Diane and I were vacationing in Portugal a few years ago and relaxing outside of our apartment. She spied this dormer, as seen in the first photo, and took a quick shot. In my opinion it is an “OK” shot but it needs some editing help if it is to become a great photo.
The second picture shows what a few minutes of thoughtful editing can do (any photo editing software can be used). In this case I cropped slightly, enriched the colors a tad, but the most important change was to straighten the dormer.
That might have been the end of my story, but a couple of years later Diane was wanted to get some note cards from Shutterfly and thought the dormer shot might make a good photo for the front panel of the card.
We followed through with that idea, so the third photo shows you how the dormer shot has been re-invented and used as a note-card subject.
Do you have any shots that could be tuned into personalized note cards?
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April 17th, 2012 at 4:39 pm
Love the dormer shot, its so cute. I tend to use the sraighten tool a lot!
I really like this idea to use as the front of a notecard. I have used some of my pictures on the frronts of cards I buy from Shutterfly. Its a really fun personal idea.
Thanks for sharing this Earl. I was just going to email you to see how you have been – then i saw this blog from you.
Well done
April 19th, 2012 at 1:48 pm
Last year I made personalized cards for each one of my daughter’s teachers in elementary school for her to sign and say thank you as she was moving on to middle school. I took the picture of the first day of school for each grade and used it as the cover for each teacher. Needless to say they loved it.
August 8th, 2012 at 6:20 pm
I agree and love to do this myself. Great article. Thank you my friend!