Monday, October 02, 2006

Memory Manager Rocks

I have been watching my husband, Mike (who is a pro photographer) edit photos in Photoshop to make his photo's a bit better and ready for printing. He can make a so-so picture look like a magazine layout and I am impressed all the time. I take lots of pictures too and decided to see if Creative Memories Memory Manager 2 could do the same things and make the ordinary snapshot look better. So here are my results.

Original Picture - taken outside around 6:30pm of one of my friend's 4 year old daughters blowing bubbles. Cute picture well worth saving for the album.

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After loading the picture from the memory card into the program, I cropped the photo in tighter and adjusted the color to be a bit warmer, deepened the contrast and shadows and in about 10 minutes I had this picture, now looking like the "rock star" photographer took it and it could be put in a frame on the wall instead of just in the album.

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From my perspective the $40 for the program is well worth it. I did everything quickly and easily and spent the evening editing photographs from the afternoon and am ready to layout an album page on the girls bubble blowing adventure.

I have challenged my Husband (said "rock star photgrapher) to see if in the same time frame he can do the same thing to the original photo. I'll have to post his attempt.

Want to learn how to do this? You can find out at my digital workshops or schedule a personal class!