Before and After

Before and After is hosted by Monica at Pixel Perfect Blog. To see her edit and others, click on the button below.

Here is a picture of Brad wearing my uncle's denim jacket and hat. 

I sat down in front of him to quickly get some pictures but I really should have taken my time and worked on composition. 

And apparently, I need to work on focus, too.

I used Pioneer Woman's sharpen and define action in PSE9.

I cloned out the vacuum cord in Lightroom 3 (still need to learn PSE) and added round corners and the watermark.

I've been using PSE9 for some edits lately more than Lightroom because I read an article online (I can't remember where) that when files are edited in Lightroom it actually softens the photo and you loose some data. 

In the article there were two examples of the same photo, one edited in Photoshop and the other in Lightroom. The woman's freckles and lines were blurred out in Lightroom when edited to black and white but were still defined when edited to black and white in Photoshop. The article then stated this was why professionals mainly use Photoshop. She then said that she uses Lightroom for her family photos but Photoshop when editing her client's photos.

I found it interesting and have been doing my own experiments to see if I can see a difference. I think I have seen a slight one when I look closely at the photos. 

Anyway, there is my before and after....kind of boring but I just "fixed" the photo, didn't do anything fun.

I can't wait for Spring and to be able to capture more color outside. :-)