Connie May 14th, 2008

In the first post, I highlighted Katharine’s beautiful, abstract of Peacock Feathers created with ACDSee Photo Manager. In this post, I’ve invited her to share how her creative use of ACDSee Photo Manager has evolved, resulting in a variety of gorgeous works of art!

Katharine explains how she got started:

My first venture into “altering” my photos was with the “pixel explosion” effect and I have to admit, I went a little pixel explosion crazy! It was just so much fun to “explode” an image and then increase the contrast and play around with the hue adjuster to change the colors.

“Gallery Dancing Peacock” is an abstract created by using “Pixel Explosion” as well as the “Mirror” effect and then intensifying the contrast and coloring.

Then I started playing around with the effect called “Colored Edges” and I loved the textured appearance it gives. I don’t think this effect works well with most photos, but for some, it is the perfect touch.

“Southwestern Recollections” is a combination of “Pixel Explosion”, “Colored Edges” and “Mirror” effects with some dramatic changes in contrast and color adjustments. I loved how the Colored Edges effect gave the texture and appearance of a sand painting.

“Contours” is another effect that I have a lot of fun with sometimes, it’s great for creating posters. It took me awhile to find anything I liked using the “Furry Edges” effect on but when I finally did, I was beyond ecstatic! It was the perfect finishing touch to one of my all time favorite abstract creations, adding just the right amount of texture.

“You Tell Me” is probably one of the images I’ve had the most fun with. It was also my first experience using the “Furry Edges” effect. Who would have ever thought the finished version started from a weed growing out of the sidewalk!

“May I Have This Dance” is a combination of the “Mirror”, “Colored Edges” and “Furry Edges” effects, an example of how I use a little bit of this, that and everything.

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Connie October 7th, 2007

Take a look at the slide show on the right under the About box. I’m going to show you how it easy it is to do.

You can create a Sendpix album in ACDSee Photo Manager 9, 10 or ACDSee Pro 2 to share your photos with family & friends. And it also creates an html code to create a slideshow on your blog or website.

Create an Album -> Next

Enter a name for your Album -> Next

Browse to your photos or layouts

select & add them

multiples can be added at once

Next -> Send (uploads your album)

An email will be sent to the email address you had given & there will be an html code in it.

You can copy & paste that into your blog to create a slideshow of your photos/pages. If your blog uses widgets then it’s really easy to create a text widget with the code. Please ask if you have questions on how to do that.

And link us to your slideshows - we’d love to see them.

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Connie September 23rd, 2007

Recently I saw Thomas Hawk’s Principles & Guidelines for Photo Walking which are excellent. He has some great ideas & his photos are incredible. It prompted me to take my camera out. I can see where it would be helpful to do this with a group of people because you would see other’s perspectives on capturing photos. What a great way to learn!

Then today I saw a link to the America at Home project that I had read about. They have neat challenges that may inspire you. They have a list of Pro Photo Tips that are very helpful!

So would you like to see the results of my photo walk? It was a gorgeous fall day here in Minnesota. All of these were edited in ACDSee Pro 2.

• This is my favorite photo of the afternoon & they don’t even know I took it! I like the shadows of the leaves on their backs.

• I love ladybugs! My Canon S3IS totally rocks with macro! I love it! I was reading & noticed this ladybug.

• I used the shadows/highlights tool in ACDSee Pro 2 to lighten this photo. It’s maybe not the best photo, but the parts underneath the ladybug are pretty amazing. Do you like the photo or no?

• I love the textures in this photo & the brilliant color of the pin oak!

• and my husband was grinding bolts off. It reminded me of my childhood when I’d watch my dad or grandpa weld or do fascinating things like this. And we wonder why their clothing gets riddled with holes?

Do you go photo walking? Link us to your photos!

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Connie August 19th, 2007

As online photo services shift & change, it’s important for you to be able to move your photos & possibly even back them up online at another site. I rec’d a few emails from Yahoo! photos about their decision to close that service in favor of Flickr.

It made this article by Lifehacker quite pertinent. They provide information about Migratr, a freeware app for moving your photos & metadata from one sharing service to another.

I have about 8 yrs worth of digital photos at Shutterfly.com Unfortunately, to get them back I would need to pay for their CD burning service, but it’s a nice backup if I ever need it. And there other services are great and their unlimited storage can’t be beat!)

Where do you have most of your online photos at?

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