I know I promised more art cars, but I wanted to take a break, I'll have more next week. I recently unearthed my box of photos (remember that? BOXES of photos?? egads... I just realized how many boxes I would have to store if the technology hadn't changed!) ... a box of photos from my 2 month, cross-country road trip in 2000-thankfully, even though you did have to pay for processing, they were then putting them on disks if you asked. So I pulled the box out and loaded them all into my computer. 30 rolls (remember rolls?) of film, 1087 images later... and then I started going through them. I discovered several photos that were fine compositionally, but the quality wasn't great. So just for fun, I took one of them and played around in Photoshop to see what I could make of it. I thought you might like to see how much you can change and improve a photo.
The original photo-very washed out, and grainy.
Here I increased the saturation and strengthened the contrast.
Next, I wanted to simplify the image-to help viewers better see the composition, that had prompted me to take the photo in the first place. I used the Filter Gallery to experiment with different filters. This is the Dry Brush Filter.
Dark Strokes Filter
Palette Knife Filter
Sponge Filter
Accented Edges Filter
Note Paper Filter
Cut Out Filter
Cut Out Filter #2 Here, I cropped the image and did a different version of Cut Out-changing the settings to strengthen the contrast.
Poster Edges Filter
Now just for fun... here is the original again... amazing what we can do with computers isn't it?
Have a Wonderful Day!
