This week we studied making selective adjustments to images using various selection and adjustment tools.

The flower is very bright and doesn't need adjustments, but I wanted to try to bring out more of the color in the background leaves.	I selected the flower with SmartEdge and saved the selection to disk. Inverted the selection. Applied Adjustment layers to the image.
No, I don't have a cow fetish. ;) We saw these cows a few weeks ago when we went to Lake Berryessa. I liked this shot, but the background was beyond repair.	I tried doing various adjustment layers, but I just couldn't fix it. So I selected the cows with the smart edge tool, inverted the selection, duplicated the layer and used the burn tool at a very low opacity to make the trees darker. Then I added a HSL layer and dropped the saturation by about -75 to make the background black and white. I like it better than the original, but I have a peculiar eye. ;)
I took this image on 9/11/02. I was taking a lot of photos of people and various sites that I saw that day in our neighborhood. The flag was beautiful, but unfortunately the telephone/power lines were not.	I could have removed the lines using various tools, but that wasn't a part of this lesson. ;) Instead I selected the flag, inverted the selection and applied a 63.37 Gaussian Blur to the backround. The flag has the appearance of floating.

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