{"id":967,"date":"2011-03-18T16:58:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T22:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/?p=967"},"modified":"2011-03-18T17:06:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T23:06:07","slug":"why-i-%e2%99%a5-photoshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/?p=967","title":{"rendered":"Why I  \u00e2\u2122\u00a5  Photoshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will let the photos speak for Photoshop.<\/p>\n<p>The first photo is straight from the camera without any Photoshop manipulation:<\/p>\n<p id=\"photo_h\">Damian and Lily<br \/>\n17 March 2011<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2011\/03\/Lily_Damian_17Mar2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The second photo has been processed through the Photoshop Magic Machine:<\/p>\n<p id=\"photo_h\">Damian and Lily<br \/>\n17 March 2011<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2011\/03\/Lily_Damian_17Mar2011_v2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For those interested, I used a Brightness\/Contrast layer with a gradient sunburst to create the darkened edges. Then another Brightness\/Contrast layer to beef up the brightness and the contrast of the entire photo. And then finally, a Color Balance layer to add more blue into the photo. I use layers so I have more flexibility.<\/p>\n<p>Photoshop rocks my world.<\/p>\n<p>ps. Thank you to everyone for being so supportive of my blog. It&#8217;s very very very <em>very<\/em> kind and awesome of my family and friends to encourage me so actively. I am a lucky woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will let the photos speak for Photoshop. The first photo is straight from the camera without any Photoshop manipulation: Damian and Lily 17 March 2011 The second photo has been processed through the Photoshop Magic Machine: Damian and Lily 17 March 2011 For those interested, I used a Brightness\/Contrast layer with a gradient sunburst [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}