I consider myself an amatuer and I have no hopes of becoming a professional, but I'm trying to get myself over the hump of wanting to pay for cute kiddie pics of my son. Besides learning to take better pictures where I really struggle to picking which ones to edit. I posted an album of most of the shots I took, taking out the truely awful but leaving the rest in. If you had to pick a few pictures to spend time editing, which do you think have the most potential? And if so what editing fixes would you suggest I look at?
*Yes I know a clean face and no mark by his eye would have helped, but sometimes you have to just start shooting, and I can play with trying to edit some of that out.
I have Adobe Photoshop Elements 13 for editing, in the past I have mostly used Picassa
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This is an entirely subjective question. You want to edit/enhance your favorite pictures.
Most of us struggle with narrowing down our images, often ending up with may too many, too similar images.
So here is the process I suggest:
Go through all the images again. You still have a quite a few that are out of focus. (like the 3rd and 4th shot). Editing won't fix this, so get rid of those. This probably eliminates about half your shots.
Then go through and look for similar/duplicate shots. For example, the 3 shots of him standing on a log -- Pick your favorite out of the 3, and ditch the other 2.
Now with what's left... go through your images. Some software lets you "rate" the images.... Rate them from "ok" to "good" to "love this image."
If you have 3-5 images that you love, those are the ones you try to improve upon from editing. You may also have a few "good" images that *might* be great with editing. So take a look at them, and figure out if editing will elevate the image for you. For example, a few of your images are cute but slightly underexposed. You might find that brightening up the image really works.
In my mind, there are 2 types of editing that you can play with. The first is "processing" the image -- Perhaps cropping it, adjusting the white balance, making the whole image a little darker or brighter.
Then there is "editing" or "photoshopping" the substance -- removing a smudge of dirt from the face, for example. (to more extreme things like removing people, changing smiles, etc, etc).
