Mary Beth's postings tonight (see @espyetta ) describing her editing process, serious ETSOOI editing, inspired me to try to save something out of my massive fail of snowflakes from today. So, while binge watching House of Cards on netflix tonight, I took the photo that had the best snowflake and worked it as follows:
1. cropped using Aperture from larger photo taken with macro lens and tripod set up for closeup of snow that had fallen onto a black fabric I had put outside my office door.
2. Sharpened using definition and edge slider on Aperture
3. I think converted to b&w using Silver Efex, but maybe skipped this step. I think this is where I upped the contrast in that program.
4. Saved as jpg and uploaded to picmonkey on my computer.
5. In picmonkey, added winter effects of snowflakes and motion blur
6. Saved, debated posting, and then posted because even though it isn't the snowflake I wanted, I sort of liked the result.
AND, it's a 6-word-story!
Cool! Good save of snowflake image! Thanks for sharing the steps. I was trying this today too, and I think it just wasn't the right sort of snow for "that" sort of snowflake shot! Although I did get one lucky shot.
Lots of effort you put into this and interesting result! No snow here so I can't try it but I appreciate you sharing your process. I want to learn more about post processing techniques but find it overwhelming and not sure what software or apps would be the most versatile?
@redy4et What computer to you use -- if it's a mac, I'm happy to give you a list of how I started as I started very slowly, but if you use a PC, I'm clueless about those!
In cases like this its not the endresult that is the most import, its the journey to it!! Love how you described all the steps and it gives a great ETSOOI endresult!
