Reviewing Picture Aviary Photo Editor

Typepad uses a lite version of Aviary Photo Editor as the onboard Editor that comes up when you double click an image that has been inserted into a post.

Here I have inserted one original photograph and then used various effects and automatic one-click adjustments from the Aviary Photo Editor that pops up when you double-click and image. The lite version requires that you resize high resolution images to lower resolution images before these effects will work--which it does for you and then allows you to save the results. The name of each respective effect is noted below each altered image.

As a longptime photographer who has been using and experimenting heartily with image manipulation software from its onset, I have never been much for canned one-click effects, but it is a quick and easy way to add some dazzle to your lack-luster photos. Many non-photographers use Typepad. These bloggers may especially enjoy the feaures of this image editor.I like it for that very feature of resizing images. Cropping, rotating, and resizing to several fixed sizes is also a breeze, as is placing different weigths of borders around images.          is easy too.

Night

Original

 

Clyde

One day I was walking my dog at the lake when I started taking a few snapshots of a picturesque scene with unusual lighting. I thought, wouldn't it be cool if I had a fishing boat in this scene. A little while later some fishermen trolled their boat over. I took that picture and then thought, if my brother was painting this, I bet he would put some ducks or geese in the foreground or in the water. Wala, it was not that long as I was on my way back when I realized the Canadian honkers had arrived; could they have heard my thoughts? Pretty sure someone did.
We have average days. We have bad days. But then we also have VERY good days. You will never convince me that those enumerable "little coincidences"--merely happen by chance. I know they are little trail markers provided by Our Maker to let us know that we are not forgotten. Things always seems to wind up on the plus side of the balance if we are patient.

Enhance/Backlit

Boardwalk

There are subtleties that make this picture in the high-resolution hard-copy print that you may not notice in this low-res screen image without having them pointed out. First, the geese that appear headless are just ducking their heads at an angle. The tree is a sweet-gum still loaded with a ton of those little symmetrical sharp-pointed fruit balls we threw as kids. The red on the far bank is the red clay where the waterline is exposed from the low water-levels. The late afternoon sun is casting long shadows through the trees and is about to go down. The sky is clear only from that vantage. The otherwise overcast sky is causing an unusual blue glow contrasting with those golden rays partially illuminating some of the limbs in the background and just a few foreground overhangs. This is in the bleak of winter, so the colors are very unusual in this peculiar light. There is a wood-duck box house on the side of the tree facing toward me (the camera). About mid-way up within he space between the two trees are two bright red objects lighted by the sun.These are the lost floats from hapless bank fishermen who caught them in the over-hanging limbs while casting. Most fishermen have shared this fate, so it adds a dose of authenticity to the scene. My oldest brother was a consummate outdoorsman and a wonderfully gifted painter. His attention to details of scenes painted mostly from his own minds-eye would add such detailed minutia that seldom aligns in real life. It was truly my good fortune that all these elements came together and I was able to catch such fleeting moments during this outing. I probably took a hundred or more photos during this brief outing, all uniquely different.

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