Today’s art for Athena and Marie’s Caturday Art Blog Hop was created from this total photo fail. The grainy, low-light photo of Misty May was taken while she was occupying my pillow. It was taken during the day with the shades down, lights out and most likely with my iPhone.
As I am a mediocre photographer, at best, and as we live in a house that is very dark without a lot of natural light, the photos I use on the blog are of a quality that most of you would reject. However, I wouldn’t even have used this one.
But with some cropping and several steps in Picasa, I was able to turn it into something I think is interesting and quite nice. But, of course, I’ll let you make up your own minds as to whether I succeeded or ended up with another photo fail.
To create this week’s art, I began by adding the pencil sketch filter to the photo followed by the comic book effect. I then used the boost filter at 3/4 strength. Next I added a pale blue, feather-edged graduated tint. Finally I set saturation at 3/4 strength and added the frame.
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And don’t forget to join us tomorrow for our Sunday Selfies Blog Hop. It’s easy and fun. You don’t need to create anything fancy. Heck, you don’t even need to wake up if you are seriously taking it easy on your Sunday. You can enter anytime after 12:01 a.m. Sunday.
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We think you did a marvelous job of recovering the photo! It turned our really nicely.
Sampy sends so many kisses to his Astrid, and we all send lots of love!
What a beautiful girl. Your mom did a super job with the effects.
(((Shoko)))
I think cat people are art people!
Noodle and crew
great job with Picasa. We have not used that before, maybe we will give it a go.
I have the exact same trouble. I wish my photography was better but I can’t have a lot of natural light coming in because I get headaches so easily. But that’s the great thing about art…cool things can come from un-usable pictures:)
Isn’t it so much fun to experiment? Way cool!
We fink it’s pawsum. Ow mommy’s not much of a fotogwaffer eever and we only hav sum nice fotos cuz of da pawsum camewas ow wunnewfual Facebook awnties bought us. So we fink yous fotos awe always gweat. Back when mommy eally kuldn’t see hers used lots of weally bad blurry fotos cuz hers didn’t know, but even so she sez any foto wiff hers babies in ’em awe good fotos.
Luv ya’
Dezi and Lexi
We like it! You’re right, the original is not so great, though Misty May is beautiful no matter what, but the art pic is really cool!
Misty May when Mom uses her iPad to take photos it’s nearly ALWAYS a photo fail. But we think your Mom did a fantastic graphic and she should be very proud of how beautiful you look in it!
Happy Caturday
~Annabelle
Me like! This blog hop is a great and crative way to use photo fails. Most online programs will let you boost the contract too to lighten the photo. I saw your comment on Melissa and Truffles. Last week I used PhotoCat and remarked how much I liked the program.
Wow, what a great job you did with this shot!!
Smileys!
Dory, Jakey, Arty & Bilbo
Looks great ! I also use Picasa !
Most excellent!
Its amazing what can be done with computers. The result is FANTABULOUS!
Kisses
Nellie
Wow! Now we can see Misty May quite well, and how lovely she looks!
Not a fail anymore, but a complete resounding success!
A photo fail that turned into a cool piece of artwork.
I think that came out great!
Cute n’ cool fur sure!
Wow! That is cool. Mommy! Go find a tutorial!
Gosh I like it……..the coloring is spectacular and the special “dot” effect makes it very interesting. Thumbs up!
Hugs, Sammy
Very nice, it looks so much better.
Good job. That is pretty.
Misty May, you have been spotted!! MOL. Nice save, Janet!
We think that’s really cool!
Purrs xx
Athena and Marie
Very creative !
Cool one. Have a super Saturday.
Best wishes Molly
NICE!
I think it looks cool! There are so many ways to save sub-par photos with digital art effects – that is something my human knows!