Making background look awesome using Pixrl in a minute

in photography •  7 years ago  (edited)

I found a easy and lazy way to manipulate the background of any pic, provided the background has a clear enough space to fill it in.
The Changes can be subtle to huge depends on how you want it to look.

I use the pixlr app because of it features and most importantly its option to select and de select the certain parts of the pics. Which makes it best compared to others.
1.jpg

Double exposure: is the method of merging two layers

Its an option which you will find in every photo editor or photoshop

  • So here is my original,i will just tweak it a little bit by using the Brush option which is marked in red
    2.jpg
  • Use the dark brush to darken the background, which will enhance the background color
    Use the brighten brush tool on the skin, or whichever part you want it to be highlight
    Using these two tools can improve the lightning condition to a certain extent
  • Now go to the double exposure option, it will ask for the second pic which is to be merged
    Since i want to add more clouds,i will choose an evening twilight sky pic, which you can easily google
    3.jpg

  • Adjust the second image in a such way that it fits in your pic, you can resize it just by moving the pic in and out

  • Go through below options to merge in various way, you will find many and most of them doesn't merge in a good way so you have to find the right one, for my pic the darken one suits perfectly
    4.jpg

  • Adjust the downside bar for the deepness of the effect, adjust till it looks believable
    and you can erase the merge layer of any part, if it doesn't fits, which is available at the top left corner option

That should make pic look and in final step just make it bit dark and play with subtle filters to make it more colorful

Since i like Astro photography , i merged it with the night sky pic , the result was like this
IMG_20171126_175208_20171129181947286.jpg

It's fun to mess with pics, you should try it :)
Thanks for reading ! hope you enjoyed it. Have happy times

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Creative work

Thank you @Shilpavarma :)

Nice! It's like manual HDR, in a way. Love the result!

Thank you @shibamo for the nice comment :) and welcome to steemit.

This is a really helpful article, @vishal09! You did a great job with the examples. I will have to give this technique a try. It looks like it could be a lot of fun, and rewarding, too. I found this article from a link in the Unmentionables. I've upvoted and resteemed this post, and am following you now, too.
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Thank you so much @mitneb
Yes do try this method , by finding a right pic to merge. Let me know if you need any assist with that, will be glad to help.
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  ·  7 years ago 

wow~ the final pic is really nice~

Thank you , glad you liked it aaronli :)

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Thank you guys :)

Wow amazing just look like an original one seems no editing

Thank you @aryatituti :D

I have never used any app to change the way my pictures look but hey thanks for sharing this here mate. Maybe with this I might be able to do a little retouch on the ones that had a few flaws and make them look better. :)

Yeah subtle changes does give it a better look :) Thanks for commenting kyrios

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Thank you :) i appreciate that.

Extremely Creative! Will try it out! :)

Much Love!

Thank you so much @amitsharma :)

You are Welcome! :)

This is really useful.

Glad you found it useful :) Thanks for the comment

Hi! As a portrait photographer and retoucher, I can say, that this is very useful app at first look :) ! Thank You for sharing!

Oh yeah it's a good app to use it on the phone for quick edits :D Thanks for checking out the post

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The post is a lot better.you are creative man. thank you so much for this post

Thanks elias :)

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