Each month I usually do about 500 image edits. I'm into editing my own photos and art, as well as other peoples pictures, so there are usually a big pile to sort into folders at the end of each month
But this month I'm doing more than usual. Over the past two days I've just done about 300 photos for @kiwideb who is organising a presentation for her mum's 80th
These photos mostly range from 1920's to 1980's. And about a third are black and white. But we are not talking carefully preserved crisp classic photos here. We are talking rough as guts old snapshots that have had a hard life.
If I had more time and less photos I'd be more anal and put them through Photoshop as well, but this is high speed editing - just tidying them up for presenting on a big TV screen.
With some of them there is physical damage to fix:
Leaving some stuff unfixed is good for me I think - a sort of anal therapy
Most of them mainly need some cropping to bring the attention onto the people rather than the background.
And then to give them all a consistent style I finish each one with a white frame with curved corners (you may have noticed me doing that before!)
Thank me later @andysantics48
After doing all those I thought I'd be a bit burned out from editing, but what has actually happened is that I ended up wanting to carry on by editing more of my own photos, and more of my art.
Yesterday I did a post about Kuratua where I edited my photos into 16x9 ratio and tweaked them a bit.
https://steemit.com/teamnz/@mg-nz/kuratau-is-one-of-the-most-scenic-places-in-new-zealand
And last night I was getting into taking my rough as guts doodles and turning them into art. What I've been practicing mainly is going really fast and seeing what happens.
This is a scan of doodle in my diary where you can even see the lines on the page.
After putting it through some "GoArt" filters, and then some doing edits in "Snapseed" it has a whole new look.
I got carried away and did about another 100 edits of rough art last night.
Here is another one:
But then the cows came home so I had to stop :)
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Nice work, plus you are preserving little slices of history.
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Exactly! They won't all be used in the presentation, but my long term goal is to have a family tree with all these old photos embedded, that all Mum's grandkids can have a soft copy of, so their kids can see where they've come from.
What a nice variety and peek into some of your projects!
I am a hack photographer so I wish I could justify the time spent editing the photos mostly taken on my i-phone. It is amazing how more immersive a photo can get when you crop it properly and how it makes you seem like a photographer when you change the resolution.
Right now, I am trying some water colour painting with my little girl and will have to take a pic of it when we are done. Probably won't look half as good as even your doodles but fun to learn.
Are those filters on the doodles or do you colorize them?
With those doodles I'm just using filters for the colours but with cleaner ones I do also paint bucket them and stuff.
Haha they are so good! I wanna show my little girl how to do that!
What tools you use? (without giving away your secrets!)
For photo editing on my tablet I mainly use Snapseed and GoArt, with a bit of DeepArt Effects too, but the first two apps are brilliant. They are all free, and you don't really need to pay to unlock extra filters, unless you want to.
For drawing I use In Design (but that one I had to buy) or Art Flow (good and also free)
Much appreciated! I will hopefully have some art to post from my little one with the tools you have shown me.
I nearly shed a tear! It's so important to treasure photos and art from our lives. I'm in the process of doing the same on my end. Respect!
I've been meaning to add up how many images I have - roughly 35 000 I think
You are a hard arse
wow! thats really cool! thank you for sharing!
if you like this you will probably like this ARTVIDEO as well! https://steemit.com/art/@artbylaurajansen/55jwsm0j
I am just lookin forward to receive some feedback. The video is made by me. Al the Visuals and graphics as well. Let me know what you think!
xxx Laura
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STOPHey that's some pretty cool photos...good luck with the presentation Mrs. Sift666
That guy in the middle must be gas proof!
LOL, either that or he's already full of gas.
That's why you are a pro in editing stuff and that too in a funky way creative :D
Thanks, Pro makes me sound like I have special powers!
I wrote something then erased it because it was super boring. Therefore:
Be more madcore!
I gotta learn some of this next.
This is the most complicated thing I've done. It's just layers. It needs more color and the spiral needs to be redone.
You are such a purist :)
Is that what's keeping Deb away? Tell her I'm going to write her on discord.
Love your doodles, makes me want to try!
Have a crack - it's not hard!
Yes I've told Deb to seek you on Discord and she did and that reminded me why I don't use Discord - that beeping noise is beyond annoying! Maybe it's meant to be?
lack of agreement of harmony; strife
harsh confused mingling of sounds
a combination of musical notes containing one or more dissonant intervals
dissonance (sense 3), concord (sense 4)
verb (dɪsˈkɔːd )
(intransitive)
to disagree; clash
Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
Word origin of 'discord'
C13: from Old French descort, from descorder to disagree, from Latin discordāre, from discors at variance, from dis-1 + cor heart
You can mute the sounds, I did :)
Ok second attempt, this time my bestest speak clearly and avoid going on about asses.
What I need to know Nexus how to save it and where it goes. If I could do that I could just dictate replies to people's comments and copy and paste them.
You are a dick head I could say. You are a spastic numpty. This is quite good for insulting people. You have a small penis. You look like Donald Trump. You are as mad as a snake. I like this dictation program. This could get good.
As I was walking across the field a man on skateboard being towed by dog zoom pass made about 50 km an hour. It was quite impressive really. Cottage cheese muffins for dinner. I had an enema. Tomorrow I'm going to line my balls and be a monkey.
Next time going to say next. Next I'm going to say next. I need to speak clearly. If I speak clearly seems to work. What if I said arnold Schwarzenegger. That was fucking impressive I can't spell it myself. Ok I'm warming to Las.
Deb is going to Samoa to eat coconuts and drink in a koala's. That should be Pina kawana. Pina colada. That's a bit better, can we worship Satan now? Maybe it's time to put on some Led Zeppelin.
Air New Zealand we have some strange words, like pohutakawa, and bogan, and Chrysler V8 Valiant. Holy Jesus I think I need an enema. This is working so fucking well my mind is blown. I'm going to smoke some pot and go on a ketogenic diet, and then I'm going to stand on my head 422 minutes. Or longer.
Let's start again. This is working well but I still don't know where it saved it to. We could record a conversations, and then we would have proof what we said, and if one of us was a fucking idiot. It would probably be me he was a fucking idiot but at least I would have proof.
Ummmm whatttt? Did you find some magic mushrooms? Hahaha!
Maybe speech dictation programmes have all the benefits of psychedelics without the side effects!
Deb has been trying to do that - I'll tell her to try harder :)
You do a fantastic job @sift666 , what a great work you do, WOW. I am very impressed.
I love so so much, what you have created from your doodles !!! Amazing, the one above the cows is my favourite, so cool.
I love old photos. I love playing around with them. I am in no way so professional like you ... I just love playing around with them and see what they hold.
When I worked on this shot from an old movie, I was amazed, what colours showed up, when I played around with filters. I mostly paint with filters in different layers. (sorry missing the technical expressions for that)
Give Snapseed a go - it's free but it's very good!
Never heard of it, will check it out right away, thank you very much.
Never heard of it,
Will check it out right away,
Thank you very much.
- anutu
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If @sift666 are not an expert picture taker, it probably won't be justified regardless of the money to get your hands on Photoshop, yet that doesn't mean you can't get extravagant with your photograph altering. Free, electronic photograph editors are an extraordinary option for taking care of business.
Your cow is home - time to put them all in a Steemit post!
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I meant barry butthole with all the cash - not the angry trannies who had no money anyway