Happy easter, a tutorial

 Happy easter everyone. I hope you have a lovely weekend with your family. I made this coming-out-of-an-easter-egg photo as easter greeting this year. I was inspired by the awesome works from Joel Robison you should check out his work, its amazing. He made a tutorial on how he creates his masterpieces. This is a Picmonkey tutorial, and if you use this link you will get a free day of premium.
*Click like to see more for the tutorial*

photo manipulations

As you might know I really like manipulated photos. I'd say photoshopped, but I don't really agree with that term since you can edit photos in other programs (that do not cost 600 euros) too. Anyway I thought I'd show you some of my own works that I have not shown you before. These are all made in Picmonkey, and sometimes I used Microsoft paint too. Yay for free programs. I'll make a short note at every picture about how I created them.

-for this one I opened one photo in picmonkey and than added the same photo as an overlay. I fliped it and then I used the circular paint/eraser brush to make this pattern. It's kind of trippy, I like it.

This is a photo collage, also made using the overlay option. I used 6 photos on this one. It kind of reminds me of surrealistic art.

This is my lovely boyfriend Tim, don't worry he wasn't falling for real. If you'd like to learn how to achieve this effect take a look at my tutorial on levitation photography.

I copied this concept from a photo I am unable to find. So I'm really sorry I can't give credit for the idea. I used Microsoft paint to make the triangle shapes, then uploaded those in picmonkey as overlays and adjusted them a bit. 

for this one I used the tint option in picmonkey to add the color. I really like the rainbow stuff in this one. 

Once again I used paint for the triangle shapes, and uploaded them to picmonkey as an overlay. 

So I hope you guys like my stuff, in case you do you might like to follow my photography board on pinterest.

make your own galaxy photo with picmonkey

hey ho, I'm here today to learn you how to make your own super fancy galaxy photo. It is not that hard, and it uses picmonkey, which is free, so you don't have any reasons left not to spice up your holiday snapshots with some stars. (using this link, gives you a free day picmonkey royal)
(click like to see more for the tutorial)

double exposures

 

I love double exposure photos. I'd really love to try this with film once, but for now digital editing is good enough. These photos are from a little photo shoot with Tim, and the overlays from several different occations, the first overlay is a scanned dia from my grand-aunt, the second is from a trip with Tim last summer, the third is just a little flower in the grass, the forth is from my trip with Tim to Brussels, and the fifth is our wood storage in the garden.
I had been experimenting with buildings as overlay this afternoon. And I made them all black and white. I have made some before, but those where in color and had several overlays, instant of one. If you like this, take a look at the tutorial I wrote about double exposure (for picmonkey). It is not that hard and it has great results.

I can make up my own nonsense, thanks a lot

This quote isn't an actual quote because it is what I heard however the actual lyric of the song. hehe but I do like the text so hooray to misunderstanding. And for the background image I tried the hipster triangle thing also notice the galaxy print in the sky.

If any of you want to participate on my postcard project, please do. I'd love to send you all a letter/postcard but I can't if you don't give me your address.

DIY - learn to fly

I'm sorry I can't teach you how to fly, but I can teach you to look like flying on a photograph.

the first time I saw levitation photography here I was in love, I just had to do it. So I asked google how to do it and it gave me this roundup. But since I don't have photoshop I had to figure out myself how to do it on picmonkey, the free version. Yes you can still do awesome things with the free version. A few days later I got outside with Tim and took some pictures. you can see the other one's here
And now I'm going to share my findings and thoughts about it with you.
click 'like to see more' for the tutorial.

overlays

Yesterday the great news that the option to make your own overlays is free again on Picmonkey. This is my favorite option, with a little creativity you can make really cool effects, such as galaxy hair. so I was quite happy about it. if you want to know how I did it take a look at this tutorial.

-DIY- double, triple and multiply exposure

I have allways been amazed by the awesome effect double exposure gives. Originally this effect is achieved by exposing one film twice, now we are in the digital age we can fake this effect with some more control. I used Picmonkey to make these two. Click the like to see more button for the tutorial.

playing with photo editing

I'm really interested in photo manipulation. and I would love to have and learn to handle a open editor like adobe photoshop but for now I'll keep up with pickmonkey. from these I like number 3 most. It are little experiments I did just do something and look how it ends up. Here is what I did:
1. this is the original photo I took in our garden.
2. I added a circle as overlay, choose white and faded it at 50%
3. I added a square overlay, erased a circle and some leaves of the flower so it pops out
4. for this one I used the Warhol function
5. I whitened the teeth of the flower and after that I added some mascara
6. here i used the posterize option and faded it quite much

I think I'll make a roundup about nice editing soon.

-DIY- multi-color your world

learn to use picmonkey to make this kind of collages, photos or to photoshop your dress/shoes/hair a different color. Picmonkey is a free online photo editing program. tutorial after the break