Filters

I'm not particularly happy with my choice of filters, but my computer (or maybe GIMP) is beingridiculously slow loading each filter, so I could only experiment so much without wanting to pull all my hair out....

The first one, I used the newspaper filter; the second, cartoon filter.

Dodge & Burn

Original & Edited - a subtle difference, but still noticeable. "Burning" the background makes the cute chicken puppet(?) stand out more.

Yaya & Alice

Okay, I did lots of GIMP experimenting this week. I cropped both of these photos, and in the first I just increased the contrast and left it like that. With the second, I played around with a few different settings: I posterized it, therefore reducing it to a limited set of colors; I increased the "curve"; I decreased the brightness a bit; and I changed the color balance, adding some more blue. I wouldn't normally play around with a photo so much, but it was fun to experiment.