Photo Challenge: Editing Photos

Alicia's now has monthly photo challenges. This month's challenge was using a photo editing program to enhance and fix your pictures. I have been waiting all month to post these.

I use a few different photo editing programs, but for this first one I used Picasa Photo editing, a free program through google.

This is a shot I took of Alex back in January. This was taken with my Rebel G Xti. I set my camera on the automatic no flash mode. Very cute picture I think, but then I did this.

I used the Focal B&W feature on Picassa. It is so simple, no drawling lines around anything, just simply adjusting the radius and intensity of the color area. Something so magical and precious about this one.

And anyone who has read my blog for a bit will remember this picture..

I used Pixelmator, an awesome but more complex photo editing software and added this.

And I recently did my first "family photo shoot". When we were in Utah, I took my sister-in-laws family photo. Let me just say, it was harder than I thought it would be. As I downloaded the pictures there were some good ones, but then there were ones like thisHello off centered (and not in a good way)! Hello shadows and bright spots!
But a little cropping, a few pushes of the antique button, edges blurred a bit (all done in iPhoto 09) and I got this
Thanks Alica for the great Photo Challenge!