Whether you and your family will be attending church, hunting for hidden eggs, keeping your eyes open for signs of the Easter Bunny, or just devoring some yummy chocolate, take digital photos of the holiday’s activities and scrap them!
Another fun way to “jazz” up your favorite Easter pics is to add photo effects to them. This can create an artistic-feel that will look fabulous on your Facebook Page, Family Website, digital scrapbooking pages & albums, or even just as photos mailed or emailed to your family and friends! Give these five cool Photoshop Elements photo effects a try this Easter!
1. Black & White. Snap some pics of your little one dressed in their Easter attire and convert them into Black and White within Photoshop Elements. Tip: Black and white photos exaggerate the feeling or mood of the photo, so try to use one with few distractions and “noise.” For super-sweet Easter Black and White photos, avoid using pics with a lot of background and scenery, and instead choose simple photos or close-up portrait shots.
Want to learn how to convert your regular, colored photos to black and white? Then get Digital Scrapbooks and More’s Black & White Digi MakeOver Madness Photo Editing Tutorial!
2. Black & White… with a Touch of Color. One step up from converting your photos to black and white, you crank up the intensity when you bring back a little color to something special in a photo.
For Easter pics, add the color back to something special: an Easter basket, Easter eggs, colorful chocolate candies in your child’s hand, etc.
Want to learn how to convert your regular, colored photos to black and white with just a bit of color? Then get Digital Scrapbooks and More’s Black & White with a Touch of Color Photo Editing Tutorial! Please note: This tutorial features Halloween photos, but there’s no reason why you can’t use this photo editing lesson for Easter pics… or any photos- holiday or not- for that matter!
3. Custom Shapes. You can add some cool, funky flare to your adorable Easter photos using custom shapes! Add bunnies, tulips, and Easter eggs, or other holiday-inspired shapes to create an original-looking background!
Get Digital Scrapbooks and More’s Lesson 2 within the Getting Started Series to learn how to use Custom Shapes! Or get the entire Getting Started Series CD and learn it all!
4. Text. Adding sweet-greetings to a favorite photo can add a little personality to a sweet shot. Turn a special photo of your family into a greeting card, or convert it to a PDF page or album and email it to Grandma and Grandpa! Include names, the date, and the place to personalize a pic! You can even include favorite sayings, phrases, quotes (poetry, songs, etc), and use a holiday-inspired text to inject some special Easter Day photo-flare!
Get Digital Scrapbooks and More’s Lesson 2 within the Getting Started Series to learn how to add text to your photos or scrap pages! Or get the entire Getting Started Series CD and learn it all!
5. Artistic Effects. Easter is the perfect excuse to go all out and make a regular ol’ photo anything but ordinary. Use artistic effects within Photoshop Elements to make your portrait photos look like charcoal sketches, watercolor masterpieces, or little works of (digital) acrylic genius. It’s incredibly easy to add artistic effects, it only takes seconds, and, trust me, you’re friends will wonder how the heck you managed to create such a cool holiday photo! They may even ask you to add effects to their family pics too!
Get Digital Scrapbooks and More’s Baby Series Photo Editing Series- available in Photoshop Elements AND Photoshop, which includes 3 tutorials: Adding Artistic Effects to photos, Removing Red Eye from Photos, and Converting Photos to Black & White!
Remember, besides taking and making cool photos this Easter, don’t forget to digitally scrap all the special festivities!
Buy Easter digital scrapbooking supplies and kits to create your Easter scrap pages!
Happy Scrapping & Happy Easter!
-Jennifer
