A+Rose+by+Any+Other+Name....

Tammie Klage L603 High Tech Learning Dr. Annette Lamb Fall 2007

Digital Photography Exploration**
 * Fiesta #2:

=A Rose By Any Other Name....=

Okay...
So maybe I ought to be calling this page "by any other look" rather than by any other name!!

To edit my photos, I used IPhoto. This was a great experience for me. The software has been on my computer since I purchased it, and on my laptop too, for that matter, but because my camera came with Kodak Easy Share Software, I usually just default to it. Kodak does a good job, and suits my needs, but I wanted to expore IPhoto for this project. [|Visit IPhoto!]

The first thing that I had to do was to figure out IPhoto! There is no "Save" or "Save As" option anywhere! After exploring the Help menu, I finally figured out a plan. I had to import my original image into IPhoto. Then I had to duplicate it several times. Then I had to select an image and choose edit. If I chose an edit, crop for example, I had to perfrom the crop I wanted, CLICK crop AGAIN, and click "Done." The edit is then saved to the image I selected. I had to choose a different image to try a different edit, so that I had the different examples to post here. Normally, IPhoto just piles up all the edits made to an image, and saves the most recent version. There is a revert option to go back to the last saved image if you decide you do not like an edit. I suggest to always save an original copy of an image somewhere so that you can start over and try something different if you need or want to.

For my editing, I chose to use the picture of the open rose, looking down, as it is in the vase.

Here is the original image.



My first edit choice was to just try the general "Enhancement" option. Here is what it looked like.



Next, I decided to crop my photo, so that only the bloom was in the image.



Then I decided to try the retouch option. This option gives you a curser that if you click it over a spot in the photo it will blur it out, and if you click enough times it will get dark and seem to disappear. I tried to retouch around the lace on the table in the photo. Here is the result.



I was then finally ready to make the major changes. When I click the adjust option, I am given 8 sliders that I can adjust the brightness, contrast, saturation, temperature (amount of hot or cold colors), tint, sharpness, straightening (rotates the image), and exposure. i played with all of these until I saw the photo as I thought it looked the best. Here it is!



FInally, I played with the fun effects. I tried each of the effects on the photos below!


 * =Black and White:=**




 * =Sepia:=**




 * =Antique:=**




 * =Fade Color:=**




 * =Boost Color:=**




 * =Blurr Edges:=**



**=Matte:=**



All of these options are a lot of fun. THey could all be useful for various applications of the use of a photograph. Overall, I had a lot of fun exploring how to edit photos with IPhoto.

I did learn one other thing during this page about wiki. You have to be careful with filenames. When I export my photos from IPhoto they are all just named by number, which is fine. But... when I exported my second set, I realized there was confusion because now I had 2 files called image:4, for example. I had to go back and rename some of them so that the wiki would import the right one in the right place! In the future I will always rename all my photo files by content before I upload them.

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