"You can teach students one lesson a day; but if you can teach them to learn by creating curiosity, they will continue the learning process for as long as they live." ~ adapted from Clay P. Bedford

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Photo Editing in EDCI 336

Today we played with photo editing software and I had SO MUCH FUN! It literally took me FOREVER to pick the effects that I wanted because there were SO many!

The Original Photo
Photo Credit Goes to:
Bleachers

The photo was taken from this
Creative Commons Search Page

Using
Picnik photo editor online I managed to create this:


Because I was so excited, I used a number of tools including:
- auto-fix - brightness - temperature - stickers (rectangle)
- re-size - highlight - sharpness - text (font: Jules-te-reo)
- exposure - shadows - fade - Focal B&W
- contrast - saturation - frames (double museum matte)

Review of Picnik:
This was quite the experience. Prior to this class I had only explored photo editing through the "default" editor. Picnik opened up a whole new world of editing. I was able to use a number of tools that I didn't even know existed. It was fun and easy. There were several different options. What I did not like was that the "Premium" options were included with the "free" options, which made it confusing and misleading. I really wanted to use some of the effects offered in the "Premium" set but was unable to. Overall Picnik was a great experience and I really enjoyed it.

For the second edit, I used
Sumo Paint Online Editor. Here's what I created from the Original Photo above:
Sumo Paint Online Image Editor is clearly more advanced than Picnik. This program is definitely for more experienced photo/image editors. I am not one of those people, but I gave it a shot. There were so many more options to choose from and the navigation was difficult at first.

The tools I used in Sumo Paint:
- brightness/contrast
- text (font: Arial, lyrics to Angel)
- colour balance
- lighting effects
- 3D effects (cube designers)

Overall the experience was very educational. I am definitely more comfortable with Picnic because of it's simple and easy-to-use applications and navigation system - should I become more advanced in my photo editing skills then I will move to Sumo Paint.

Until next time,
LC

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