The wonders of photoshop

I can't remember a shit about when i started using photoshop or why i used it. My guess is that it was afew years back when i saw people editting nice pictures. Today i must say photoshop is almost like make-up, one can really do wonders with this little software.

When i editted my first picture it feels so great but now when i look at that particular picture i have to admit i feel like laughing my ass off, it looks HORRIBLE!! Of course back then it looks 'great' lah! This goes to show my skills have improved!

This is one of the first pictures that i editted i think.....JESUS!!!



I guess for those who don't do any editting they will say looking good just because u editted your picture is silly. It's like hiding behind a mask. True for some but not all. In my case i just love editting pictures sometimes when i have the urge or mood. I edit my pictures to make them look unique and its like something of a hobby nowadays.

As for those who edit their pictures, some are merely using them to 'show off' or make themselves look good. Nothing wrong with that i think, everyone wants to look good even if its only on a picture. I can't decide if i look better in pictures or real-life, there are people who say i look better in real life. Anyway its not for me to judge this.

Next comes the question, how do i edit my pictures? I don't know about others but for myself before i edit a picture i have to imagine something great about the plain picture. No matter how plain a picture is, i try to visualize or imagine it to be very nice and outstanding. In doing so i get a rough idea of how i want the picture to look like. There's really no particular methods or skills i use to edit my pictures. I'm too green in photoshop to possess any skills anyway. Once i get the idea how i want the final product to look like, i explore and try everything possible. Sometimes it takes 10minutes, other times it takes like an hour.

There's one golden rule for editting pictures: "Don't over edit it". Sometimes the result is already great and nice but we tend to try to be funny or greedy and edit somemore thus screwing up everything.

Photoshop has certainly become more and more popular over the years and i seem to see editted pictures everywhere especially on friendster. There are even girls who use photoshop to add a 'eye linear' to their pictures to make their eyes bigger or give it a gothic look!

I feel one day i might just end up having a designer job editting and designing stuffs with photoshop. And that includes everything, websites, pictures, banners, ads, bla! This is the only one thing i like in my entire IT course - website designing.

People have been asking me if i went to a studio to take these pictures, but no i took them myself using my usual digital camera in my own bloody room and editting them. And no, my skills sucks, these are really very ordinary editting, u haven seen the pros yet! Slowly but surely i'm improving, and compare to the picture above, its a big difference!

Original and editted (my camera has the function to snap pictures in such color modes)