my boom boom " s o m e t h i n g . d i f f e r e n t "

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To begin with, all of my pictures are edited in Adobe Photoshop, I have more experience with it and i feel more comfortable than using Picasa. It is quite a big process for each picture so i won't be able to go in details but here's a rough idea to what i did to each one:

*sharpening//color balance// contrast was applied to every picture*

//.edit01 - I duplicated the original layer, I turned the duplicate black&white and then with a layer mask I let the color from the one underneath come out. With a big soft brush I further added more yellow around the girl. I manually blurred and pixelated the bottom of the picture, but it is a very subtle effect. And last but not least i added text. [the picture was also cropped]

//.edit02 - Very thin crop of the picture, I played abit with the colors to make it more lively. With the selection tool I made a barcode-like selection and I used lens blur to blur it.

//.edit03 - Image cropped again, turned 180 degrees, black&white, and with the selection tool I duplicated only certain parts of the original layer and i moved/rotated them over the original layer.

//.edit04 - Image cropped, transformed to black&white and I played with the curves after for that "tint" effect. Furthermore, I used color brushes big and small, sharp and soft for more details.

//.edit05 - Image black&white + tinting + text.

//.edit06 - Image black&white + selection tool + lens blur outside the selection made + smudge tool at the bottom of the selected box.

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All the effects I tried turned more or less very successful, and I almost equally like all the pictures. I am not such a big fan of black&white, neither of sepia, I used to be and I had played with this effect in the past a lot, but now that my camera can analyze so many colors I don't see the point to waste them. My favorite edited picture is edit02 because I like to play with composition and cropping the picture in formats that not everybody is used to look at and because I really like how the colors turned out. My strongest picture in my opinion is edit01 because of the emphasis on one color and because of the message sent through the picture + text.