Before/After.

Ok so for my before/after, I used Picnik, because I just did my screencast on Gimp, and to be honest I've never really used Picnik before, and I wanted to see what all the fuss was about-- and now I get it. I really like it!

First, I messed around with the exposure. I gave the picture more contrast, because it was so bland looking. I also nudged the exposure to make it a little brighter, but not so much that it would look overexposed.

Then I saturated it just a twinge, and made it look a little more tan, away from the blue-ish color.

After that, I was pretty much finished with it, I just did the before and after framing. I didn't want to mess with it so much that it looked weird or very, very digitally handled.

(double click this picture to reach my flickr account)


Making the photo a Creative Commons was so easy, I did it just like it showed on EdVibes. Very simple. Also sharing it and getting the HTML was self explanatory. I chose the attribution-non commercial- no derivatives CC because  I didn't want anyone to be able to use derivative works based upon my work (even though there are currently none) and I certainly didn't want anyone using it for commercial purposes. And of course I wanted credit for my work. I figured out which I wanted to use by looking at this.