the one with edited photos

Belated happy Scrapbooking Day! I didn’t do any actual scrapping yesterday. My desk is cluttered with various insane projects that I have “started so I’ll finish”.. I hope to get some scrapping challenges done later in the week but we’ll see..

The last challenge of the day on Shimelle’s blog was a bit easier in some respects but definitely out of my comfort zone. “Edit a photo”. Now.. I do not have Photoshop and I have never used anything other than Picasa for “editing” my photos. The most I do is “auto contrast” on some, maybe fill light if its awfully dark, change to black & white or crop a wee bit. Many I do nothing to. I like the natural look for the most part and really haven’t embraced the apparent fashion for the washed out overexposed vintage thing.. I really really don’t get it!! Maybe its just my general attraction to bright colours. I don’t do vintage pastelly style scrapping either. I like the bright coloured papers over the muted shades and pastel pink & cream any day.

But I do have a feature on my phone [LG cookie – no fancy pants smart phones here, thank you!] called Tunnel Effect. I kind of like it on some photos. I took a lot of phone photos last week [more on that another time] so decided to try it out on a couple

Before..

After…

Before…

After…

What do you think??  I’m undecided. I prefer the orginal with the cherry blossom and the edited one of the house because its brighter! haha! I gave it a go anyway!