As I get more and more into photography I find myself want to shoot the best possible photo I can.  I have come to realize that a lot of what makes a good photo is the editing that is done in post-production.  I have been using Adobe Lightroom 5 for a while now and I absolutely love it.  How ever Lightroom is limited in editing options.  Lightroom is great for organizing your photos and for simple editing and developing. However I needed something more powerful so I have started to use Adobe Photoshop CC.  This program is amazing!  But it does have a steep learning curve when it comes to its more advanced features.  I have been using Photoshop for fixing photos and taking out elements of the photo that I don't like.  Below are some examples of before and after photos.

This is an example of the remove tool in Lightroom.  It is very easy to remove any unwanted elements from the background.  You will also notice that the photo was rotated to make the horizon level.

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After

Removing the berry from this photo was a little more difficult.  I imported the photo into Photoshop and use the Healing tool with the content-aware feature turned on to achieve the end result.

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After

Photoshop is really good at removing the tiny details that you may not even notice are gone unless you look closely.  See if you can spot what was removed from the original.

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Even removal of the main focus of the image is possible in Photoshop.  This may seen like a difficult thing to do but honestly it only took me about 5 mins of editing.

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After

This is just the tip of the iceberg when it come to the power of Photoshop. It is amazing just how easy it is to do these things and I look forward to learning even more.   After learning how to do this I have a better understanding of what make a bad photo good and a good photo great.