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I really love these cats. I want to show how their interactions are so dynamic and yet so random. This is just the start

 Don't mind me, just eatin' some food

Whelp, time to go bother Smoothie

WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY ROOM

Oops, maybe not, what's outside

I'm a bird!

Something along these lines. I haven't worked it out perfectly haha :)

Cloning, Painting, and Text

Cloning

Before:

After:

I sued the cloning tool to remove the boats from the background. It went a lot better than I expected! I think it leaves more attention for the main sailboat.

Text

Before:

 After:

I added very simple text that I felt really clarified what Smoothie

was thinking as she noticed my cat in her room

Paint

Before:

 After:

 Using the paint brush I was able to remove the black section of the background which really makes the fierce yawn the only part of this picture. The rest is literally nothing but bright white light. 

Filters

Original:

 With cartoon and softglow filters

 For this photo. I applied the cartoon filter first and liked how it changed mostly the trees but I wanted to do something with the intense blue sky. When I chose the softglow filter I felt like it adequately pulled the sky into the background and let the trees stand out more.  

Original:

 Wing blown and burned:

For this one, I chose to use the wind filter. I thought it was cool how it made the flowers seem to be moving. I used the burn tool to darken the background a little, letting the focus be on the moving flowers. 

Dodge and Burn

I really liked using the Burn tool. I found darkening

 the picture, and having it look natural, much 

easier than the dodge tool.

Original:

 Burned:

I mostly burned the bee (making it look darker) and around the flower, I used the dodge tool a little on the flower to make it look thinner as lighter seemed to show through it more.

2 Color/Lighting adjusted photos

 I call this one demon kitty. I highlighting just his eyes and used the "auto color enhance." I also did this to his ears. I thought it really brought out his evil side. I also messed around with the saturation/hue of the grass in the background so that it seems as though the color gets more unnatural as it gets closer to my mischievous little kitty. 

This was a fairly simple edit but I actually kinda like how it came out. I increased the brightness of the overall photo slightly and then severely increased the contrast. The result really brings out the outline of my brother and gives a cool split to the photo. Kind of a yin and yang effect, kind of. 

Photoshop

I had some trouble trying to figure out the GIMP program. It's unlike any photoshop program I've used before. It took me quite some time to even get just the spider transferred. I couldn't figure out how to blur the edges of it very well so that it looked more smooth. Any tips? Any advice I looked up confused me further :/

Here are the originals

Landscape

Sorry I'm delayed in posting these!

 This was taken at a field near my school. I really like how the clouds have this glow as they near the trees. The colors came out really vivid and I love it. The clouds are at a diagonal while the horizon is fairly straight across. I think the different directions give the photo something interesting. 

 This photo was taken near the Winooski river with the mill in the background. I like how the water is flowing so powerfully on the left side as nature would have it but then there is this ugly thing on the side from the mill that shows how much the Winooski river has been made disgusting by our industry. Also, I feel as though the rule of thirds worked out with the water/trees/sky being three layers to the photo. 

 This photo was taken downtown near the water front. I like how the trees along the bottom block out any human activity down below so this view looks like it could be on some island somewhere with no one else around. 

Not sure what prompted this photo (also near waterfront) but I really like how it came out. The water in the fountain is doing it's on squiggly thing while the rest of the photo is clearly standing still. I also found it cool that I was able to capture a near all blue sky on the top with crisp white clouds only in the middle.