Owner: Gini's Magic - Photo Restoration, Enhancements, and Fantasy Portraits URL:http://www.ginismagic.blogspot.com Join Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:34:07 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: A blog showing examples or my work and give tutorials on how to use Adobe Photoshop to restore damaged photos, enhance simple pictures to become beautiful, engaging images, and turn everyday photos into the most magical of fantasy portraits. Site statistics:Click here
Portrait Enhancement - Major Shadow Removal and Skin Smoothing 2008-06-26 23:37:00 This photo was taken by a friend of the bride, not a professional photographer. Overall, It is a beautiful picture. The problem: It was obviously shot in the early to mid afternoon, when the sun was high and shining directly down on the bride; causing dramatic shadows and hiding her beautiful blue eyes.The details of what I corrected included lots of detail work around the eyes, lightening shadows Read more:Portrait
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How to Create a Beautiful Selective Black and White Photo in Photoshop 2008-06-26 16:11:00 Here is and example of a soft, glowing SelectiveBlack
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.I will start off with this where I left off on the restoration of this same original photo (see previous posts).This customer wanted a Selective Black & White version of this photo. She asked me to leave the flowers red and the eyes blue. So, after the restoration, I carefully selected the tulips, inverted the selection, and fe Read more:Beautiful
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How to Turn A Baby Into a Flower - Example 2 2008-06-12 23:30:00 This is me again! Some people are embarrassed by their baby pictures, but I’m not. I was adorable and I know it! =)In this case, I used my own face and put it on a picture of a daisy that I had taken earlier. It is quite an involved process, and I don’t want to reveal all my secrets, especially since I don’t know of anyone else who does portraits like these, so I won’t be explaining this o Read more:Example
Damaged Photo Restoration - Recreating missing Pieces of a Photo 2008-05-27 08:11:00 Much of the time, repairing a photo is more difficult than it looks. This was not one of the those cases.Though it may look difficult because such large pieces are missing, the majority of what was missing was background, so repairing them mostly involved some creative cloning and blending.The most difficult part to fix was the piece missing from the lower left corner, because part of the child’ Read more:Photo
A Really Cool Special Effect 2008-05-14 07:11:00 Here is an example of another one of my favorite Special
Effects; Brownie Diffuse. This effect is best used on a photo like the one below, with two main colors or tones.This effect is a mixture of two different filters, some dodging, some burning, and some good, old fashioned, tinkering with color and saturation. It was done completely in Microsoft Digital Image Pro 10, but it can just as easily b
Turning Friends Into Fairies - Example 1 2008-05-05 17:39:00 This is another photo I took myself, of one of my best friends in my front yard. I can take pretty much any photo of a person and turn them into a fairy, but some positions are better than others. For me to turn you (or anyone else) into a fairy, just send me a picture of the person in whatever clothes you want, and make sure that there is nothing in front of the person that you don’t want in th Read more:Example
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Fixing an Old, Damaged Photo 2008-04-20 18:17:00 For this otherwise beautiful photograph, the worst of the damage was in what is almost always the most difficult place to repair; the face.Eyes are especially tricky when there are scratches or tears to fix. Luckily, with this photo, the majority of the damage was limited to only one side of the woman’s face. I used this to my advantage, especially when fixing the eye.As with most photos that re Read more:Photo
Abstract Mermaid Tutorial - Turning a Pencil Drawing Into an Abstract Graphic Image 2008-04-03 00:01:00 To create this image you'll need:two pencils; one sharp and one fairly dull, a piece of paper (a sketchbook would be perfect),a scanner, and a digital editing program (the one used here was Adobe Photoshop Elements)When I started drawing this, just like a lot of my drawings, I had no idea what I wanted it to look like when I was finished. But that's what is so great about art; you can watch yourse Read more:Abstract
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Enhancing Portraits and Lighting Correction 2008-03-23 01:47:00 This is a self-portrait I shot against a blank wall in my house. When I took this photo, I accidentally shot it with the wrong setting on my digital camera. As you can see, the lighting left A LOT to be desired, but fortunately I was able to fix that afterward. Once again, this work was done completely in Adobe Photoshop Elements.For a better, larger view of this portrait, please visit my website, Read more:Portraits
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How to Turn an Ordinary Photo Into a Dreamy, Dramatic Image 2008-03-11 17:50:00 This is a portrait I shot of my cat. And below is an example of how I can take a simple, ordinary, albeit very cute subject and turn it into an engaging and interesting image.I used two of my Special Effects on this image, both of which are made up of several different filters and some other digital tinkering.First, to get the intense color, I used an effect that I call "Wonderful Drama". It invol Read more:Photo
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Hello World! 2008-03-10 04:03:00 Gini Here!I can’t wait to start posting here and showing you guys all that I can do. I use digital editing computer programs to enhance and repair photographs. I can restore old and damaged photos, use special effects to enhance already beautiful images, and I can turn ordinary people into extraordinary beings.I love what I do and as I do it I learn more and more. As I learn more, I seem to wind Read more:Hello
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Safely Upgrading RAM for Graphic Artists and Other Computer Lovers 2008-07-13 20:20:00 Adding extra memory to your computer will keep it running smoothly and quickly. For graphics artists like me having plenty of RAM is one of the most important things to think about when buying or upgrading a computer. Adding RAM to an existing computer is easy, fast, and cost effective.Memory Deal has taken the process a step further toward safety with their unique online service guaranteeing that Read more:Safely
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Top 10 Free Photoshop Brush Sources 2008-08-14 16:09:00 These websites include brushes that are free for personal and/or commercial use. The blog is not connected with any of these sites and I am not giving official terms of use for any of them. Please make sure you check the terms of use and licensing information for each website before downloading anything from them.1. Obsidian Dawn - By far the best brush source I've found, and the one I use more th Read more:Photoshop
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New Fairytale Backgrounds Available For Custom Fantasy Portraits 2008-08-01 18:40:00 I've been creating Fantasy Portraits
for some time, but now I'm very happy to be able to include these gorgeous backgrounds to be used in them. Please explore the examples below and see for yourself how magical a portrait can be.Allow me to use your own photos to turn you or your child into a fairy, or a princess; or simply transport you into a magical world all your own!Take a look at some of the Read more:Fairytale
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Awesome Photo Sharing and Personalized Gifts 2008-09-20 17:32:00 PhotoFun.com offers tons of great services that can very useful to anyone who enjoys photographs, but especially to photographers and other artists. Using PhotoFun, you can share photos online with friends, and even set up your own online galleries.When you sign up for PhotoFun you will receive 100 free 4x6 photo prints and after that, each print is only 5 cents each, a pretty impressive price whe Read more:Photo
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