Below that is an exercise in colorizing a black and white photo. Hey, I think it worked at least as well as the colorized old films that sometimes turn up on TV. I presume you recognize Bette Davis; her co-star here is Herbert Marshall.
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Elements allows you to do a lot of perfectly normal things with photos of people, from the basic Red Eye fix, to removing skin blemishes and correcting skin tones. Here are some examples of stranger things you can do: first is some cosmetic surgery, giving my brother hair, plus a nose job and young skin. The hair I think turned out rather well, the rest is over the top. For a more conservative make-over, where I added a little hair and straightened the nose, move your mouse over the image. Below are the source files for this virtual make-over. The image of Anne has been improved in a sane way, mouse over to see the original. Below that is an exercise in colorizing a black and white photo. Hey, I think it worked at least as well as the colorized old films that sometimes turn up on TV. I presume you recognize Bette Davis; her co-star here is Herbert Marshall. |
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Here's a group of portrait shots that have been processed in a perfectly normal sort of way, but then I added some rather outrageous frames to them. There are, of course, more sensible choices. The top two were created using Elements built in frame features, by two different routes. For my brother I used Elements Content feature to add a leopard skin background, then I used layer effects to make the bevels (I did the same thing to improve Anne's relation to her frame). The one of me below was a frame I created in its entirety using filters and layer effects.  |
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And here's a sequence of photos where I tinkered with myself. First I thought I would make the tree and I a little straighter, then decided to go a little further and tried giving myself a bit of a coquettish look by tilting my head fetchingly. But I was still rather chubbier than I would like to be, so I decided to make myself skinnier instead. I also tried out the reverse of colorizing: here we have two different methods of de-colorizing, plus doing it using the little trick of leaving some sections in full color. The advertising folks seem kind of fond of this technique these days, apparently they think it makes their product have more pizzazz. If it is good enough for them, I figured I would give myself some of that special snazz.
Finally, there's a somewhat more normal operation, wherein I decided to improve a photo that was rather nice of my niece, but you don't really notice that, because the background is so very cluttered. Aside from cropping I also tidied up the floor and fixed some skin blemishes, removed the cool color cast to warm things up, and enlarged the real subject. |
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