Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
ment) of the color channels was sometimes off, to name a few flaws. But people loved
the strong personality of these images, and in recent years, making a photo look like it
was taken with a Lomo has become popular.
Figure 13-14
(left) shows an example of
what Elements creates with this effect.
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Orton Effect
. As explained on
Radial Blur: Producing a Sense of Motion
, this edit uses
a very soft focus to create a dreamlike mood.
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Tilt-Shift
. This is a fun effect that you see quite often, where the photo's focus zones are
manipulated to make the subject look miniature (a car looks like a toy car, a house looks
like a doll's house, and so on).
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Vignette Effect
. Lets you create soft, shadowy corners in your photos. You can create
either a dark or light vignette around your subject.
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Zoom Burst Effect
. This guided edit applies a radial blur that makes your image look
like you're zooming in on the area you choose to keep in focus. The overall effect is
something like what you can create by using a Lensbaby lens on your camera.
In addition to those options, there are several fun effects in the Guided Edit panel's Photo
Play section. Some of them are a bit complex, but once you've been through the process
once or twice, it becomes very easy to create any of them:
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Out Of Bounds
. This effect makes part of your subject look like it's moving out of the
framed image, giving the photo a sort of 3-D look.
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Good candidates for the Out Of Bounds effect are photos where there's a fairly strong
color contrast between your subject and the background. For example, your daughter
will be easier to select if she's playing soccer on a grass field than if she's running on
a track amidst her classmates.
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Picture Stack
. This makes a photo look like you took several shots of different bits of
the subject and then arranged them on a table so you could see the whole thing at once.
You can choose whether there should be four, eight, or 12 pictures in the stack; adjust the
