Fun with Fotos!

I enjoy taking pictures! I'm sure this comes as no surprise to most of you. :) And in the past year, I have discovered that our camera takes pretty good close ups. I love our camera! I highly recommend Cannons (this is not a paid advertisement!) :) Here is the camera I use. I also have fun editing the pictures after I have loaded them on to the computer. The program I use the most, Picasa, has several editing tools. So the following are several pictures that I have taken recently and how I have edited them. (warning: many pictures to follow!) :)

First a cool close up of a visitor on our front porch:


Now a look at a dogwood
This one is straight out of camera (SOOC) to our pc:


For some reason, pictures seem to have a grayish cast to them. I first did a little tweaking with the color under "tuning" in Picasa.
Much better!

And now for a little fun! I increase the Saturation (found under "More Effects")


Here's another flower: (SOOC)

A little fine tuning and...


I have more in an album online (click here). I put some of how I edit pictures of people, reducing redeye and improving less quality pictures.

Anyone else have fun with their pictures? :) I would love to see some of your tweaking. Another great editing tool I've used is FotoFlexor.com. You don't have to download software, just upload the photo to their site and save it to your computer when you're done. I used this software to put the frame around the picture on my header.

I hope everyone has a great Saturday and a restful Sunday!

Blessings!

Edited to add: I hope you have enjoyed my pictures. Please remember that they are my property, not public domain. Thank you! :)