Nothing to See Here...

TK & Michele -

To be honest, my very first thought last night (after I noticed the Disney Parks section on Photobucket) was, "I have to post something on Facebook and in my TR right away, so my DIS friends and Disney-oriented friends will see it and be able to get in there and edit their photos before the effects disappear!":rotfl2:

I am so paranoid now, after seeing that Photobucket inexplicably removed their holiday effects before Christmas Day last year, that I keep thinking that the Disney Effects will only be in Photobucket for a day or two and then vanish into thin air.

I hope other folks will be able to have the chance to play around with some of the effects on their photos before everything disappears - although, quite frankly, there is a really pitiful selection of Disney effects. There were many more fun holiday things to play with than there are Disney effects. But...we take what we get, I suppose.

Just putting the Mickey ears on people is great fun in and of itself!:rotfl2: You can make the ears small or large, depending on the proportions of the heads in the pictures (in other words, big ol' head or tiny li'l head!:rotfl2:). You can tilt the ears to the left or right, depending on if the head in question is tilted. The Goofy ears are harder to work with. That hat doesn't really look right on anyone's head, but the Mickey ears work on almost everyone.

There is also a little "fireworks" effect, which kind of looks like pixie dist, that can spruce up some nighttime photos here and there. And there are a couple of other things, but it's really limited.
 
TK & Michele -

To be honest, my very first thought last night (after I noticed the Disney Parks section on Photobucket) was, "I have to post something on Facebook and in my TR right away, so my DIS friends and Disney-oriented friends will see it and be able to get in there and edit their photos before the effects disappear!":rotfl2:

I am so paranoid now, after seeing that Photobucket inexplicably removed their holiday effects before Christmas Day last year, that I keep thinking that the Disney Effects will only be in Photobucket for a day or two and then vanish into thin air.

I hope other folks will be able to have the chance to play around with some of the effects on their photos before everything disappears - although, quite frankly, there is a really pitiful selection of Disney effects. There were many more fun holiday things to play with than there are Disney effects. But...we take what we get, I suppose.

Just putting the Mickey ears on people is great fun in and of itself!:rotfl2: You can make the ears small or large, depending on the proportions of the heads in the pictures (in other words, big ol' head or tiny li'l head!:rotfl2:). You can tilt the ears to the left or right, depending on if the head in question is tilted. The Goofy ears are harder to work with. That hat doesn't really look right on anyone's head, but the Mickey ears work on almost everyone.

There is also a little "fireworks" effect, which kind of looks like pixie dist, that can spruce up some nighttime photos here and there. And there are a couple of other things, but it's really limited.

I LOVE the Mickey ears. :earboy2: I think of you and Deej every time I look at my calendar. DISers are the best for passing along fun. Not like I need any more excuses to be on-line :goodvibes
 

I have been waving the Disney Parks effects wand over some photos again, and giving some ears where there were not any before!



In this photo from December 1993, the ears work better on my head than on M’s head (her hair seems to be too big and the ears look too wide!):

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Summer 1994 (I added in Tinkerbell too!):

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From 2007 (DLR Rainforest Café):

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From October 2009 – Look very, very, very closely at this PhotoPass picture – look in the background; look at the borders. Are we three the only ones wearing ears??:

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From this past December 2011, in DTD (this is M):

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And here are some more of my recent favorite flower photos (not from DLR) – which I’m throwing in just because I’ve told you all how I take photos all the time, as I am walking through the neighborhood. I will stop in front of trees and bushes to take pictures until I get some shots that I like! These were not altered at all, in any way (not even Autofixed):


These are all over the place – outside of LACMA and the Tar Pits, these bushes give vibrant pops of color in random places along the block:

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I love the way the sun is backlighting this picture – generally it is not a good idea to shoot into the sun or towards the sun, but in this case I wanted to because this is the effect I was trying to get, more or less…

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I absolutely adore this photo – I love the way the flowers are cascading & billowing downward. I love the lighting. I love the different levels of pink. This is my current Facebook Timeline cover picture.

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I love my neighborhood! You can literally walk down one street and it feels like you’re in Arizona, with various cactus flowers, rock gardens and Southwestern color schemes. And then you turn the corner onto another block and it feels like you’re in the South of France…or in Mississippi, with bountiful, bright bougainvilleas everywhere, and the smell of honeysuckle and jasmine in the air.
 
Great job with the photobucket effects. I was reminded of the 'find the differences' when I was counting the ears in the halloween picture. FUN!
 
Love the Disney effects! Hopefully I will have a chance to try some out before they yank it away. Life is busy.

Great job on the photos of the flowers. So pretty! I think I like the cascading, billowing pink flowers the best. It's hard to choose.

Can't wait until you start the next section of your TR! My sister is heading to DL in a few days, so I have Disneyland on my mind a lot right now. Oh...I'm realizing I haven't commented on the last official pre-portion of the TR. Hopefully I will have a few more moments to do that later.
 
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Vey nice effects of your photos. That is a lot of Mickey ears on your Halloween pic.

I enjoyed all of your photos from those different years.
 
Sherry, you are loving the photo effects aren't you? I think maybe I will spend sometime playing with them tomorrow.
 
OK, Sherry, the Halloween picture is just over the top!! I'm surprised you weren't putting mouse ears on the flowers after that!!

It's 103 here today; I'd love me some more Christmas trip report to cool me down!

PHXscuba
 
TK, Deej, Bret, Michele and PHXscuba –





I'm glad that everyone is enjoying the Disney Parks effects (I think?)! I hope you all get a chance to play around with some of your old and new pictures and add in a few 'enhancements' here and there! :rotfl2:

The thing is, there are probably just a handful of photos where the effects work reallllllly well, or where you can get the effects to appear exactly as you want them. But in order to find those perfect photos where everything just 'works,' you have to go through a lot of attempts first - or kiss a lot of frogs until you get to the princes in the bunch! And, also, experiment with really old and really new photos. That's what I am discovering anyway.

I don't know how many more of these I will do because I don't have the time for it and because my PC hates Photobucket. I don't want to miss out on that possible perfect photo that is just begging for some Disney Parks effects because I stop testing them out and then Photobucket yanks the effects away. But I plan on throwing some ears on my grandmother in one of my Disneyland 1972 pictures! :rotfl2:

Oh, about the Halloween picture with all the ears. First of all, I love it! I thought it was hysterical putting in the ears where you wouldn't expect to be looking for them. My mistake was in actually telling you guys that there were other ears! It lessened the impact. I should have kept quiet and just waited to see if anyone noticed them!

Let me explain my thought process on the Halloween picture. The ghosts in the corner already had ears - those ears came with the PhotoPass Halloween border. So I began thinking, "Well, gee, if the ghosts already have ears then the pumpkins should have them too." So I gave 2 of the pumpkins at the bottom their ears.

And then, when I was putting the ears on our heads in that same photo - which was my original plan - I thought, "Hmmm...I wonder how small I can make these ears?" Then it became a challenge to discover exactly how teeny I could get the ears to be, and I realized they would fit on the heads of 2 of the people in the background. So I thought it would be funny to add them on the heads of random strangers who just happened to be in my picture - as if to imply that everyone wears ears at Disneyland!





PHX - If the flowers had been in the same Disneyland photo with us, they might have gotten the ear treatment too! :lmao:






Here’s another version of the photo I previously showed you, from December 1993 – this time I took the ears off of M, because they didn’t look right on her head, and I put them on Tinkerbell! By the way, you can make Tinkerbell any size – she can be teeny or she can be gigantic or anywhere in between!

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From October 2009 –

I added the Hitchhiking Ghost border and a red skull & crossbones in the upper right corner (the skull is not part of the Disney Parks effects), because I associate skulls and crossbones with Pirates and because Captain Hook wears red!:

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This one has several effects…

I used the Ghost border (because we were in the Haunted Mansion Holiday queue, and because he’s got his THUMB out, like the ladies also do!). I added in Tinkerbell (because Shawn does not like Tinkerbell! Hee hee.). I added in random pink & orange butterflies (because Shawn loves butterflies and because her shirt was orange and Bridgette’s was pink). And then I stuck in a random pumpkin down in the corner – just because there are pumpkins behind them!


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From this past December 2011 –

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I saved the best for last! This picture has been a BIG hit with friends so far. I, of course, added a Disney Parks border. I, of course, added in Tinkerbell (by request).

But then – I did a layering effect! That’s right! I took the separate pixie dust effect that is in the Disney Parks effects section – it’s separate from the Tinkerbell effect – and I kept adding in and layering the effect on top of itself, changing the size to make the pixie dust ‘particles’ alternately smaller and larger and filling in other spaces in the photo. It actually took a bit of time (and dealing with a stupid computer) to get it the way I wanted it.

So Tinkerbell is essentially ‘making it rain’ pixie dust on my friends!!! And now I am taking requests for photos to make over!! Lol.


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Anyway, I just wanted to show you a good variety of photos – some older and some newer – to illustrate the different range of Disney Parks effects and the different ways you can use them by changing the size, layering, moving them to select spots in the photos, tilting ears this way or that way, editing existing PhotoPass borders, etc.

You can get very creative with it (I'm sure Deejdigsdis would have some great ideas of how to use these borders, if she can find the time to play with them!) Again, I only wish that Photobucket offered more effects to play with!





More December 2011 TR coming up! The next installment will explain my arrival at the PPH after riding with a shuttle driver who I thought was going the wrong way so he could shuffle me off to a remote location and kill me! (He didn't, by the way...just in case you hadn't figured that out by now. ;))


Deej, I look forward to your other comments!
 
I think you guys won't have to sit through anymore Disney Parks effects photos (the batch I posted above^^ are the last ones I shared) because, from what I can tell, it appears that Photobucket has already yanked the Disney Parks effects from its editing line-up! At least, when I went into Photobucket today for a totally different reason, I didn't see the Disney Parks box. They appear to be gone. I don't know if they are gone from everyone's accounts or if Photobucket just kind of rolls them out to people in stages to try them out, and we might not all have them at the same time??:confused3

That's why I had to whip a bunch of effects pictures out when I had the chance - I just knew the Disney parks stuff would disappear in the blink of an eye and it did! So whenever you are in your Photobucket account and you happen to notice an extra editing feature that you didn't see before - start using it fast, before it vanishes!

Too bad, though, because I had a couple more ears pictures I was going to do for other friends - one of the pictures was perfect for some ears and some pixie dust - but I didn't have the time to get to it and now it's too late!

Darn that Photobucket!
 
Well, that stinks but I got this fun app on my phone that I can add the effects before I take the picture! It is a Disney app so I am going to have a bit of fun with it!
 
I'm sorry to hear about that Sherry. I really did enjoy all of your Disney park photo effect on Phtobucket.
 
Bret -

Thank you! It's no big deal in the long run, but it's so annoying when Photobucket puts these limited edition edits up, doesn't really announce that they are there so that people can use them and then, once we have noticed they are there, they take them away without warning!:headache: They did that with both the holiday effects last year and the Disney Parks effects. Who knows how many other limited edition effects they have put up that I've missed because I didn't know they were there?

The editing and application of certain effects is more just something to 'play' with for me. It's just a way of seeing if I can create different versions of the same photos, which works well if you send out greeting cards, make projects like calendars, make posters or other things.

But, just for the purposes of trip reports and actually reporting on a Disneyland trip, I don't use edited photos. I use the regular ol' photos as they were taken, good or bad. (Although I don't bother sharing the photos that are extremely blurry, to the point of not being able to see/identify the subject!)




Michele -

That app sounds fun! I look forward to seeing the results of your Disney pictures. I remember that Marie had/has some sort of special Disney camera that applied character images onto photos when they were taken. Your app sounds similar to that (though there may be more than just characters that you can add). In fact, I think they still sell those cameras in Disneyland, but I never got one.

I don't have the sort of phone where you can add all kinds of apps to it. If I did have one I might get that same app for novelty's sake, but I find that I really like the editing process. I like the post-processing of basic photos. I like to work with different effects to try to create different results after the photo has already been taken. I like to try different effects together; tilt ears to this angle or that; make things larger or smaller; layer effects on top of each other; punch up the colors or crop in certain spots; soften/blur certain things; find the perfect location within a photo to add the effect; lighten or darken certain areas, etc., etc. I like using the actual keyboard and mouse to manipulate the images and effects.
 
Hi Sherry! I finally got a chance to pop on and see what's new. Love all your photos with the special effects. Bet you did have fun playing around with them. I missed my chance since they are already gone. Boy, you gotta be fast! I also loved your flower photos. You sure must have a lovely neighborhood.

Looking forward to seeing what you have in store for us next.




Well, that stinks but I got this fun app on my phone that I can add the effects before I take the picture! It is a Disney app so I am going to have a bit of fun with it!
Do tell! What's the name of this fun little app?
 
Hi Sherry! I finally got a chance to pop on and see what's new. Love all your photos with the special effects. Bet you did have fun playing around with them. I missed my chance since they are already gone. Boy, you gotta be fast! I also loved your flower photos. You sure must have a lovely neighborhood.

Looking forward to seeing what you have in store for us next.




Do tell! What's the name of this fun little app?


It is called Disney Parks Let The Memories Begin. I got it in the google app store for android.
 
I'm back Sherry. I turned 17 today!!

Hi there, Kaitlin!

I'm very glad you're back!:cool1:

I'm so sorry it took me this long to wish you a happy birthday - but a very belated Happy Birthday to you!!!!!:wizard: I hope it was a great day for you and that you had fun. I remember when I turned 17 (100 years ago). It was a fun time in life.



Hi Sherry! I finally got a chance to pop on and see what's new. Love all your photos with the special effects. Bet you did have fun playing around with them. I missed my chance since they are already gone. Boy, you gotta be fast! I also loved your flower photos. You sure must have a lovely neighborhood.

Looking forward to seeing what you have in store for us next.

Do tell! What's the name of this fun little app?

Hi Marie!

Thank you! My neighborhood - and many of the surrounding residential streets within a mile or two radius - is full of all kinds of interesting flowers, gardens and front yards, but you have to be on the lookout for these things and not just kind of zooming by them in a hurry to really notice! I will go out to run typical errands and sometimes I will alter my route a bit, choosing to walk down a different street here and there. That's how I stumble upon a lot of these flowers.

A few weeks ago, I had to run out for an emergency mission to get a cheap coffee maker after my old one died (I cannot be without a coffee maker). I went to a store I don't usually shop at just to get the best deal. This allowed me to walk past my usual destinations and onto a couple of side streets I am less familiar with. One street had some interesting front yards, with cactus, rock gardens and colored glass, and then another street had the flowers I showed you on the previous page (the cascading pink ones, etc.). It was a bounty of flowers! I did not have my real camera with me that day - only the cell phone camera - but I knew I wanted to get pictures with the camera.

So, the following week, on Mother's Day, I marched myself back down to that one street with the bounty o' flowers (over a mile away) and took photos. I was hoping the flowers had not changed in appearance too much. That tends to happen - I'll see a gorgeous rose with a vibrant, rich color one week and then the next week that same rose has lost some petals and looks haggard!:rotfl2: Fortunately, these particular flowers looked just about the same.

I do take pictures of many other things besides flowers when I am out walking to and fro, but beautiful flowers are always a big hit.

As for the effects pictures - I'm glad you enjoyed them! I don't know what the deal is with Photobucket. I have no idea why they offer some really cool effects - like the holiday effects from last year and these Disney Parks ones - and then pull them just a week or two later!

First of all, as far as I know, Photobucket never announced that they were offering Disney Parks effects. I checked their Facebook page just to be sure, and I saw no mention of Disney Parks effects for the last month.

So how was anyone to know that there were Disney Parks effects there, unless you just happened to be in the editing section and saw the small Disney Parks box? That's what happened to me - I think I was going in to crop a picture because it had a little too much space on the end, and I just happened to notice that there was suddenly a Disney Parks box.

A week later that same box was gone!:confused3

I assume that Disney and Photobucket must have had an agreement to offer the Disney Parks effects only for a certain period of time - and it is all in conjunction with the current Share the Memories promo/campaign that Disney has been pushing. But, really...only a week or two at the most? And no announcement about it? How odd!

At least the holiday effects stayed up on Photobucket for a few weeks last year, BUT they mysteriously disappeared right before the major holiday they were celebrating - Christmas! What sense does that make? Wouldn't people want to use some of their Christmas photos with the holiday effects?

In any case, my advice to anyone who edits photos on Photobucket (and they have a new editing feature that is more professional than the last one they had) is that if you suddenly notice a new or special option for edits that you have not seen before, and you like it, start using it immediately and get those effects on as many photos as you possibly can right away, because the option could be gone in a week!

I did see one thread on the other side of the DIS (the WDW side, but I can't recall which forum) that was about the Photobucket effects. A DIS'er was asking if anyone else had noticed that there were Disney Parks effects in Photobucket, and she showed an example of one of her pictures. (She actually used a fireworks effect that I never got a chance to use - because it did not look right with any photo I tried it on!) There were a few replies and then it stopped. I am guessing that the effects disappeared before anyone else got to do anything with them.

I was really starting to get the hang of working with the different intricacies of editing the effects - adjusting the sizes, figuring out the exact placement within the photos, layering one effect on top of itself or on top of another effect, using the effects on PhotoPass pictures that already had borders and effects, etc. - and then it was all taken away from me in the blink of an eye!:confused::rotfl2:



Those pictures are really good. I wish I could do this.

Kaitlin -

Thank you! You could definitely do it if Photobucket had not removed the Disney Parks option. It takes a minute to get used to the effects and learn exactly how to size them/layer them/use them to where they will be most effective, but once you get the hang of it, it's easy - and fun to go through your pictures and try to find the ones where the effects are a perfect fit (not all of them are).
 

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