Ordinary Filters

In this photo I merely reduced noise from noise filter and smart sharpen. It really brightened this photo.

Filter: Artistic/Mosaic

In this photo I used the shadow and highlight feature. Then I dodged the leaves in the background to bring out their color. I also cloned the bright spot from Donald's beak. I used the artistic/mosaic filter.

Dodge/Burn

I was very disappointed when my granddaughter's first birthday photo came out so bad--it's a great picture of the cake, not so great of her. Although I have made her more visible, I have made the cake pink and the photo seems grainy. Any suggestions on how I could improve it even more?

Color, Hue and Saturation

Okay, so I guess there is no longer any such thing as a bad picture, only bad editing. I could be guilty of both...lol. Here is a Hindu shrine although you would never know it from the picture on the left, so I selected the barred area using the rectangular marquee tool, lightened and bumped up hue and saturation, added red and some blue. Then I had to make the grass green again so I selected it using the polygonal lasso, selected green from the popdown menu and voila the grass is green again. I also cropped out the chain link fence. At least now you can tell what it is!

Color, Hue and Saturation

This is a picture of a mustard field I took in Bangladesh. I have always loved the analogous colors in this photo but felt they were dull to poor light from so much smog. This was my attempt to correct it. I tried auto correct first, then bumped up the green, yellow and blue colors. I enhanced the hue and saturation next giving it more light. I then cropped the branches in the upper left as I found them distracting. I think it's definitely better, but more practice could make it much better.

Ta-Dah!!!!

It still seems harder than it should be!

Struggling with Photoshop

So, my classmates are doing some amazing things and making Photoshop look easy. I, on the otherhand, have been struggling. Cropping was easy, the rest was a challenge. I finally succeeded in giving my granddaughter a Mickey Mouse nose. I wanted to also give her Mickey's shoes but gave up. Is there a key or tool that copies an object without having to outline it? And after you select it, do you need to fill it with a color or is there a tool that picks up the color too? Help!!!

More Landscape

Although I do not do this area justice with my amateur photography, I was reminded during this assignment of the beauty of my surroundings. I am indeed fortunate.

Darling Hill

Again, Darling Hill

My favorite, Willoughby Lake
from a lookout on Mt. Hor

I like this one too however my photography does not begin to capture the beauty of this sunset.

Landscape

The school bell on the Burke Town Offices:
Finally a day with blue skies!

Victorian Era houses on Park St. in Lyndonville

The Darling Mansion

Willoughby Gap from Darling Hill