photostory

Above is the original, I removed the beam and the orange string in the background and used the clone tool to add more flowers and leaves!

Here I took a beautiful yellow sunflower played with the hue and saturation of it and got an orange sunflower!

Then I turned it into an artistic paint!

This one I cropped and played with the lightening tools.

Turned white flowers into yellow with the color, hue and saturation tools

My photostory

Portraits

Having five children you can just imagine trying to get a NICE photo of them together! My difficulty is trying to get the to stop fooling around to get one. I thank whoever made the digital camera because I probably take at least fifty photos just to get one half decent one! The fake smile is awful, the fooling around is always so trying to get a great photo is almost impossible!

 I love black and white photos, having them be serious I think let people use their imaginations to make their own stories as to the expressions.

Again, trying to get a good photo! Even below when we decide to do a serious one, some are trying so hard not to smile and laugh!

Text, Clone, Patch and Paint

This is the original picture. I used the clone tool to be able to take the little guy off the flower! 

I used the text and brush tools to add a watermark to add to this photo.

This is the original that I turned into an artistic paint!

Photostory

I think I am going to go with gardening for my photostory. I love gardening and love all of the different colors of the flowers!

Dodge and Burn

original

I cropped the background out and to focus on my daughter. I then tried to lighten with the dodge and burn.

original

Photo Adjustment

                                             ORIGINAL

                   In this photo I played with the coloring and the lighting to get the water to really pop out.

For this photo I focused on the coloring of the flower bud. In the original it is a light pink, I darkened the color a little and turned the back ground to a black and white. Since the little guy on the bud was already black I did not try to play with him!

                                                      Original

photo editing

This was the outcome of the two photos from below. I tried using GIMP at first but the tutorials were a little confusing at times so I switched to Photoshop to see the difference. I liked Photoshop much better, it was not as confusing, but I still had a hard time with cutting. It took several hours to try to cut out the cow, I'm not sure if I have a newer version but some of the tabs the tutorials wanted you to use were named differently. 

Landscape

The first five pictures are just a few pictures from a hike on the long trail to Sterling pond

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This is in Pittsburgh, PA  from a trip that I took last year!

                                                                       Shelburne, VT