Just let it slide (changes)

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Lens-Artists Challenge #294: Before and After

A bit of photo editing using Corel PaintShop Pro Ultimate 2023.
I went into one of my must sort and file away folders and select some photos from the fifteen photos at random, all from my garden in November 2022

Original on the left, photo edit on the right. Slide away

An attempt to make a not very good photo of Crinum flowers into something. Darken the background to make the white and dead flowers prominent and add a dash of white

Emphasise the death of the red Hippeastrums. Darken background increase saturation, remove the garden hose

A bit of work on this Agapanthus bud. First, get rid of it’s mate, a square crop works well, darken the background, fill focus on the buds added highlights

These buds needed a bit of a lift too. Increased shadows, decreased overall lightness, increased mid-tones. The background was still too light and distracting so an elliptical vignette applied

A tiny Blue-banded Bee asleep under a red Salvia flower was a bit lost in the overall image.
Increased the overall lightness and saturation a little, then a close crop to square.
Don’t be limited by photo dimensions, quite often flowers and macro photos work well in the square format.

Beckys Square Photo Challenge is starting again next month so have some practise. I often set my camera to 1:1 format so no cropping is needed. I have been adding an appropriate song for Beckys challenge, can’t Let It Slide next month. Hope you enjoyed your slide through my photo edits Max Merritt & The Meteors were an Aotearoa/New Zealand group.

35 thoughts on “Just let it slide (changes)”

  1. Nicely done and interesting to see your approach on these. I always thought I’d hate editing, but I’ve found I really enjoy it for both photography and writing.

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  8. Nice edits, Brian! Sorry to be late in responding. For some reason, your link ended up in my spam folder. Not sure what tripped the trigger, but lately, I’ve seen Akismet make more mistakes than usual. 🙂

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    1. Thanks John. I only composed that post yesterday afternoon. Yes I have some that are always in my trash folder not spam, you are one of those but have no idea why 🤔

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  11. Your images were well chosen for the one Brian – all started out just fine and then got still better. The agapanthus is my favorite, that’s a beauty. And you rescued the little bee very effectively. Great job (and well done on the sliders!)

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