Edited Pictures From My Digital Design Course!

Hello! Welcome back to my blog, I've missed you! So once again I am taking a different step from my normal routine, as we were given a project that included editing some of the pictures we took for our Visual Scavenger Hunt Slide show! These two photos I am posting to this blog are my favorites, and down below i will attach the original photos as well as the edited versions, as well as a description about them and some questions I had to answer!

This is my first edit of my project. I loved this one, as I made a lot of changes, but they only come off as subtle! I don't exactly remember what I used in this edit, but I will try to the best of my ability to remember what it is.

In this edit, I: turned the contrast up and the brightness down, sharpened the rock itself so that it wouldn't blend in with the blurriness, turn up red highlights as well as mid-tones and shadows, and then I did the same for green. I turned up the vibrance so that it would make the colors pop. That is pretty much for the editing portion of this photo!

I chose these edits because, when you look at the original photo, the natural colors from the rock were dull, and I knew that I wanted to make the reds stand out more. If you can also see from the original photo, the green overtook the photo, and rather than emphasize it, I knew that I wanted it to be a background color, more than the main focus. I also chose these edits to emphasize the shape, line and texture in the picture.

This is my second edit that I favorite. I liked this edit because it really brings out the contrast between the mushroom and the grass. I also like this edit because it brings out a sense of individuality, being the mushroom all alone in the blades of grass. Without the edit, I would think that it wouldn't be as important.

In this edit, I added sharpness to the mushroom to bring out all of the details that are on it. I also blurred out the blades of grass that were in front of the mushroom. I turned up contrast, as well as turned brightness down.

I chose these edits because I knew that I wanted to make the mushroom stand out from the blades of grass. I also took picture at this angle because I knew that adding the perspective would make the mushroom pop. I also chose to edit this picture this way because the brightness of the original picture just didn't give us any interesting details, but I think that with this edit, it definitely draws in the audience to the picture. I also think that with the texture and contrast in this picture, it is alluring.