vintage yellow
out-of-focus #5
spent this evening experimenting. i think i’m in love with photoshop, even when it frustrates me to no end (with all the endless and unknown possibilities…). as i’ve mentioned before, i really don’t know what i’m doing. i really don’t understand what everything even means. i have no idea what i’m getting right or completely ruining. i also have trouble remembering what i’ve done to a photo to make it look as it does from one time to the next!
but… i love, love, love vintage feeling photos like the ones above. it’s a kind of art that i want to create… and someday, hopefully soon, i’ll have a better understanding of how to create it with a few slides and clicks of the mouse in photoshop.
what inspired me tonight? clicking through flickr, i was thinking about all the wonderful photos collected there. i clicked to my favorites and noticed the overall feel was the lighter, vintage, worn colors. (click to see for yourself.) i cannot get enough of all these photos… the pinks and whites of this one… the faded lines and softness of this photo… the feeling and pinks and greens in this photo… and the blues of this photo fill me with wishes for the same beauty in the photos i create. so i again opened a the viewer to find some photos to feed my desires of creating… so tell me, what do you think? are there any colors off? colors on? are the photos too light? too processed? any photos you suggest i add to my collection of favorites?
There’s a lovely nostalgic feeling to these photographs, Alicia. It’s like going through old photo albums when the photographs were taken on film and processed in a lab. I find it fascinating that through Photoshop (I love that program, too), we can tweak our photographs to be “perfect” (perfect colour, tone, exposure, removing all flaws) or experiment wildly, creating entirely new worlds with a click of a mouse. It’s artistic freedom. And flickr is endlessly inspiring, isn’t it? It makes me happy knowing that so many people out there are finding beauty - creating beauty - and sharing it one another. Anyway, these photographs of yours reminds me of Memory - as if I had a memory of walking in a garden on a summers day.
I don’t think you needed to mention that you don’t really know what you’re doing in photoshop.
I love seeing and reading about your learning adventure…and through it I am learning myself.
love this too! it’s that wonderful faded look color again. i should do this–browse through flickr for inspiration. if i had a faster computer, i would do it more. when i’m in someone’s flickr photostream, it takes forever to change from picture to picture as i browse. so frustrating!
i like your experimenting ways!
Beautiful, and thanks for the links for inspiration. I’m brand new to photoshop (definitely newer than you are, by the looks of it!), and relatively new to digital, having only switched over from film just before my son was born. It’ll be fun to watch what you do.
Oh! I’m in love! Your work is amazing, to say the least, and very inspiring!
I love these–I’m always a little afraid to make things too faded or out of focus–never can get it quite perfect–but this is gorgeous!