Beth+Shively+Flowers

I used Adobe Photoshop 6.0.1 to edit my pictures. The first thing I did was go through my original seven pictures and check them for possibilities for cropping. I wanted to see if I could make the pictures cleaner and the subject matter easier to focus on. I cropped three of the pictures.

Before After Before

After Before After The cropping made the biggest different on the close-ups, although cutting out the garbage, such as the edge of the lawnmower, made the longer-range pictures look nicer. Because I was using a completely new camera, I had a hard time sometimes finding the edges of the frame, allowing things like the lawnmower to sneak in. In addition to cropping, I also played around with some of the different filters. I must confess that I had no real purpose in doing this, but it was really fun to see all the different possibilities for altering the pictures. Here are some of the results with the filter listed above the picture. These were all filtered from the last picture above. Texture – Canvas: My fiancé’s family owns a photo store and studio, and they occasionally use this feature to create photographs that look like paintings.

Paint Daubs Ink Outlines



Motion Blur set at 23 pixels