Image A is the original image. I felt as though it had nice lighting, but that it was a little bit too dark. Due to this, I first decided to bring up the exposure of the photo ever so slightly. I then I decided to lighten the photo a little more by using the brightness and contrast tool. I lightened the photo up by 5 points, and added a contrast of 2. I like the contrast between the darker background and the lighter focus on my daughter and the cat more in the second photo. I feel like lighting up the photo really added some contrast between the two and made the main focal point pop out more. I made some other changes as well. For example, if you look in the first photo you can see a small piece of paper to the right of the child. I felt as though it took away from the photo, so I used the clone stamp tool to remove the piece of paper. If you can see right behind the child's head there is are two yellowish dots, I think it may be a door hinge. I found that to be distracting as well, so I used the clone stamp tool to remove it. I also very slightly blurred the background of image B.
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| Image A. The photo is a bit too dark and there are distractions present within the photo. |
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| Image B. The photo was lightened up, making the colors and focal point pop our more. Distractions were removed and background was slightly blurred. |
