

Craiger from Vacaville, California, United States

Yes, very rich indeed!

6 Dec 2007 8:26am

@Craiger: Thanks Craiger! =-)

badala from Leiria, Portugal

This is a great photo. Be very proud of this one.

6 Dec 2007 9:00am

@badala: Thanks for kind words, badala! =-)

Eleftheria, 9 years old, from Athens, Greece

I love yellow flowers, all flowers :))

6 Dec 2007 12:08pm

@Eleftheria, 9 years old,: Thanks, Elefthria! =-)

Marco from Verbania, Italy

very nice...great colors...well done...

6 Dec 2007 6:08pm

@Marco: Thank you, Marco! =-)

Laurent from Lyon, France

Really nice colors. A great picture, I wish you will show us more of the kind. I wish also that one day I will be able to make one like that
(& thanks to anna Marie for the effect)

6 Dec 2007 6:42pm

@Laurent: Thanks for the comment, Lyon! Yeah, I'm going to have to keep my eyes open to find other things that this effect will work well with! =-)

amy from Rocky Mountain House, Canada

Beautifully done Laurie!! Excellent results!

6 Dec 2007 7:43pm

@amy: thanks amy! =-)

Ina from Krugersdorp, South Africa

Well done!

6 Dec 2007 8:15pm

@Ina: thanks Ina! =-)

Eric from Riverside, United States

i really like the colors on this.. nice shot!

6 Dec 2007 10:17pm

@Eric: Thanks Eric! =-)

Michael Keith from Toccoa, United States

Very well done. The black background really brings the color and detail of the flower out.

6 Dec 2007 10:59pm

@Michael Keith: Thanks Michael! Yeah, I've seen this effect done Anna Marie's site and other places on Am3 and it just makes that color "pop"! Now, I wish I had taken more nature pics. I have to wait until Spring to take more. Thanks for comment and for the visit! =-)

Anna Marie from Menomonee Falls, United States

great job Laurie! I like it. You can do amazing things with Picasa if you just fool around with it. :) Thank you for the nice comment!

7 Dec 2007 3:13am

@Anna Marie: Thanks Anna Maria! I agree, I'm still exploring my photoediting program, it's cool to discover the new things I can do! Again, thanks for showing me the way! =-)

Frances from NewYork, United States

Nicely done..So how do you do this anyway? I'm still frustrated trying to learn this editing stuff..more often than not I stay out of the program..
Need a sit down next to me teacher, know what I mean..

8 Dec 2007 7:17am

@Frances: Hey Frances...sorry it took me so long to get back with you. Here's how I did this. First of all, I used Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.

I chose the Marquee Tool and put a border around the subject that I wanted to keep "bright". I right-clicked the mouse and chose "Select Inverse". Then I went to "Enhance" on the tool bar, scrolled down to "Levels"

A small window popped up with a graph-Most of what I did next was to this graph. On my software, the graph had three triangles at the bottom. I moved the darkest triangle to the right and that caused everything outside my selected border to darken. So now the only that should be bright is the subject you selelcted before.

Now, if you want to darken areas closer to the subject, take the marquee tool and select an area to darken, only this time go straight to "Enhance" and select "Levels" and follow the process again...there's no need to "select the inverse" for this kind of touching up.

Well I hope that helps you. Have fun! =-)

Robert from Lincoln, United States

This one is one of my favorites. Good job.

19 Dec 2007 3:54am

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