Photography Editing Continued

In the previous post, you saw some of what photo editing programs can do.  Things like cleaning up backgrounds, beautifying faces, lightening up and darkening different areas.  In this post, I've changed the same image to B&W in a few different ways, although there are almost unlimited variations possible.  And I've also changed the color presentation a with a few of the almost infinite possibilities.

Why would you choose to have something done like the below examples?  Perhaps you wouldn't want your portrait to look similar to others, maybe one of the variations just clicked with you, or you were after a more artistic rendering.  You could even have the final image look like an oil painting - there are programs that do that.

Here is the same photo from the previous post in several variations:

Original photo cropped - notice person in background and shadows on face. 

Removed distracting person, fixed shadows on face, but kept original colors. 

The remaining photos below are a few samples of what can be done.  As mentioned above, it is really unlimited, but I liked these variations the best.

What else could have been done?  The whole background could have been dropped out and changed.  Perhaps have them sitting by a stream or at the beach?  Of course.

Hope you enjoyed this post.