Natalie+Baum+-+Photo+Editing

For digital editing, I used the Adobe Photoshop Elements (the cheap version of Adobe Photoshop).

The first picture I played with was one from my first photos page. My goal was to do something interesting with the background or to highlight the contrast between the foreground and background.

Before was kind of blurry all around but with an especially blurry background:

I lightened the shadows and adjusted the midtone contrasts to bring out the background details a bit more. Sharpening the imaged brings out a bit more detail on the leaves and flowers.

Next I played with an evening photo with a very dark background:

Lightening the shadows revealed a shrub behind the planter:

Finally, I wanted to highlight an interesting portion of the photo, so I used crop to select a smaller setion of the photo and zoomed in.