Going on a Picnik...

I had a lot of fun with this one! I chose a picture of me and a gymnast at the Dance Moves and Gymnastics Spring Recital in May. I took a couple pictures, but this one is the better of the two, but was too dark to really show. I imported my photo albums from Facebook because I wanted to use a personal picture, but didn't have one handy at work. It was very nice to have all of my pictures that I had already uploaded readily available to me. I was happy that I was able to lighten it and take some of the glare away. The only thing I'm not happy with is that the edited picture is a little more pixelated. I was going to work on this more, but I was working on this at the end of my shift, and had to save it. However, when I saved it, I did not realize that it would automatically show up on my Facebook profile. I was pretty confused when I got home and saw that I had two likes on my picture! For my other edit, I worked with the saturation and tempurature to make a black and white-esque picture (and I figured out how to not save it to Facebook!) All in all, I'm glad I learned more about Picnik, and I plan on using it more to edit my (and my camera's) mistakes!

I'm using 23 Things to talk about one of my favorite things...

Module # 5: Flickr and Photo Sharing. 

I'm missing England today, so the photo I picked is of Harlaxton Manor, the manor house where I spent my semester abroad. Harlaxton Manor is located a few miles out of Grantham, a small town in Lincolnshire, England. I spent the Spring semester of 2010 there with about 150 American students. During this time, I traveled around the UK visiting Edinburgh, Loch Ness, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Cardiff, among other locations. My experience at Harlaxton was amazing! I met so many different people from all over the United States and immersed myself in the English culture, which was my primary goal.

For some reason, I have a hard time figuring out photo sharing websites...they just don't make sense to me, so I went ahead and took the tour on Flickr to see the different features available. The tour was really nice and broke down all the features with brightly colored numbers. Personally, I don't do pictures that much (with the exception of my semester abroad), so using Facebook to add, tag, and share is fine with me. However flickr would be nice to use for people who aren't on my Facebook. (actually, almost everyone that would want to see my pictures are on Facebook...) I did see a cool feature where you could Map out your pictures

Below I have added a link  for an album for the grounds of Harlaxton. Isn't it beautiful? Unfortunately, I could not use one of the pictures from the Harlaxton Flickr account, so I added one from my personal collection on Facebook.






 Flickr: Grounds of Harlaxton