Tag: Canva

Ocean Views in Black and White

Monochrome Madness this week is hosted by Sarah @ Travel with Me. The theme is the sea. I’ve been experimenting again with Canva, and made a couple of collages. It’s taken far longer that it should have again, I need to spend more time playing around with it.

I’ve recently been going to Cottesloe Beach for a quick swim in the morning. Always within the shark net! Below are some I took the other day. There are constant shark warnings, they don’t seem to bother so many people. I’m not so blase.

Thanks Sarah for an enjoyable challenge. I love all the wordpress challenges, they are good for looking back through your photos. They bring back long forgotten memories and also help clean up photo albums.

~ To Edit or not to Edit, that is the question ~

This week for Sunday Stills, Terri has asked whether we edit our photos or not. I like to edit most of my photos as the software these days is fantastic. An ordinary photo can be transformed into something worth showing.

These are just a few I’ve had a play around with.



The original is on the left and the right is edited. I used two different editors. BeFunky which is a free one for a painted effect, but was then left with a watermark. So I exported to Google Photos and used magic blur. Somewhat time consuming but good to know!

Two white cockatoos chatting to each other down by the river. As you can see my original image definitely needed editing. Using my iMac software for this.

I don’t think a camera phone is the best to take a semi-full moon photo. This was taken the other night. I think it shows better in black and white. Google Photo Editor.

I had the most fun with the above photo as it was the first time I have used an AI type software, from Canva. I’m still trying to get to grips with this website, so spent a long time – too long on this! The first photo is the the original but I thought it looked a bit boring, so I’ve added a few attributes!

Thanks to Terri for all the information she has shared about editing on her post, I’ve certainly learnt much more about different kinds of software.