Iron man!

Editing just makes pics look more dramatic.

Colors!!!

With PicMonkey.com I turned this picture into..... 

This!

I brought out the colors and brightened it up a bit.  Now it looks like a tree you would find in a tropical forest or something like that.  Instead it was taken at the park while watching my little boy play in to water.

It makes a nice abstract picture.

PicMonkey Collage

Thank you PicMonkey.com :)  

No I don't work for them.  I just love the way my pictures turn out, its like painting with out the mess and time.  Maybe I'm a lazy person.  

Caden

This is my friend Angel's baby, Caden. I used PicMonkey.com to edit it.  

Anyone can make their pictures look great without having to pay someone to do it for them.  So chose a picture that you think needs to be centered or that is too dark or maybe the face is a little messy and go in PicMonkey.com to edit it.  This is so simple and fun!  

Look at those lips.  

Leon

 

This is from our Zion's trip a couple months ago.  In the first pic you can see Levi, my husband, holding Leon up. :)  I used PicMonkey.com to edit it.  

 

 

 

Most times I crop my pic first then go into exposure and sharpen but this time I went into exposure and highlighted it up then brought out the shadows first.  After that I then went into sharpen and brought out the sharpness to about half way.  I don't bring out the clarity that much in pics I want to look realistic.  So in this pic is was about 1/4 the way up.  I use clarity the most with pics I want to look more abstract or artsy. 

 

Other wise this is what you get.

 

 

My boy

 I suffer from the shinny face syndrome................   I hate it!!!!

 

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My back yard

Here in sunny old St. George we don't get very many clouds so when I saw this I had to take a picture of them.  I love the colors of the clouds.  So the first one is the original and the second is my edited one.  Not sure which one I like the most.

            

Dawson

Another picture of baby Dawson.  I love PicMonkey editing!

Dawson

This is my little sisters baby boy, Dawson.  I love this little face!!!

It looked like he was a little too far away so I cropped it and re-sized it. After that I highlighted and sharpened it up a bit.  Then I just messed with the effects part in PicMonkey editor by going back and forth with the different categories.  I really like how it came out! 

Main focus

 

 

I look crappy in this but Leon's face is beautiful!  I used my old camera for this.  I has few to no pixels.  If you want to enlarge your pics then you need a camera that has more mega pixels.

 

 

 

I only wanted Leon to be the main focus so I cropped everything out and made it 8*10 size. Its a little more fuzzy than I wanted but I still like it.  On PicMonkey if you first use the highlight and shadow, then go in to sharpen and use sharpness and clarity it makes the pic come out.  After that I go back and forth from effects and touch up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leon may 2013

 

This is as the kite festival in St George, 2013!!

 

 

 

 

I cropped the pic to only show what I wanted to main focus on and then highlighted it.

HOT!!!

St George, UT is one hot place!!!!  It's been between 104 and 114 degrees for the last couple of weeks. I thank whom ever thought of putting in splash pads!!!  Here we have one on main street, that has both a splash pad and a little river through it.

This is a pic of the river. 

For this one I went with dark browns.  I used; orton, cross process, ortrom, mascara 3 times, eye brighten, mascara again, and then tranquill

 Then I was thinking, "How would this look in blues?"  So I tinted it with blue and then brought out the darker lines with mascara and eye brighten.

Looking a little funny?

 

 

 I hated how I looked in this picture so I changed it up a bit.  The changes I made make it look way better than before.



 

 

 

First I went into basic edits and used exposure and sharpen.  I have a really crappy camera (it takes batteries) so I had to re-size it making it a 5 by 6 photo.

 

Then I went in to touch up and used eyeliner and eye brighten to bring out the lines.

 

 

Next I went into Effects and used cross process, orton, black and white, yest color and tranquil.

 

 

Then I went back into touch up and used mascara and eye brighten again.

 

 

Then went back into Effects and used orton and time machine.  Done!!

 

 

 

 

Leon's picture!!!!

 

My son took this picture last month.  His uncle Kelly, aunt Heather and cousin Alex were visiting form up north so they got a hotel room.  This is a picture of the cement out by the pool area.  Leon grabbed the camera and started taking pics of anything and everything. :)

 

 

 Before

 

 

After

 

 

 

First I sharpened it up all the way.  Then I went into exposure and used highlighted it up to about 75%.  In our new house we are going with, sky blue, as an accent color to go along with our browns and tans.  This is goign to look great up on the wall!
 

 

 

Now I'm going to go into the Touch up column.  I want the top of the picture to be the focus so I'm going to use the mascara on the top and the airbrush on the bottom.  It didn't work for me so I then used eye brighten and mascara again on the top.  Now I like it.

 

 



 

Now its time to go into the Effects section.  I used cross process, urbane, cross process again, and then tint (blue).  I went back to touch up and used eye brighten for the top again and smoothed out the bottom by using airbrush.  Looks like a winner :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

Messy face?

Spaghetti for dinner = messy red face

I used Picmoney.com to turn the above into the below.  I changed it to black and white in the Effects page.  I then went into Touch up and played around with mascara to bring out and make the lines darker.  In Touch up I also tinted his eyes blue and used eye brighten to make them stand out.