Here’s a useful post (with several useful links) about editing images for a blog post from Helen. Please don’t like or comment on my reblog, hop on over to Journey to Ambeth and say hi!
This is a photograph I took the other day on my way home from the supermarket. I thought it quite atmospheric, the way the sky was reflected in the water, the boat and two men silhouetted against the rippling clouds.
I published a post a little while ago about using stock photography, and another about using images on books and blog posts, and then talked a little bit about using our own photography where possible. It’s quite easy to manipulate images to create different effects, so I thought I’d have a play with this one:
This is a marker effect,
This is a watercolour sponge effect,
And this is a chalk drawing effect with the edges blurred, making it look like an old photograph.
Each of these effects took just minutes to do, and I did them in Microsoft Word, saving the altered images as JPEGs. I think…
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Suzie Speaks 
Thanks for the reblog, Suzie! 😀
Always welcome my lovely!
Yes, I like taking photographs but I’m not very good at it. I spent a lot of different lenses but in the end it comes down to the person on the shutter button rather than the lenses. I believe I can do all sorts of magic things with my Canon – just don’t know how to. Oh well, just muddle along.
The Bloke has a Canon and he watches loads of tutorials to help with various ideas on settings – do you want me to ask if he knows of any useful links?
All these settings and I don’t know what to do with them. I have just borrowed a pile of books from the local library so I”ll have a look through them. But if I do need real help it would be good to be able to ask.
I’ll ask him tonight and let you know!
Thank you
Very welcome!