Five Photoshopped pictures

I spent a while walking around Center City taking photos, especially in Rittenhouse Square.  The Christmas decorations at night make for some great pictures.  The second photo is from Rittenhouse Square, and I didn't edit it as much as the other ones because it already had so much going on.  I just fooled around with things like brightness, contrast and saturation.  The third photo is also from Rittenhouse Square, but it didn't have any lights or anything.  It was so simple and dark and colorless that I wanted to challenge myself to make it bright and full of color.  I used the quick selection tool and the lasso tool to select parts of the tree, and used the paint bucket tool to fill them in.  I think it ended up looking like one of those trees with the knitted covers.  It's more silly and fun than the others.
The first picture is actually of a window display at the Tiffany's on Walnut street.  Since it was the first picture I edited, I ended up mostly playing around with filters and contrast and brightness.  I didn't have a specific goal in mind except hiding the reflection of my camera.
The fourth photo I took while walking along the bike path.  I liked the way the light was sort of "contained" by the leaves.  It reminded me of a galaxy, so I decided to make it a cool color instead of the usual streetlight orange-yellow.
The fifth picture is of a tree in front of someone's house.  They were having a party, so I got some weird looks from arriving guests when I was taking a picture of their tree.  All I could think of when I saw the tree was the star that led the wise men to Jesus on the first christmas (which is weird because I'm atheist, but whatever).  I decided to make the lantern look more like a real star by using the lasso tool to select it and make it brighter.  Then I used the magic wand tool to select everything in the background and make it darker and blurred, so that the lantern stood out more and looked like it was glowing.
This project turned out to be great fun and I'm actually pretty proud of some of these pictures.  I think I'm going to continue to do photography and photo editing, and maybe make a Tumblr to put the pictures on.


Photo 1:  A display window at Tiffany's

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AA Q2 Edited Photo 1


Photo 2: Decorated trees in Rittenhouse Square

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Photo 3: Undecorated trees in Rittenhouse Square

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Photo 4: A streetlamp on the bike path

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Photo 5: A tree outside someone's house

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AA Q2 Edited Photo 5
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AA Q2 Edited Photo 1
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AA Q2 Edited Photo 2
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AA Q2 Edited Photo 3
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AA Q2 Edited Photo 4
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AA Q2 Edited Photo 5
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