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I adore odd images of everyday items, just the way many can take something so ‘pedestrian’ and turn it into something scary, surreal, or even beautiful is awe inspiring to me.  While I’m not much of a photographer, I do enjoy the art and even taking images and editing them to the point where they take on a who other form.

The images in this process were taken by me today.  They are all from my own garage and the goal is to easily process them (well, technically show you how to easily process them).

First here is the original:

First things first- it is far, far too bright.  I had to use my flash, and honestly the image was a bit too last minute to try and dull it in anyway.  The end result of the series of images is supposed to be a bit of Kafka / Hitchcock. 

I’ve also decided to go with complete laziness ease and use Picasa.  It’s free and you can grab it here: Google Picasa download.

 

Obviously you need to locate the image on the disk. 

Toying with the overall lighting and temperature settings is incredibly easy, and for quick fixes especially I do use Picasa on a normal basis.  Even for photos where the end result is a black and white image, toying with these settings will make a difference. 

You still can change them later, but this will help get through that easier.

 

After all of the lighting is adjusted to your liking, you can click on over to the effects menu and play with the settings until you achieve something that you are going for.

 

Now go back and continue fixing the lighting and temperature until you are happy with the result.

From here you can continue to edit the image in Photoshop or leave it as is*. 

Overall for quicker fixes I tend to just use Picasa, and if more is needed I will do that kind of thing in Photoshop.  Truthfully, I do prefer Picasa for the simpler fixes, and considering it’s free- it gets even more kudos from me.

 

*Yes, that was a fairly redundant statement.