Effects on picmonkey

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I took this picture looking down from the third story building where I work.  I have lived here in good 'old St. George for 20+ years and have never seen a snow storm like this before.  I had to take a picture of it.

So first, when I look at one of my pictures, I think of what steps I want to take to have the out come I want.  With this picture I chose Orton on effects tab.  The best way to make it look the way you want, is to play with it. When you click  on the tab it will give you a chance to increase the effect or decrease it.  You can always click undo if you make a mistake.

 

 

After that I went to Cross process, its just under the Orton tab. It makes things have a little tint of blue, green or red.  On pictures of people I usually chose green just because it brings out the colors of our skin better.

 

 

Cross process green

Cross process blue



Fixing your dull pictures

                         

 

I pass mountains after mountains on my commute to work and then back home.  I do live in a very beautiful part of the world. 

 

 

These mountains are very far away, I wasn't sure how they would turn out so I did a lot of playing around in the different effects on Picmonkey online editing.  First I went into exposure and brought out the highlights and the shadows.  It was looking kinda plain.

 

 

After that I then went into sharpness in the Basic Edits and incressed the sharpness.  I don't always use clarity, it makes my pictures look a little too dark.  Then I went into Touch up and used a little mascara to bring out the darker lines.  After that I started looking for something, in Effects, to bring out the color without over doing it.  I found film stock and went with reala, it brought out the darkness of the shadows

 

 

Fixing spots and bringing out colors

Sometimes when I look at a photo that I hate or that I look crappy in, I think of how I can make it look better even if I have to change it all together.

 

With this photo, I hated, my shinny face and my sons bright faded face.  I darkend it up a bit then cropped it and then started to play with eyebrighten and mascara.  Don't look at the photo on the left too long, I look crappy. ; 

Red Rock

One of this things I find most beautiful about St George UT.

I took this pic on one of the craziest rain storms here in St George Ut.

Side walk art

Iron man!

Editing just makes pics look more dramatic.