Overdone

And what kind of magic is that?? :)

Not magic by me of course, just magic that photoshop offers. I've tinkered with writing programs to manipulate images like photoshop does just for fun, but everytime I use it I am still amazed.

All I do myself is move the contrast or saturation sliders up and recently I have been going through a phase where I darken the edges. I like this much better for some reason, but sometimes go too far as I did with some recently.

http://www.redscreen.net/photolog/fun.html you may find this useful to get that "lomo look" in photoshop.

ahhh, i'm not much of a purist (sometimes anyway) so i still love your photos. deep respect for them. yes. ahem.

anyway, in reply to mark's suggestion, i have tried the lomo look and it works nicely but the thing is if you try to impose the lomo look on pictures that weren't lomomized in the first place, it later strikes you as kind of inappropriate, and in some cases, the pictures end up looking not so good as it did without it. but that's just me. after lomomizing about ten photographs i removed the effect on about seven of them. bah. waste of time. that's how i pass my day. :)

Thanks for the link Mark. Actually, that looks like what I did, I just did it one step at a time.

As for being inapropriate, I've never really thought of it as inapropriate, but I do feel it looks a bit silly trying to pretend I had a lomo when everyone knows I didn't. Except, I wasn't trying to pretend i had a lomo per-say, I just like high-contrast, high-saturation images. When I started playing wth them, I also realized I like the edges a bit darker or less-contrast... just my preference i guess.

Of course, as I say, with these I went too far, and I was just too lazy to go back. I learned how far is too far now though...

Photoshop has an "autocontrast" function that does a nice job crisping up photos.

Here's an EXCELLENT practical article about using levels in Photoshop. It has changed the way that I prep my photos:

http://www.photoblink.com/info.asp?Article=articles/levels.xml

Nice! I like the lomostyle!! :)
Thanks for the links!