One of my hobbies is taking pictures. In particular, I love to take picture of landscape and nature. It is very interesting to transform the photo from original. Using the free online editing tools allowed me to play around with my photos and to see what I am able to do to my picture.
Original
I took this picture in the Toronto Zoo in June 2011. As you can see, I took the photo in low light conditions therefore the colors of picture were little bit dim, so I would like to make it much more vivid and richer. I used Picasa 3 version to edit the picture. At first, for this photo I have chosen, I tried to make it livelier by brightening the colors, sharpening it. I also used shadows function and highlights tool to make the picture look like natural, but I still felt that I had to add more tools to show what I wanted to express. After that, I chose the effect of boost to improve the color saturation. The last thing that I changed for this picture, I added museum matte flame to the photo to look like hanging at art gallery.
Edited Photo 2
This picture is exactly the same what I did one above, I just added to use 1960’s tool, but I didn’t change background color and fade function. This is one of my favorite effects in Photoshop, which transformed a modern photo into old photo. As seen above, with the modification, the feeling of a peaceful zebra was well expressed in the picture.
Original
Edited Photo
I took the above picture from the city of Ottawa in May 2009; it was my first travel since I came to Canada, and so I had great expectations for the trip. Unluckily, as you can see, the day I captured this photo was not a good day. It was very dark and cloudy. For this photo, I tried to make it bright sunny day with Picasa 3 version. I adjusted the brightness, highlights, and shadow tool first; these tools make it more clearly. The next thing I changed is that I used the effect of orton-ish. I opened the part and changed the brightness and fade slightly. After that the picture looked nicer. I also tried to use glow tools to give the picture a gauzy glow and changed intensity and radius a little bit.
Original
Edited Photo
For the last photo, I took this photo in New York last year. I really expected to take a picture in front of this structure because the structure is one of the well known places for travellers. I would like to highlight the letter of love, so I used fill light tool and chose the effect of cross process. Finally, I added Polaroid flame to the photo, which looks like above.
