First_Book

=First Book= =edited by Sharon Woodbridge=

The software I used to edit this photo was Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006. I started with this photo:

Which I thought was a little gray so I adjusted the color using Colour and Saturation tool on the Touchup menu. To change the color automatically you select something in the photograph that is gray and it adjusts the color. After the color adjustment it looked like this:

I thought the background was a little busy so I used the smart erase and the clone brush tools to remove the background. I also used a spot remove brush in a few places and selectively cropped the picture. I also added a cute frame using the Frames and Mats tool found on the Effects menu under Edges. The finished products:

I had so much fun with the Smart Erase tool I decided to edit one of my vacation photos to remove some of the extra people that made the photo seem busy, including the one in the yellow bathing suit in the foreground.