Photo manipulation

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This photo was taken when I went to Fredericton, PEI

Here is a picture of a dish I had in cuba. First, I had to resize the picture smaller to focus on the dish and removed the outer sides of the phot to deemphasize objects like the piece of bread and crumbs. Next step was croping the photo to remove the other unwanted parts of the photo. I then rotated the picture to get a better angle of the shot or to just center it, because the photo was a bit bright and had a glare to it I reduced the white balance to make it a bit darker. The vibrance was increased slightly to reveal the colours of the redness and dulls it out a bit so more details can be seen. Exposure was decreased to show better textures, things like the shrimp and the pasta has more body to it, you can now see it more clearly. The last thing I did was increase the contrast to bring out the picture more, adding colour.

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First of all, the photo was cropped so the car would be in an upright position. I lowered the exposure to make the photo alot more dull, more like an old fashioned photo. Reducing the sharpness makes it look like the car was shot going at high speeds, adds a bit of blurriness. The saturation was deceased signifigantly so the photo would be in a black and white aspect.

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Here is a picture of a rainbow i took off the internet. First step was increasing the exposure to make the photo more textured. Clarity was added so it makes the elements in the photo more appealing. I added a bit of warmness to give it a more autumn feel to the environment. I made it brighter so the colour in the rainbow would be more noticeable. Also the orange was reduced which made the leaves more red to show the changing of the colours.