Click and Mouseover the image for the before and after edits.
I'm probably not the only person who takes masses and masses of photos with my digital camera. The bigger my memory card gets, the more pictures I take and then of course you have a spare memory card for when the main one gets full .... and then of course there are all the pictures that you can take with your phone too .....
Storage and back up of all these images becomes an issue too ... so where do you stop? What do you throw out?
That for me is a major issue as I can usually find some small point of redemption in even the poorest of shots - even if it's just a photo to be kept as fodder for the shape and texture folder. I have a hard time putting any images in the Re-cycle Bin.
The Red balloon is a good example of something that "nearly" got tossed but then I hummed and hawwed over it some and decided to give it a 2nd chance. The terrible angle of the initial capture meant that just straightening the photo was not an option. Enter the handy dandy "Puppet Warp" tool which did a fairly decent job of fixing the bad line of the original. The balloon is still a bit skew-wiff, but by creating a bi-tonal image and ramping up the focus on the red of the balloon, it's less than perpendicular string becomes less of an issue.
I over sharpened the image a lot (on purpose), so that the reflection in the balloon would show up better. Added some grain and pumped up the grit factor with a gradient map.
All in all I'm pretty pleased with how the photo turned out and it just goes to show that what so easily could have been "Trash" turned into quite a nice little "Treasure"!
What do you think? Are you a hoarder or a culler?
LOVE this!
I'm a hoarder. I have several backups and I'm afraid to get rid of the extras! I save them thinking, I'm going to make a magnificent red balloon out of these, just like Marie did out of hers!
I don't have a red balloon picture.
Posted by: Chris | January 16, 2012 at 01:49 PM
Oh..don't even get me started on this. I'm definitely a hoarder. And - what doesn't speak to me one week..might speak the next. I just can't seem to throw them out! Love the spot of ruby red!!!
Posted by: Marcie | January 15, 2012 at 11:38 AM
hoarder! and I was just thinking about using an online backup service to help with this issue. Puppet warp, huh... I remember learning about it with the CS5 upgrade but haven't tried it out. I might have to give it a try now. Thx.
Posted by: Dori | January 15, 2012 at 01:36 AM
Hoarder! After filling up oodles of flash drives, I decided to get a portable hard drive that can go with me anywhere and everywhere. I'm so glad I've never dumped because I'm now finding new ways to use all those old images. Have a good day!
Posted by: Jane | January 14, 2012 at 04:02 PM
I am definitely a hoarder. It hurts to even think of throwing out a photo.
Posted by: joanne thieme huffman | January 14, 2012 at 05:45 AM
I keep them ALLLLLLL, my hard drive is expended several times, we now have over 5 TB at home... not all photo LOL, but a lot is taken up by photos. In each photo is a good thing to be found, with PS you can even do more
Posted by: Chantal | January 14, 2012 at 02:01 AM
Helooooooooooo Friend. I am no longer lost! Most definitely a hoarder here. Actually, even worse...I save my memory card by dates, never write over them. Had too many hard drives and even back up hard drives CRASH all those years I used my computer for business. Learned my lesson. Once it's gone, IT'S GONE! So when this one goes, I just pop in the old memory cards and magic...they upload by original dates in folders. I LOVE LOVE LOVE your red balloon.
**blows kisses** Deb
Posted by: Deborah Bauernfeind | January 13, 2012 at 07:45 PM
I'm a hoarder. There I said it. Who knows when my hard drive will explode, spewing out images like tickets at the theater. . . .
Lovely "save" on that balloon image :-)
Happy Weekend!
~Karen
Posted by: karen burns | January 13, 2012 at 06:59 PM