Messing with Photo Editing

I'm a "mac/apple" kind of girl and even though I do have that Picasa account, I prefer using iphoto to edit my pictures.  I usually don't edit my digital pictures unless I have a really good reason too some of that being, wanting to put particular pictures up on my wall, or cropping someone I don't like out of a picture (*evil smile*).

BEFORE

AFTER

This picture was taken on Christmas Day 2010 when we were hit by a huge snow-storm in the Kansas City area.  So, to pass the time as we waited for the turkey to roast, my husband shoveled snow while the kids played (yes, I was not involved in any of it - only the picture-taking part).

I made a few SLIGHT changes to the original picture to get to my final version.  The first thing I did was up the exposure so that the background and sky wouldn't appear so dark and cloudy.  Then, I upped the contrast as well so that the colors would stand out against the white background.  To also help in that area, I saturated the picture a little more and then sharpened it to make all the rough edges more smooth looking.  All this was done in iphoto of course and then uploaded to this site where it automatically shows up on my Picasa account.