Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Pizzaz Week 2

Following are some more artistic filter effects - with the originals posted first





Painting on Canvas






Plastic Wrap





Poster Edges








Neon Glow



Friday, May 22, 2009

Pizzaz Week 1

In this lesson we touched on several filters that come with the PSE7 program. The first two pictures show the before and after of using the Equalize filter. I selected part of the picture, and then the entire image was equalized based on the light and dark pixels in the selected area.





before






after




In the following pictures the sky was separated from the rest of the image and then both images were corrected separately.



before


after




There's a nifty filter called "Correct Camera Distortion" :

before



after




The blur filter is used in the next 2 pictures:


zoom blur

radial blur



The next filter was the Gaussian Blur, which is nice for softening an image:

Gwyn - before




Gwyn - after


I used the rough pastel filter on the flower arrangement: