Fix-It Friday #5

It's Fix-It Friday #5! Our weekly event when we take a "not-so-good" photo, give it to our contributors and then sit back in amazement when we see the fix-its they come up with. You can browse through the beautiful edits that our contributors have submitted this week...and then you can play along with us as well!

This week's photo came from Susan Keller, who told us that this photo of her son was taken while they were on the beach and they realized that they had forgotten the matches they needed to light a fire to make hot cocoa. Her son was in the middle of having a very "pouty moment." :)

Once the photo is edited though, it is just too beautiful to call it "Mr. Pouty" so we're going to go with a more elegant title of "Contemplation."


Here are our contributor's take on how they would fix this photo, "Contemplation":

1) Please click on each photo or contributor's name to take you to a special page where they have explained the steps they took to enhance this photo.

2) Several of our contributors sent in more than one enhanced version of this photo! When you click on their name, it will take you to a page that will show you all of the edited photos they sent to us.

3) Even if you don't own these photo-editing programs, be prepared to learn so much about how to edit your photos. Many fix-it steps are repeatable in a lot of different photo editing programs. Our contributors are just a wealth of information!

Contributor #1 - Amy Locurto

co-founder of I ♥ Faces

(using the free online editing program, Picnik)

Contributor #2 - Boybarian Dad
(using the free online photo editing program, Picnik)






Contributor #3 - Susan Keller
(Photoshop and Lightroom)








Contributor #4 - Jodi Friedman
(Photoshop; Using a special technique called "Stretch the Canvas")






Contributor #5 - Andrea Riley
(using Photoshop Elements; includes a special "Stretch the Canvas" tutorial for PSE)






Contributor #6 - Elaine Heasley
(Lightroom)





Contributor #7 - Julie Rivera
(Photoshop)





Contributor #8 - Marshall Garlington
(Photoshop CS3)

Contributor #9 - Teresa Norris
(Photoshop CS2)




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And now here is your chance to play along as well!

Head on over to our Flickr group and download the photo of "Contemplation" to your computer. Take your time and use the photo program that you own to make beautiful changes to this photo (anything you want...just fix it up as wonderfully as you can.) Then post this photo on your blog. You can post as many versions of this photo in your post as you'd like. Feel free to go to town and have fun with it! (This is not a contest...this is just for fun and to learn more about how to edit photos.)

If you have the time, you might also want to list the photo editing program that you used to enhance the photo and instructions as to how you fixed your photo. The other participants really enjoy this!

For your Mr. Linky name (this name doesn't have to be short since there won't be as many entries in this Mr. Linky) you can even put your name and the name of the photo editing program you used:

For Example: theArthurClan - PS CS3

After you do all that, head back to our website and link your post into our Mr. Linky below (you can grab our Friday Fix-It graphic for your post if you'd like to use it.) It will be wonderful to see what you all come up with for this photo!

{Please, please, please don't link in any other photos to this Mr. Linky. This Mr. Linky is here only for the use of those who decide to play along with our "Contemplation" photo.}

(This special Mr. Linky will be up for a few days so you should have plenty of time to fix up the photo and still be able to enter it for everyone to see.)

Thanks for joining in on "Fix-It Friday"...have fun!

~Angie & Amy

co-founders of I ♥ Faces