
Trying my hand at applying textures to photographs – and I love how this one turned out!

Ok, not really a polaroid. It’s a Faux-laroid. Heh. I have plans for a new blog header one of these days, and I wanted to figure out how to make my images look like polaroids. So I found quite a few tutorials, but none were quite what I was looking for. So I took some ideas from the tutorials, looked at real scanned-in polaroids on flickr, and then made mine up as I went along.
What do you think?
Day 26 of 365.
I have been practicing some portrait retouching techniques in Photoshop. I am not an expert photoshop user at all, but I am learning. One of my favorite resources for learning photoshop techniques is from Scott Kelby’s book, The Photoshop CS2 Book for Digital Photographers
. Scott Kelby is hilarious, and the book is really easy to follow, with step-by-step instructions about all the basic (and some not-so-basic) techniques used to enhance digital photos.
Here is my original image:

And here is my processed image:

I adjusted the white balance a bit, cloned out some of the skin imperfections, and softened it a bit.
What do you think? I think I might have softened it a little too much … might be a tad too blurry now. I will have to think about it some more.