Photo editing

Right its time to start editing pictures. Im gonna try and use two different tools out of curiosity and just to see which one is user friendly. I opened Sumo paint and worked around with all the various colour changes. I found it very easy to use but I was going in blind and just playing around with the colour of the picture.

The first picture I used was of a photo of the old Bandon Railway station. I took it on a very wet and dark day so the picture is cold( reflecting the feeling that day) I tried to warm the picture up but only the red brick came out and the tarmac remained cold. I then tried to clear the picture but it just did not work out for me.

Here is the original photo

And here is my attempt at warming it up

The Photo editor automatically cut the picture as you see above. I left it as it because I did not want the sky to be seen.

The next photo I took was from a book detailing the history of Patrick Street in Cork. It is of the Fr Mathew stature taken early in the 1900s.

My aim for this photo is to be able to get more clarity from the photo. I also took a picture of the statue as it is today just for the sake of viewing what is still the same from the same angle.

It took a while for the Adobe photoshop trial to download. So as I waited I looked around to see what all the fus was with photoshop. Pretty interesting stuff. I used Final Cut Pro last year for a project we had in college. I editing a 30 second ad and found messing around with the buttons to be great just as long as i saved the previous material. With FCP as with ant editing software it takes time to get to grips with what the software can do. A lot of experimenting is needed

I tried using photoshop but will need more time than I can afford in order to understand what it can do.