My hear sank when I saw the prompt from Steve this week.
Selfie.
Oh no
I hate selfies as they are so unflattering. So I got my daughter to take this photo of me when I got all dolled up for my son’s graduation dinner.
It is time to move on from the selfie I have been using as it was before my marriage break up. I did the usual thing and went and got a radical hair cut – I cut all my curls of.
So I wont go into all the gory details of my editing to save an overload of images of my face. I have narrowed it down to 2 photos.
As you can see I got rid of the wrinkles and mottled skin tones and blacked out the background to soften my face.
Then I used these great app that I found out through another wonderful blogger called Glaze. Here you can find some more great photos with this app:
http://movethechair.wordpress.com/
It gives an oil painting affect and best of all it is free. So I thought I would go for an oil painting. I love watching the Antiques Road Show and look at all the portraits that are centuries old. So here is my version.
So I am asking which version is your favourite.
The photoshop version or the oil painting.
Thanks for your imput.
Thanks for visiting.
Snap & Zap: Let Me Take A 100 Year Old #Selfie…
For each Snap & Zap I will suggest a new theme so take a new photo or use an existing photo and edit it with any software you like, so…
- Create a new post showing the original
- What edits have you made?
- What software/techniques have you used?
- Link back to the current week’s page
The theme for this “Snap & Zap…” is Selfie.
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Brilliant! Not so scary after all, was it? And I bet You had fun. It’s prompted me to go ahead and change my avatar now too!
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LOL. Yes I did have fun trying to find ways to make me look 20 years younger. 😀
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I like both – each gives me a different feeling. I don’t see a choice for both so I didn’t vote ;-( Nice photo! Helen
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Thanks. You have the same problem as I do. Which one?????????? 😀
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I voted for the top picture…I think. The voting worked OK
Actually I really like the untouched one best. You are sooooo brave. But it is wonderful to see you in the flesh. 🙂 About those wrinkles………you have no idea about wrinkles. lol
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Thanks. I hate looking in the mirror and put my make up on in 5 minutes flat. It was time to update my avatar. 😀
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Raewyn I adore the glaze app, but not so much on people. You look lovely – just as you are hun in the first photo.
Pleased to see that Steve has been inspired to change his toon pic too! 😀
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Thanks Amanda. I have used the Photoshop image – that was more popular in the poll. 😀
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I like all of them and you look great as you are, my friend. I don’t know how to do anything to change a photo, but your work always looks great.
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Thanks so much. I love your stamps. 😀
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I voted for the photoshop one!
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That is the one I have used for my avatar. Thanks for voting. 😀
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I like both, Raewyn!
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Thanks. I have changed my avatar now. More up to date. 😀
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Hi Raewyn! I Love the new photo of you. I’m sorry that I could not vote. I like both of the choices equally.
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Thanks. The Photoshop image won the poll. 👍😍
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Selfie! looks god! Check out my take on selfies! http://bit.ly/1uS8v0C
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