Fun with photoshop and blogging from my phone

First I was bored and created a little Photoshop tutorial for myself. So I took this old photo of Lo and decided to attempt an oldtimey feel to it using a sepia handtouched feel. This is the same style photographers use in wedding photos alot and I wanted to try it. I only had so many photos available to me at me "worksite" so I had to use what I had. This one is very dark but I wanted to see how the eyes and lips would come out. After several attempts, using hue/ saturation and alot of curves and graident mapping, I was able to come up with a not so bad looking photo. The question is does it look better then the original? The real challenge with this one is that the background is very dark and she is wearing white. You can hardly see the side of her head and her face is shiney. Here is the end result. I think you can click on them to see them in their real sizes. Quite honestly I am forced to amuse myself these days and there is only so much reading one can do in 8 hours, 5 days a week. Let me know what you think of these and if you want me to touch up a photo or two - I can probably do that. I am not sure how I feel these came out. I like them but I am not a big fan of this coloring technique. Maybe I need to practice a bit more but I think it has to do with the lighting and contrast you have in the photo you actually use as your test subject.

I was not a big fan of her school photos this year, and yes I think she is cute in all her photos but this year she looked weird. So I also attempted to use the same technique and apply it to a professionally done photo and see how it would come out. Here is the original. and the touched up one.

I have been experimenting with phone blogging. I may actually change out my blog to incorporate the new one. I can use the camera on my phone which will make for some very interesting blogging! Or not. Here is a link to my experimental blog.