Memorial Day - Olyphant, PA

Before:

After:

What I Did:

1. Picture taken very overexposed

2. Opened in Elements

3. Used the Adjust Lighting

4. Used Levels

5. Saturated with color

6. Looks a little too worked on so probably going to work on dialing it back but I'm not sure if it looks too worked when you look at the picture alone. Looks really worked in comparison.

Snorkeling in the Bahamas

Before:

After:

What I Did:

1. Opened in Elements

2. Used levels to add contrast, dialed down Blue and added A LOT of red

3. Selected the ocean floor which was too green and just altered that segment

Chesapeake Bay Sunset, Kent Island, MD

SOOC:

After

What I Did:

1. Opened in Elements

2. Straightened

3. Enhanced with Levels

Poplar Island Through A Window At The Back Of A Bus

Before

After

What I did:

1. Opened RAW in elements

2. New layer <>

3. adjusted levels

4. adjusted color

5. vignet

6. flatten image

Whole Wheat Pizza

Before

After

What I Did:

1. In Elements, adjusted light

2. Color corrected by taking out yellow and adding blue

Moby Dick's Eye, Santa Barbara Pier, CA

Before

After

What I Did:

1. Soft Light and vignet

Another After

What I Did;

1. Opened Raw image

2. Practiced color correction and levels

Santa Barbara Countryside, CA

Before

After

What I Did:

1. Soft Light and Saturation/Hue tweaks

Robert Is Here Produce Stand Birds, FL

Before

After

What I Did:

1. Opened RAW photo in Elements

2. Applied Soft Light Blend

3. Adjust New Fill Layer <>

4. Vignet on birds

After Again

What I Did:

1. Used newly learned skills and redid Levels and bumped up Saturation/Hue

Snowy Annapolis, MD

Before

After

What I Did:

1. Enhanced in Picasa

2. Used Elements to add Soft light, adjust hue/saturation

3. Add vignet around focal point

Narragansett Bay, RI

Before

After

What I Did:

1. Opened RAW photo in Elements

2. Soft light, Adjust New Fill Layer

3. Vignet in light reflection in water

Sail Boat Off Marco Island, FL

Before

After

What I Did:

1. Simple enhacing in Picasa.

After Again

What I Did:

1. Used Elements and the raw photo and added soft light layer.

2. Then Adjust New Fill Layer

3. Vignet

St. Michael's Magnolia Blossom, MD

Before

After

What I Did:

1. Enhanced in Picasa 

2. Used Elements to add vignet

Adirondacks, NY

Before

After

What I Did:

1. Vignet

Sante Fe Building, NM

Before

After

What I Did:

1. Enhanced in Picasa

2. Used Elements to first apply Soft Light blend to new layer

3. Adjusted opacity

4. Adjusted Layer Fill

5. No vignet but thought about applying one.

Jim Thorpe, PA

Before

After

What I Did: 

1. First altered in Picasa

2. In Elements, magic wand selected the sky then Enhanced Color to bring out blues

3. Magic wand selected the statue, Enhanced Color to bring out bronze

4. Vignetted