Central Plateau, North Island

Central Plateau, North Island
View from a friend's farm

Friday 15 August 2014

Photo Processing Fun with “Lightzone”

 

I recently loaded a free photo processing program,  “ Lightzone” and am learning what is has , how to use it all, and wonder if  will I ever need  or get to use everything it has!!!

A few photos from my collection, with processing to enhance, beautify, or alter to the extreme.

Mt Tongariro, with the ash plume, taken a few  weeks ago.

Mt Tongariro   Lightzone PP

Sunrise one morning, January 2013

Sunrise, LIghtzone PP

The Coastline, South Otago, January 2009

South Otago Coastline Lightzone PP

Quotation of the day,  from C S Lewis

“You are never too old to set another goal

or to dream a new dream”

Greetings from Jean

21 comments:

Janet said...

Fun colours!

Leeanne said...

Gee Nancy amazing photos!

camp and cottage living said...

Isn't it fun to play with your photos? These are gorgeous, Jean.

Nancy J said...

Lots of fun, and I have just realised the fun photo of the sunrise is almost the same as the header, probably taken the same morning. So much to learn with this new program, I can see something will have to take the very back seat for a while. Cheers, Jean

FlowerLady Lorraine said...

What fun you had! Colors are so mood changing and we are blessed to have so many variations in life.

Love the quote.

Have a GREAT weekend ~ Love and hugs ~ FlowerLady

Carol Mattingly said...

I think you did a fine job with that Jean. Beautiful images.

Georgia said...

Enjoy! Love your quote today! G

TexWisGirl said...

it makes them look like oil paintings. :)

Barb said...

I get a kick out of playing with the apps, too. I really like the coastline one. Hoping you and Hugh are feeling better.

KB said...

Wow, the volcanic plume one is stunning!

Nancy J said...

Thanks for all your words, I so enjoy and appreciate your comments, this was a lot of fun, huge experimental stage right now, "Lightzone" is a free download, and from what I have read, no time limit. The link was on "Ugly Hedgehog", email me or leave a request if you would like the correct one. Cheers,Jean

Jenn Jilks said...

I've been having some fun with an app that changes photos to sort of paintings! It's an interesting creative endeavour, isn't it?!
I do love the photos!

Jim said...

Someone is having FUN here! You will have a blast with this Jean.....you can create any effect you wish....or not.

eileeninmd said...

Jean, your images are beautiful. Looks like fun playing around with the program..Love the quote, enjoy your day and the week ahead!

Eggs In My Pocket said...

Very nice! and very creative! Love your quote!

Michaele said...

Well you are just having way too much fun with your new toy. I like the last one the best : )

Our photos said...

Very special, those colors !

Karen said...

Oh I love them Jean. They are dreamy looking!

Lindsjö taxar said...

Fun job! I have Picasa but also Photshop 11 I have to learn more about it. We will meet again for Learning PS this autumn the same Group from our photo course.
M/

Tanya said...

Photo processing is fun, but I wondered if I was 'cheating' and if I could just take a photo correctly from my camera then I wouldn't need to rely on post processing. A photographer commented that post processing takes skill and an eye also and just being able to do it is a talent in itself. That took away my reservations about 'tweaking' a picture.

Here I Am Carrie said...

It's an whole nother world of photography when you start playing with photos and the changes you can make. I have windows 8 as well as my iPod and I love all the free photo apps you can use to do so many things with your photos. I just finally found one for adding quotes to my photos. It was free for one day. When the app is open and ready I just shake my iPod and a quote comes up and I just keep shaking til I get a quote I want to use then pick one of my photos to add the quote to and pick the fonts and colors. I love it. I am so bad with words and this made it so easy. While I was camping I have created 26 photos withe quotes I will be posted soon to my Creations by Here I Am Facebook page. I can see you are going to enjoy what you can do with photos as well. So many photos you may think aren't very good can be changed to something of a work of art. Have fun with it.