Welcome to my new section Before and After.

I love editing images. A lot of people call it 'Cheating' but I like to think of it as art ! Being able to manipulate images is no easy task. It takes a lot of practice, some good photoshop advice and an eye for what looks right and what looks over processed. I've picked up these skills over the past 3 years. Thats a long time to learn a trade like this and I'm only at the beginning of the journey. I'm no pro, far from it. But I wanted to demonstrate that everyone can do this, with practice and the right tools.

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This image is from my first portrait session. The effect you are seeing is called Dior. The tutorial can be found here.

I wanted to give the image a Hollywood feel, so I added a bit of shine to the portrait. Kavy is very beautiful anyway and didn't really need any of this doing. Its just nice to add a little twist to the image.

It took about 2 hours in all to update the image.

But I don't just manipulate Portraits, I also enjoy tweeking another subjects, this was taken in an alley at the back of my brothers house.

Kenny is a song writer/ producer (and a very good one at that),we wanted to try and see if we could come up with something Dark and mysterious, your typical off the wall DJ / Dance n Trance theme.

Picture taken in llangollen, this church was just next to the river Dee. I thought it as (Parish Church of St Collen), but I'm not so sure.

The original image was a disaster, so I thought I'd apply a new technique I had just picked up from Digital Photo (magazine). Dodging and Burning they call it.

I think this is really an example of art.

This was also taken in llangollen, but it was around christmas and the station was being used to take Families off to see Santa. The kids had a great time and I really enjoyed creating this image.

I'll post some more of my editing work at a later date. But I hoped you like what I have done so far.

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