Pizzaz Week 1

In this lesson we touched on several filters that come with the PSE7 program. The first two pictures show the before and after of using the Equalize filter. I selected part of the picture, and then the entire image was equalized based on the light and dark pixels in the selected area.

before

after

In the following pictures the sky was separated from the rest of the image and then both images were corrected separately.

before


after

There's a nifty filter called "Correct Camera Distortion" :

before



after

The blur filter is used in the next 2 pictures:

zoom blur

radial blur

The next filter was the Gaussian Blur, which is nice for softening an image:

Gwyn - before

Gwyn - after

I used the rough pastel filter on the flower arrangement: