Fooling around.

Ahhh, I should have been working. Haha! It's no fun editing photos for a newspaper, though.

Done in Photoshop, took about a half hour. Critiques and comments are welcome!

The photo was taken by me, the background was edited separately from the horse. I am debating whether or not to take the fence posts out of the background.

That is good but just for comparation value I would like to see a before and after photos.

Of course! I debated whether or not to put up the original photo, because I personally like looking at the differences. Good to hear somebody else does, too! Should the fence posts in the background be removed?

If your interested in how I did it, I duplicated layers, blurred, smudged, changed levels, contrast and color as well as curves. Then I changed the saturation a bit. The background had to be edited separately because I wanted it darker and the horse lighter. I also added a few more tail hairs and made his mane seem a bit longer.

I love playing with Photoshop! Its SO much fun, but some stuff takes hours to make.!! Very nice picture!

Thank you and my main reason was to see how good your horse looked before it was touched up, and he looks great.

I personally like the fence posts....idk why but I do!!!