A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Banter Hall Get creative with your pictures!

Hopefully I will get some of you to join me with getting creative with your editing programs for your digital pictures,,and title them, The program I have is a safe free down load,,, paintnet, I want Cindy's program But can't afford that one
I haven't learned hardly anything yet matter of fact I have barely scratched the surface of it all,, but for starters I took a picture of my rock garden Angel just as the sun was at it's peak right before sundown,,,, after I loaded it on the computer I decided to have fun with it,, this is the original picture,,
original......


first one I did off of it.

Angel Came from Heaven on a Sun Beam





More next post..........

The second one I did was,,,,,
Even Angels Day Dream



and third one tho I'm not really happy with it when I noticed it was almost midnight I pretty much save it as is,, I may still tweek it tho,,

Look close Angels are everywhere,,,,,,



I could get creative with the program that came with this laptop,, but once I learned it,, I wanted more options,,,
Let's see what cha' got,, I know you all have creative minds or else you wouldn't be at the Garden Helper!

Those are great Diane!!

I don't have a creative program!!! Can you PM me a site link?

Diane those are great. Every time I try something like that I mess up and just delete it all.

Thank you Jimmy Don't delete those ,,,,,,,, share with us!! We can see uniqueness that sometimes the creater can't see..

Unicorn 's quick advance

Here is something I did with a scenery picture Loz had taken on her train trip.
I used an Antique Brown on it:

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh I Like that Shirley,,,,,



This is just a simple picture of an airplane looking up from my back yard


Catching the Red-Eye

How cool is that!!!!!! That's fun!!

(I had to ask you another question...check Pm box)

Here is a picture I drew with my mouse in my PaintProgram. Then I 'blurred' it.
I can't do all that beautiful creative stuff yet! But I will!!!

that is soooooooooooooooooooooooooo cool!!!!!!!!

I tend to decorate with my program. I use GIMP....it is a free download...I'm not sure how it compares to the one you got for free tho...haven't heard of that one. Anyways, here is a "decorated" photo that I did. The waterfall is one that is near where Stephen's mom lives.



I blurred and zoomed and shrank and I think I might have enhanced the coloring a bit too, but I can't remember.

The Unicorn looks magical like it is from another plain.

Jenn I almost down loaded gimp! I just couldn't decide which to go with,, I love how you wrote within the picture too,, That is awesome!
CNet has a list of down loads, I read the editor's review and then downloader's view and compare,, Did you use the same program with the your kids' pictures??


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Thanks Jimmy!

These are all so cool to see! Diane you sure are creative!

Cindy, I can never thank you enough for fixing that picture....when I lived with my sister she ruined it by putting it on the fridge in one of those magnet frames. That's my favorite picture of the 2 of us.

Okay Cindy I'm going to have to call you and you need to tell me how to do layering like you did with the collage of pictures and how to restore like you did Loz and her Sister ,,,,, when your up to it that is ,,,,,, I haven't figured that out yet,* the layering) and layers back ground merg blending etc,, ,,,, I pretty much have the cloning down . Is the cloning tool involved in restoration of a picture??

That's a great photo touchup AF; I'm impressed ;) (and as an ex employee of Adobe, that's saying something hehe)...

Cindy, I remember all those pictures, except the ones about the alien and G-Mom
(you are so pretty in that one with G-dad!!!)

And that alien spider is the avatar on here you kept tricking me with!!!

Huh???

You're so silllllllllly!!!!!!

Mystery Guest would be a GOOD hostess!!!!
I'd still blame you, though!!!

I soooooo agree ;)...

Looks like me... No money for caffine lol...

Hey Cindy!!!!!!!!! My first attempt at layering,, I've still got a lot to learn but this picture was funnnnnnnn to do!




This background in this picture is Wild Willy's Woods

That super freak is CINDY!!!!!! How cool is that!!!

(James...I wish I knew what YOU look like! I did look at your
photo gallery...but.... )

I can see you, just like that!! Well.....not green...but.....playin' your air guitar!!

Like your new signature line!!

(I just realized that I took mine away and never did make another one!!
hummmm...what should I say......)

I've been messing around with layers for a while now. Took me a heck of a while to figure it all out.

I also did a restoration job on a friends picture....it was pretty bad like mine, and when I fixed it she was overjoyed. I told her a friend of mine had once fixed my picture and I was passing on the good deed.

I use Serif's free photo program. It's not bad for being free.

Superfreaky Cindy.

Diane - those last 2 pictures of yours are really cool!
I love the way you perched the bird and fairy on the branches, and all the other clipart as well!

And the one of Cindy - well what can I say? Too cool!!!

I haven't used any of the programs that you do so well with,
but I did like the way this picture came out of a tree 2 autumns ago.

that's a great picture Lynne. I don't know how to do all that fancy stuff.

Lynne , yours looks like you're viewing the tree looking thru a frosted over window,, Nice!

I just remembered that a few years ago I was playing around with my photo editor and came up with this picture.

My alien friends! Shirley - see the faces??? :wink:


And here is the original picture

I see faces ... lots of them ,,,,,,, I see sea crabs too,, ,,,,,,, Coooooool Lynne!

How cool Lynne!!! What a difference in the two pics! YES!!I do see the faces!LOL

I see the face of a horse in the red one and Chong in the green one.

Took this picture this afternoon,, ,,,,, Today I'm feeling melancholy ,, and for some reason this rose touched my sensitive side, sometimes God's gifts of beauty can be overwhelming,

are you sad because you couldn't find your shoe laces?

is that rose in your yard?

That's so lovely!

Noooooooo not the shoelaces, although emmy did chew up the replacement during the night sometime,, arrrrrrg,, I don't think she wants me to go to work

Yep rose is in my yard,


thanks Sheri and Shirley

that rose is beauiful

Sorry i haven't gotten back to you sooner. I've been super busy with visiting my parents this week, but I'm home now. :) To answer your question...yes, GIMP is what I used for my kid's pictures also. Funny that you did something with a rose...I did this just the other night. I used a picture of a rose as a background and then found some other pictures of just different roses that were already cut out and such. I had to cut out the bird from another picture and did different resizing and rotating for them...



I have quite a few backgrounds and "accessories" for my decorating. I get it free on different digital scrapbooking blogs and sites. There are a couple blogs that the people make entire sets that are "freebies". I am going to start digital scrapbooking because in the long run, it is cheaper because you can use the same things over and over again.

Here is a bonus for you...I was learning how to play with different effects you can do to writing. This is a combination of a blur, embossing, and colorizing. I'm currently learning how to make writing look like glass and gel.

Okay I don't get the embossing thing,,, can you explain it Jenn?? I've tried it but can't figure it out!

I love that picture!!!!!

Can you tell me what comes up when you select "embossing"??? I'm not familiar with your editing program.

When I am doing something...like the one for Luke, I usually write the text, then duplicate it. Now, in Gimp, everything is a separate layer, so the original text is one layer and then the dup turns into another layer. I select the dup layer and make that layer the same size as my finished size so that it doesn't cut anything off by accident. I also make the original text layer the same as the finished size (I usually just work with like 400x300 pixels or something like that). Then I usually invert the color and do a guassian blur on it of at least 5 pixels. This gives it that slightly fuzzy look around the text...the more pixels to the blur, the fuzzier it looks. Then I merge the dup layer onto the original layer to make it one layer and then click on the auto-crop feature so that I can move the text around easily if I need to. Then I go to the embossing tool. Now, for GIMP, there are 3 things that you can change for the embossing. I always have the preview box selected so that I can see what is changing as I change the different numbers. The three different things are "azimuth", "elevation", and "depth". I believe for Luke's I had them set at 30, 45, and 20 respectively.

I'm hoping that helps you a little....like I said, I am not familiar with your program. I really like GIMP because I can use things in other formats on it and I can save it as different formats as well. This makes it nice when your on a site and you want to save different fonts or brushes....I will be learning how to save new fonts this weekend...I hven't had time to try doing that yet, but I have a TON of sites with fonts on them. I LOVE fonts...and I love making "word art" which is what that little saying is up in the roses pic. I found that saying, but I did the different fonts and such all by myself. Oh...and the large word "rose" behind it was just regular text that I lowered the opicity on....maybe to a 50 or 60 on that pic.

ETA: by the way...that picture was a color photo. I desaturated it and then played with different hues and stuff to get that color...I love that picture as well. It is by far my favorite one that I have done soo far.

Love that rose background Jenn!

Thanks Shirley. I found it as a freebie on someone's blog. She did 3 entire sets of freebies with only roses. I downloaded them all.

Jenn this is what embossing does with my program it can be set at differnt angles,,


I don't get it,,

That looks like embossing to me, Diane!!!

That is pressing something into paper or foil and then turning it over and you see raised up impressions.

Or you can hammer some impression into metal and turn it over and have the raised up impression.

That is pretty much what embossing does to text, I just colorize it also. The embossing makes the text look raised...there is usually another step that I have seen other people use. I'm going to PM you something...ok?

Okay!

I've been spending a LITTLE too MUCH time with my rabbits. It's starting to show I think.


THORNY RABBIT

Ohhhhhhhhhh Thorny You sure can brighten up things up around here,,
*It's better to be long eared than long toothed,* ,

Thorn, I think you've dipped into Grace Slick's White Rabbit solution.

Been on any airplanes lately, say like Jefferson Airplane?

Go ask Alice......

that generation of music was the best.

LOVE IT! You guys are just the medicine I needed today! Thanks!

Watchful Eye

don't you EVER go to bed?

Not for very long Sheri!

It's still raining. Actually it's raining again. Can't get my goodies put up Diane. gotta work. Hope you have a great day.

ohhhh Diane! I like that eye in the sky!!

I couldn't see that eye at work for some reason. That's a great picture.

But it could see you!!!!!!

Thanks you two,,,,,, The original picture shows almost a tunnel thru those dark clouds, then I noticed what could be an eye and went with it!

Diane - that eye is WOW! Almost creepy to me - the way it looks like it sees and knows all! But another great and creative picture you've done!