First of all, I was looking for a gallery can show them nicely. Therefore, I used the editing tools on Wix.com.
I selected one of the galleries to see how it works with the pictures. I think it looks fine, however, some of them lose important elements.
I do not like the first version, so I deleted it and created a new one.
I interested in photography techniques, then I have played with different colour tones, films and light. Here is an example shows how I made the picture looks better and let it works with other images that in the same series.
I made a stronger contrast in this poppyhead and changed a Film/Duotone named STREET FOOD. It provided old feeling and yellowy colours. I let it link to the pomegranate which shared the same topic with it, also match up the mushrooms. As the picture shows, it works.
Moreover, I clicked in 'change image' that I can organise my gallery. It was a very useful tool. I dragged pictures and organised them together to look like a series. There is a crop tool on Wix.com. I used it to crop picture (like this example shows below)which has edges with other colours. It is very convenient, I can find it after I uploaded to the gallery. It also helps to rotate the image, detailed in degree. Therefore I do not need to edit the images to Photoshop and drag them back to Wix.com.
But sometimes it can't help if the work is complicated. For instances, if I did not take photographs vertically, I can not use the crop tool on Wix.com unless the pictures might lose information.
However, PhotoScapes X helps with this problem. I dragged the photos to my laptop(MacBook Pro). It has a special crop tool setting called Perspective Crop. It allows me to drag the blue dots in the right positions to create a frame that I would not crop important messages away. One more example here. This tool lets my Gallery looks more professional and organised.
Appropriate size and clear edge are not enough for a high-quality portfolio, then I changed the film and colour contrast for this photo. It looks brighter and the colours are fresher. Nice try.
Moreover, there are some photographs with messy backgrounds. So I need to cover the colours I do not want to include. I airdropped this photo to my iPad Pro and used Sketchbook to edit it. I have chosen a marker and selected a colour of the shadow in the background. The reason why I used marker is I think marker provides a thicker texture that it might be a good tool to cover other colours.
After that, I airdropped it back to Macbook Pro. I uploaded it to Wix.com and used the crop tool to cut the extra colour around the edges. It looks much better on the website now.
I will write a reflection later, check on the next blog.
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