Thanks to a snow day I had time to play this morning. I followed Ashley's processing steps with adjustments. I love how the final edit significantly improved lighting and color as well as enhanced the details of the frozen fruit. I've learned so much in just 2 weeks. So far, my favorite new-to-me has been using the high pass filter and the solid color fill.
Question: Does anyone else lose some of the vibrance and color when posting an image on your blog? Any suggestions as to why or how to fix? Is it something I'm doing or not doing?
Awesome job! Sometimes when you post onto blogs, etc you will lose a little bit of the quality! There are some actions that help from MCP but I still notice a little bit of loss.
Blessings,
Jill
Posted by: Jill | January 20, 2011 at 08:35 AM
I like the detail and brightness. I notice that uploading to flickr I get the same... so I always do a contrast and saturation tweak once it's in flickr to get the vibrance back. And then sometimes I like that it's muted... and I leave it. :)
Posted by: Winn | January 20, 2011 at 09:40 AM
Love how you made the colors of the fruit pop!
Posted by: Kathleen | January 20, 2011 at 09:49 AM
Beautiful job - how are you posting your image? I found that until I switched to flickr. I don't trust uploading my photos any other way now.
Posted by: Ashley Sisk | January 20, 2011 at 10:31 AM
So you post your image to flickr first? And then to your blog? I have only used flickr to share photos with groups.
Jill Conyers
My Blog: http://jillconyers.typepad.com/
How often in life we complete a task that wasbeyond the capability of the person we werewhen we started it. ~Robert Brault
Posted by: jillconyers | January 20, 2011 at 11:00 AM
Love the pop of color of the fruit, gorgeous edit! xx
Posted by: Love and Life | January 20, 2011 at 12:40 PM
Looks gorgeous! The fruit really stands out now. Good question about the vibrancy/color - I've noticed other bloggers using Flickr for their photos and wondered why.
Posted by: Sarah @ 2paws Designs | January 20, 2011 at 02:00 PM
Thanks Sarah. Do you mean they upload to Flickr and then post the images on their blog? Trying to figure out how this works so I can see if it helps.
Jill Conyers
My Blog: http://jillconyers.typepad.com/
How often in life we complete a task that wasbeyond the capability of the person we werewhen we started it. ~Robert Brault
Posted by: jillconyers | January 20, 2011 at 02:56 PM
I haven't had as much as a problem since I calibrated my monitor, but I do notice a marked loss of quality on some images, and exposure can get hinky too!
Lovely Edit!
Posted by: Mommy2Four | January 20, 2011 at 03:06 PM
Gorgeous gorgeous..the fruit looks so yummy! I always use FLICKR to post photos on my blog...
Posted by: Tara | January 20, 2011 at 03:26 PM
Great job editing! Sure looks yummy now!
I also upload my pics to flickr before blogging them. You can either connect your blog and flickr together (in flickr settings) and then you'd be able to pick 1 picture and under Actions click "Blog it" and write your blog post.
Another thing is when you're writing your blog post and you're ready to add your picture, go to flickr, select the pic, click on "share this" then pick "grab html code" select which size you want, copy & paste the code into your blog article.
Posted by: Michelle | January 20, 2011 at 04:22 PM
beautiful, I love the colors of the fruit!
Posted by: Allison Hoffman | January 20, 2011 at 04:25 PM
Gorgeous edit, it makes me want to have some fruit.
Posted by: Linda | January 20, 2011 at 04:30 PM
Big difference! Great job!!!
Posted by: Courtney | January 20, 2011 at 05:11 PM
Thanks Michelle. Ill give flickr a try.
Jill Conyers
My Blog: http://jillconyers.typepad.com/
How often in life we complete a task that wasbeyond the capability of the person we werewhen we started it. ~Robert Brault
Posted by: jillconyers | January 20, 2011 at 06:39 PM
great SOOC but the edit just pops love it
Posted by: Sandra (Dynamo) | January 20, 2011 at 08:27 PM
Great edit.
Posted by: Sarah | January 20, 2011 at 08:32 PM
great job. i love your edit. makes me want a smoothie even more now.
Posted by: Joni | January 20, 2011 at 09:17 PM
What a difference! Great edit...thanks for the info on Flickr too...had no idea!
Posted by: julie | January 20, 2011 at 11:32 PM
I've never noticed any difference when I post pics to my blog - and if the second of your shots has lost any vibrancy, it must be techicolour in the original! It looks so bright and 'alive'!
Posted by: Mel | January 22, 2011 at 01:42 PM