Edit Me! | Week 09

Lately, my mind is wandering that I find myself a bit unproductive. I have two pictures to edit for this day and I admit I am having / I had a difficult time finishing both.

This week's picture on "Edit Me!" was provided by Mandy of "A Sorta Fairytale." Every week on this meme, there is this level of difficulty, and every week, I am presented with images that are already perfect, and at some point I am always doubting myself if I can do justice with my edit.

Still, I always try my best and for this week, came up with this:




What I did -

• Using the original size provided, I made a selection around the boy, feathered the edges and cut the boy off the image. Pasting the cut image, I then moved it near the flowers.
• The parts where the boy once was, I covered by cloning the grass around. To make the circles not too noticeable, I also used the heal tool.

Then came the stage where I found myself stuck. I created a wide space and I didn't know if I'd leave it as is or if I will add some text. Obviously, I decided to add some text.

• I flipped the image horizontally, just because. :)
• I started writing the words, but couldn't find the right color for it, so I made a selection around the boy and the plants, feathered selection, made and inverse selection and desaturated the background. I did the same step to certain parts near the plant area.
• Scaled image to 640x427.
• Added the words using the fonts "Qarmic Sans" and "Miss Brooks."
• Ran the National Geographic script, flattened the image, then gave it a pass of burn tool set to shadow at 20%.

The words I used for this image was taken from "Lessons From Life" poem (was it a poem?). I have this framed copy of it in my room, but I only selected the "positive" ones, as I don't want to put any negative words in the image (even if its intention was positive - "A child who lives with ridicule learns to be timid...").

Despite the difficulty, I had a real fun time editing this image.

*** Jenn ***