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tonite @ work i took a break to watch the moon rise. this helps keep me sane??

  Have just not felt like trying to do anything--a few minutes ago my husband came to me and said--come outside and try to take a picture of this moon--so that is what I attempted to do--and then just did some cropping.
Moon fire before fire after
before After

Sure hope no one comes down witht he flu during Christmas.

I only cropped, adjusted contrast, straightened one and sharpened a couple.  
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Thanks for this theme, Kerry!  I've really enjoyed it!  I know my pics of the hawk aren't as good as some have been on here, but I'm proud of them.....I've tried to capture one for years and God finally saw fit to let me do it this morning!  Woo-Hoo!  What a morning!

Hope y'all enjoy!

Enjoy The Beauty Of Winter!
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 After

Here's a great solution for a good picture that isn't all that great.

A friend caught us in this moment just before my husband changed into his tux for our wedding. It's one of my favorites of that day -- except for, well, all the stuff around us. Original. So, first I "cleaned up" the cabin -- who wants the trash can and a pot of slaw in a wedding photo, right?  Retouch 1. Next I decided to focus on what made this such a good pic - our moment. So, out came the blur filter. Retouch 2 Retouch 3  Retouch 4. And finally a bit of cropping Retouch 5

What do you like best?

Some of these are okay.  Others I question---
They looked one way on my monitor. After I uploaded the images, they looked different.  So, in my opinion or in my eyes, the befores look better than the after!  Enjoy just the same!

nephew before
after
lantern before
lantern after
niece before
niece after
winter before
witner after
trees before
trees after

One random shot from the summer. I was trying to teach myself PS.  After many attempts and some hair pulling out, this is the result.

PhotoShop Before
PhotoShop After
(The colors in the after shot are more vivid on my monitor at home..weird)

... to all of you who helped with their hints & tips about how to change backgrounds. Experimenting with Magic Cut and Magic Wand tools (in ArcSoft PhotoStudio) I came up with:

Another Dahlia
(lost the original of this in the process tho')

Another Miss M.  
( from this one)

Tried to capture a couple of wild and free spirits
Before After
 Before After

Sure hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!!!:):)

My feeble effort of the theme.

Nap Time Before
Nap Time After It's only a dream Cindy, Paulamouse is hairy, but not THAT hairy.

My gf wanted this change.  Is it obvious whether I added glasses, or took them away?

Yes, I was on the road again and on a cloudy day took these.  before 1and  after 1. Stopped at an intersection I found before 2 after 2.

Check out the colors....
Damn Lightpoles!!! before and  after Ahhhhh much better. This picture was great before but a little photoshop and viola after.

Say

It

With

Flowers
(last one is the original before any editing)

This flower was given to me by a gardener friend saying it was the first blossom of its kind (Dahlia?) to open this summer - and she gave it to me!

Here's a couple more for the theme.  On the first one, I did the spot coloring (I'm getting to REALLY like this....); on the second, I cropped, removed the glare from glasses/heads, removed "rabbit ears", and fixed spaces in the curtain toppers.

before after
before after

Hope y'all enjoy!

i posted this bug before but this is what i did to him after

I've been nervous about posting self portraits.  They just seem so revealing.  I think it's like hearing my voice on a recording...I never like what I hear.  I'm going to take a chance today.  These are the first two before versions:

Portrait 1 Before
Portrait 2 Before

On these next two I've adjusted levels and saturation slightly.  I've also blurred the background just a touch.

Portrait 1 After
Portrait 2 After

Finally, here is a black and white version of the first portrait. and a cropped version of the second portrait.

I always liked this view but I wondered how it might have looked, say a hundred years ago.

Before

After

Howdy folks! On a roadtrip last weekend I came across some very tall grass. I found the image rather pleasing but was not happy with the upper right hand background so I fixed it with the clone tool as well as the healing brush. After that I tweaked the saturation just a touch and Voila. I like the softness of this image. Any comments are more then welcomed.
BTW folks I can't seem to set the tags for my shots. I click on the change button in my preview and nothing happens. Any advice?

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I have a ways to go, but I'm still in there plugging....

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My BIG TIME THANKS go to Kerry and Moose for coaching me on the focus setting on my camera!!  These are the results (no manipulation, other than changing to b/w) 1 2 3

This is from this morning; not very colorful, but I sure was glad to see it!

Hope y'all enjoy!  ("After" explanations in comments.)