May 27, 2011

• I <3 Lightroom

  All this time, I’ve been editing photos with Picasa, which is pretty basic editing.  I tried Photoshop, but didn’t get it (I’m not great at learning computer stuff unless someone actually sits with me and shows me what to do and no one near me uses it).  Then people started recommending lightroom which is nice for batch editing and a little bit of touchups, which is what i needed.  It’s great since you can fix the exposure for a bunch of photos all at the same time if they’re all taken in the same location.  If I wanted more special effects, like cutting a head off and placing it on someone else, then I would need Photoshop.  I just played around with it today for an hour or so.  There are a TON of things on there that I don’t know how to do still…so I’m excited to learn!  I’ve also started shooting in RAW since I’m able to recover a lot with all that stored data.

  Here’s my very first edit. It’s not a great edit since I only figured out how to do 2 things today haha (dodge/burn and vignette).

  Straight out of the camera’s too.  This was just-grab-the-camera-and-shoot moment, so I didn’t have time to turn on the flash or change the settings.  And it’s blurry since she was fidgeting, but there’s nothing I can do about that.

  

  After the edit.  The color is still a little off and I didn’t fully master the lighting edit…and I can’t figure out how to crop!  But just from doing a few things, it looks so much better.
  

  (btw, she figured out how to open T’s red ink pad and stuck it in her mouth)

  • 12:26 am
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