Edit. Before and After.

Before & After~

 

Before:


After:

 

Oh this was fun lol.
I use scarab darkroom. since i dont have the photoshop one.
I messed with recovery, contrast, brightness, blacks, highlights, midtones, and shadows
(I did use photoshop in the third one to get rid of my foot xD)

 

here's mine before and after, usually for fix colors

before


after

 

Latest Before and After. Again, just editing in Lightroom:

 

I'll admit I've noticed that just simply lightening the photo can help aswell as ajusting the colours slightly, how i did this personally was doingthe vintage effect and overlaying the same image :P love how it gives a real summer effect (and matches much to the actually lighting that day XD) accept the bottom one, it was slightly cloudy that day

Before----After




I know the last one is pretty bad in quality, but shows the difference editing can make

 

I really love this thread. It has made me think more when I edit, instead of just publishing unedited pictures. I can clearly see what some editing does to improve a picture, though, I have made mistakes before and gone way too far with the effects, hehe.

I do certainly a the difference is obvious and that you're not confused about which one is the edited one. It's of course not a drastic change, but it makes more of a mood in my opinion.

 

Lightroom and Photoshop make my life better... :'D

 

I'm kind of a beginner with photoshop, so I'm not that good. I usually just mess around in photoshop camera raw and hope I get something good. xD

 

Satisfactory results can be achieved even with Instagram phone pictures. Fear not!
The "After" shot was edited in PSE8.



All I really did was slight color adjustment, Adjust Sharpness, resize, selective Adjust Sharpness around the face, selective dodging/burning on the eyes/eyebrows/lips/hair, and a bit of color brushing to enhance certain features (eye color, hair, pupil size, lips). Well it was actually a bit of work, I don't usually do this much for a photo. :3

Maybe it's a bit overdone but I'm pleased with the image quality overall, considering it came from a phone picture.

 

Sorry, there was a broken link in this because I deleted one of the pictures.

 

This is my first time editing photos of my doll. I don't have a good camera( in fact.. I just use my phone.. Camera is on the christmas list) So, the quality of my photo isn't that great.. but I tired?
Before

After

 

Not my best, but my most recent. My MNF Luka, Anouk.

before:

after:

 

Okay, a pretty recent one.

Before:


And After, to add some chill to it:


Basically, there's a lot of story behind it, but Eirian's boyfriend didn't come home the night before, and this is the morning after. Eh, that's a long story made short.

 

I think my edits are extreme >.> *really ashamed*



Before ( I'm a big failure at photography )


After

 

Joining the thread with my girl I really love Photoshop as you can see.


Jess before and after editing [700px] by ***Andreja***, on Flickr

 

Here is another from me! ;D

 

More playing with photoshop:

Before


After

 

Before


After

Miss headband. by bishiecake, on Flickr

 

sadly made the wrinkles in the top more apparent lol

 

Just saw this comment XD
Thank you!
Getting to understand histograms really helped

 

Here's an edit I just did. I'm sort of experiementing still with different effects, but so far I've been pretty happy about them.


It was really cloudy when I took this picture, so I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

I'm sorry about the huuuge first picture, I resized in photobucket and it just doesn't want to coaporate

 

cleaning up after some overly yellow overhead lighting ^^;;

 

Here mine ^^
I edit always my photos >_< due poor photograph skills and an endless fight against my bridge D:




I love cold colors uh Z_Z~

 

To me editing a digital picture kinda feels like developing the film. Sometimes I just try to give a natural look to my edits, but sometimes I just decide to go nuts. Or somewhere between the two^^

This was one of my heavier edits:


before

after

I used a modified version of this Photoshop action, too: [link]

 

Before:



After:


N-E by ___rei, on Flickr

part of me actually likes the Before a little more, i wish i had gone for that softer blue tone with my edit.

 

Before by Jenova663, on Flickr


After by Jenova663, on Flickr

 

Before:


After:

Alterations made: removed colour, sharpened image detail, cropped, increased contrast

 

After and before

 

Before:

After:

 

It was totally overcast here yesterday so I decided to spend a few minutes using that glorious light. And didn't get much. My "assistant" was being moody and unhelpful (ah, youth!) and my poses were seriously sucking. I was too lazy to go back inside for a TTL flash, so I used the on-camera flash with a filter. SHADOWS!!!!!!!!!! I thought PhotoShop! and salvaged a few.



Yikes! *covers eyes* Could this be any worse? And right off I saw the terrible hand pose...but yeah, the assistant refused to leave xBox and venture back outside. I should have hooked the doll's thumb into his front pocket or the belt loop. *grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr* I stared at this crap pic for a long time and then did this -



*shrug* Not working for me. The hand is bugging the #$%^ out of me, and the shadows look terrible and the overall muddy colour cast...ugh. So, I applied a high-contrast b/w filter....and felt it was presentable.



Still wildly unhappy with that hand and the shadows from trying to use the fill light.

But there you have it - spent more time in PS than on the shoot and that is not my optimum work flow....

 

ah hah.... I'm back. With photos I took a few days ago.

Before:


And After:


I don't know... I just like the brightness. And I love how sad this boy always looks. Is that bad? >.<

 

here's mine. :3 Still learning...XD

 

<- Before | After ->

 

Nothing that's decent art, but a quick color adjustment to compensate for ugly yellow lamp light >.<
(Just taking a quick shot of a recent face up)

 

A friend and I edited the same photos separately, and I put the comparison together. It's really interesting to see how the same photo can end up looking so different!

From left to right: original photo taken by me, edit by Schizocheese, edit by me.


A fun exercise in the essentials of editing. by rainwaltz, on Flickr

 

Here's an example of my editing. I usually don't do it that often unless I'm just adding my words to the picture, but lately I've been doing more and more and experimenting with different tools in both photoshop and photoscape.

Original:


Second edit-Added words and brightened the colors in photoshop:


Final edit-Took it to photoscape, added book effect, and created a "hazy" look:

 

Here's another technique I love doing. I know it as Colorization, it's what we used to call it when I was a photographer for a photography studio. It's my absolute favorite thing to do because it can make any picture look amazing.

Original:


Edited- Color was removed and then re-added to the grass and his eyes in photoshop:


Another example of Raquel and her Rikku doll:
Original:


Edited:


It can be quite a tedious process and it can take a long time sometimes depending on the item and its surroundings. Rikku was quite a hassle but worth it.

 

First I have these two lackluster shots....


... I futz together some editing and filters and chuck them together and somehow come up with something halfway presentable.

A haircut can make all the difference by resinprince, on Flickr

Don't ask me, I don't even know what's going on in my Photoshop. ;___;'''

 

here's my contribution.
Before

After

 

Another before and after
Something a little heavier handed then what I normally do, but it was pretty fun hah



Also this thread totally made me switch over to using RAW and Lightroom more then I use PS now LOL

 

I'm incredibly new to editing, so I'm really playing around with extremes at the moment. Before and after:

Before - no editing:



After - unnatural, heavy editing



After - scaled back editing, still too much to be 'natural'

 

Before:

After:


Desaturated, rotated + cropped, crease in lefthand corner reduced by applying multiple low-opacity copies of the area just above it; levels adjusted by darkening shadows, lightening midtones, and darkening highlights (so as to reduce the shiny resin look). I use GIMP.

 

Testing out a friend's shooting and editing technique, so it's a bit different from my usual!

 

Before:


After:


i don't use photoshop very well and i have a little photocamera.. i hope you like ^___^

 

I love photoshop (though have no particular expertise in using it!). For fun - a shot of the pipos bunny I did where I photoshopped out the joints (before and after):

 

Still trying to figure out how to properly photo edit. : P

Before


After

 

Since I joined one of those 356 groups on Flickr this year, I've been trying to put more of an effort into editing each day's pic, and not just my usual "dump camera to flickr"

I'm pretty happy with my edits today, so I made a before-n-after. Here it is, 'before' on the left

 

Exactly! Now I need to get photoshop!

 

My absolute favorite part of everything is editing. As long as I get the "expression" I want, I don't care if the photo comes out too dark or light or whatever... because that's precisely the challenge: taking something crappy, dull, or poor -- and making it into something totally different. This is one of my softer, less intense edits.

 

I love this thread! To me, editing is a lot of fun! Seeing everyone's before and afters that are such different takes is really interesting.

 

Very cool thread! So many wonderful pictures.

I do lots of photostories and I have very little time for setup and shooting, not to mention a dark house, so I do lots of editing, generally of the fast and dirty type that doesn't necessarily bear close examination!

special effects



motion



and a "beauty shot" that was taken from a candid of Wiishu sitting beside my work station with pretty afternoon sun hitting him.

 

I realize this comment is a year old, and, Loki's Mom, you've probably long since figured out what to do, but since others might have the same question, I thought I might suggest a somewhat different approach for getting started.

It's so easy with these powerful do-everything programs to get overwhelmed. I'd suggest starting with a few of the very basic adjustments and get them under control. Special effects and artsy stuff is a whole different game and you can play with that as you go along, but the first thing is learn how to make the actual photograph as good as it can be, and to get a feeling for just how much and what kind of information is in there.

Assuming one has already gotten the basics of composition and photography down, I think it's safe to say that slightly underexposing is better than overexposing. In general, the information is there in a dark area, but once it's gone white, it's hard to recover much. Key adjustments to look for are contrast, saturation and white balance.

Indoor lighting will usually make your image go yellow. Some cameras will compensate for that, but if you're like me and just sort of set your white balance and run, it's easy to adjust in most programs. PSP calls it the "white balance." I think PS does as well.

Contrast. There are lots of ways to adjust contrast other than simple "light" and "contrast". Look for key words like "fill light" and "local tone mapping". These adjust pixels relative to the pixels around them and bring out the detail in the dark areas without making the light areas go to white. Local tone mapping will also sharpen an image without making it harsh. And "CURVES" ARE YOU FRIEND!!!! It's a way to adjust the highlights, midtones and shadows smoothly throughout the image. Depending on your program, you can probably also do a shadows/midtone/highlight adjustment.

The other thing that's handy to learn are your selection and transformation tools. Being able to select the figure out of the background so that you can blur or desaturate or in some other way differentiate the foreground from the background is useful. Being able to pick the eyes out to do a localized brightening is really useful. Doing a local tone mapping doesn't add white the way dodge does but rather enhances the relative brightness of adjacent pixels, so it keeps the striations and reflections in the eye intact and sharp. Going in after salvaging as much native information as possible to add highlights to make the eyes sparkle never hurts.

Finally, clone or stamp brush is another "best friend." It allows you to copy nearby pixels to wipe out pesky hairs, hide electrical cords in the background or...wipe out hands holding little jumping house elves. I even use it for putting in highlights in the eye. White leaps out. If you can find a nice light area as your base for cloning, you can get a highlight that's in the colors already in the picture. I've even used it for painting, making a "palette" image that I keep beside the piece I'm working on and just clone from it rather than changing my brush colors.

If people are looking for a good editor for a reasonable price that will do all this stuff (plus has a dedicated local tone mapping option, unlike PS) PaintShopPro is a really good option. It's very powerful, esp where it comes to photoediting, and you can get if for under $100. Upgrades usually for $30....which will save you enough for another doll! I have both and for photo manipulation, I always go to PSP. It's not as fast as PS for things like actually painting and even saving is slower, but it does just about everything most people need.

Anyway...that's my 2 cents!

Oh, yeah...for most practical purposes, certainly for pictures intended for posting on the web, good old jpgs are fine in these gazillion megapixel cameras. I would suggest saving them in the program's native file type, even if you don't have layers (or png if it is a single layer) just to keep from losing information every time you close and reopen it. Final posting image is going to be jpg anyway.

 

Here are a couple of photos I've edited but mostly to put a special background in...

Here is the BEFORE. I cropped the edges; cartoonized her and added her to my chosen background.




AFTER: This is what she looked like after I added her to the background.



I did the same for this photo:

BEFORE:


I ended up editing her eyes and turned them red, as well as used layers and painted over the background with a sponge effect and added text. here is how she turned out...

AFTER: