So he's looking at the website and says to
me; "How old is this picture?", which caused me to think,
which can be troublesome.
That picture was six months old. I did it myself.
Camera on the bookshelf, 10 second delay, me in a suit and tie,
snazzy background, the whole shmear. Oh yeah, and don't forget,
gotta transfer it from the camera to the PC, crop, resize, stick it
in the website, push it up to the internet, the whole magilla. How
often am I supposed to do that?
But six months is not that long. How much could I
have changed? Maybe it was a nice way to say it was a bad picture.
No, he would have said that. He would have said; "You look
much better in real life.". Maybe I just looked like crap
that day. Maybe I just look like crap, period. I don't know.
So now what? I look like crap and am scaring people
away from the website. Some people use caricatures,
watercolors, even cartoons of themselves instead of real pictures.
Authors do it, alot. Why not? Maybe some artsy-fartsy pseudo Craig
that's ageless and better looking than the original.
Finally, after much googling and trials, http://editor.pho.to
popped up on the radar. I took my home-made picture and
uploaded it, editor.pho.to is web-based so it's hassle-free, and it
became a cartoon. Good enough, but wait, it does glamour shots too?
OK!
Not just red-eye reduction either. Wrinkle removal,
skin makeup, eye makeup, teeth whitening, and shine removal
too.
From left to right; a picture, a picture
cartooned, and the same picture glamourized.
Now I really look like crap compared to the (www.cnci.us) picture. Oh well. Christmas is in the
air, and it's time to focus on giving. http://editor.pho.to is
my early Christmas gift to you.
I'm not the first to struggle with the dreaded
"Family Christmas Picture". Maybe you're in the same
boat. Cut & Paste that special someone who doesn't like the way
they look in the picture that everyone else likes. Lighten the face
under the baseball cap. Crop the background. You know. There just
isn't enough Jack Daniels to make that a good time
.
http://editor.pho.to
won't make up for all your shortcomings as a photographer but it
can help. Start with a usable picture. Not something you've cut
from a giant panorama that looks like building blocks instead of
pixels. Get right up close and use the camera to crop the picture
instead of wasting all those pixels on the cutting room floor.
Nancy (not her real name) and I will be looking very glamorous this
year.
You too can
be glamorous, you can start drinking, that's your call, and that's
Cocktail Talk.
