Colouring photograph tutorials

I did some photo colouring tutorials tonight that I saved years ago back when I was making 100x100 icons on Live Journal. I'm just not sure which is the best ...

This is the original. This photo was taken by myself in New Zealand in 2007.

This is the first colour tutorial I did and it's a lot darker, a lot more blue than the original but it might be too much.

And this is the second colour tutorial I did. It's definitely different than the original, sharper somehow maybe, but not as dramatically changed as the first coloured one. It might be the winner.

The middle photo looks too blue, and buildings aren't usually that colour. I should stick with the last one. I wanted some suggestions but since no-one reads my journal and Facebook doesn't do photo polls I figured it out myself. Go me! Now I can keep doing this in preparation for my Blurb book.

Beautiful New Zealand

Isn't New Zealand beautiful?

This is the front cover for my Blurb NZ Travel Book.

It's the best picture out of the whole potential book. Sad isn't it.

I wish I took great photographs, or just developed an easy routine to follow

when altering pictures. I must do that. Sydney will help me out.

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Blurb Travel Books

I have started creating my New Zealand Travel Book on the Blurb.com website. So far it has been frustrating but slowly, very, very slowly, coming together, which is making me happy. My photos aren't the best so I'm not sure how much to include and whether or not to write the whole diary in is another issue. I like the front cover! That's something. I'm trying to stitch together some panoramas with the program PanaVue ImageAssembler 3 and hopefully I can figure out how to do a double page spread with the panoramas. I know I'll get there eventually. I could spend a lot of time fixing each image, using one of my saved tutorials, but they're fine as they are. I'm not making a top quality book here and I'm sure it'll look fine. I guess it'll mostly be pictures. I just hope it turns out well and I make pictures the correct size and tiny details like that. It's going to take a while but at least I'll be creating something special. And it'll get done a lot quicker than my manual one.