Another design

You know, choosing is the hardest part of photo editing. You use websites like PhotoFunia or Picnik which allow you to make tons of pictures very quickly, and then suddenly you have 15 pictures to choose from and you love all of them. Here is yet another design I really like.

Design specifications checklist - Design 11

• The original picture must be altered in a photo editing program - yes
  
• There can't be anyone else than yourself on the photograph - yes (there's three of me instead :)
  
• The image must express who you are - yes
  
• I must be able to recognize myself on the portrait - yes
  
• The photograph must be one I have taken myself - yes (entirely)
  
• The final work should be neat and completely finished - yes
  
• It should be the result of me working at my hardest - yes
  
• I should be proud of the result - yes
  
• This image should show more about myself than I think it does - yes
  
• It should be visually pleasant - yes

One thing I feel is very important about my personality is that I have many sides that I know all of my friends haven't seen. I have changed and grown a lot over the past few years as well, so I felt like one picture wasn't enough to express all of that. I looked through my folder of pictures (old Facebook display pictures, mostly) and found two others that seemed quite interesting: one where I'm quite crazy, wearing ninja clothes, and another one where I look very shy, that I took nearly two years ago.

Using Photoshop, I took my original picture and looked for places where I could add the two new ones - in the image, there was a frame and a mirror. I played with opacity, saturation and other settings until it looked like the image in the frame and the reflection in the mirror were my two pictures. However, I didn't really like the ninja one - it was too bright, too much of an attention grabber in the image. So I went to Photofunia and incorporated the ninja image into the book effect. I just loved the result.

Finally, I took my edited image from Photoshop and edited it on Picnik. I cooled the colors and added the snow effect, as well as a light vignette and a black and white focus. My two other portraits that are in the image aren't very obvious, but that's the way I wanted them to be. So in the end, I used all Photofunia, Photoshop and Picnik for this design.