Before and After…

Okay, I’m learning Photoshop CS4 and am playing around with various pictures.  Some I want to publish and some are just for fun.  Here’s the belated one for last week….

Here’s the before… we were at Busch Gardens a couple of months ago in the chimp section.  Here’s Joshua “in the jungle” with the chimp statues…

Here’s the after…

After adjusting the balance with the histogram, I turned down the red saturation and upped the greens.  It makes the leaves look a bit better.  I also added a vignette (burned-in edge) to create a bit of drama.  If I had more time, I would have adjusted his under-eye circles and worked on his little face a bit, but it’s still a cute picture.  He looks so vulnerable, like “who would leave me in the jungle with these chimps?”