Special Effects

Everyone loves special effects, right? Well my definition of everyone centers around me, according to my husband, so if you don’t like special effects be sure to let me know so he can get an ‘I told you so’ in. But back to my obsession with special effects for now. I love special effects not only in movies but also in the photographs I take. Of course I didn’t know how cool it could be until I got into digital photography, and more recently, digital manipulation. So freaking cool!

There are several special effects that I will talk about in future posts, but for now I’ll stick to the wow factor. The first digital photo printer I ever used had photo editing software included. I admit, it was nothing like the fancy, high priced, photo editing software out there, but man did it hook me…and hook me hard.

The very first special effect that resulted in my obsessive addiction to photography? I was able to turn my pictures into coloring pages. Wow! How much of a five year old am I, huh? Really though, it was so neat. Yup, when I realized how much fun that was, I started playing around with the program and pictures I’d already taken to see which ones made the best coloring pages (clearly defined objects with nice contrasting colors, if you were wondering).

From there I started to really get into editing images and I soon found all of those cool edits caused my hard drive to fragment. This fragmentation made editing my images ridiculously slow and frustrating after a bit. Fortunately, I realized how easy this was to solve with regular defragmentation. Whew.. what would I do without my addiction?

How did you get into digital photography and editing?

Photo Credit L Marie

June 15th, 2009 by birdievogel | Posted in Digital Manipulation | (0)