Cleaning up scratches, bent corners, creases, dirt.

Adding or Subtracting objects or merging two images seamlessly

These two cardinals sat in the same part of the tree at different times during the same day, so merging them was an interesting idea.

Distracting elements were removed, image cropped and color and contrast pumped up to give the photo more interest.

A combination of techniques used to isolate and enhance elements for combination as a collage for poster.

To isolate part of an image

Effects

The choices are nearly limitless - watercolor, duotone, ink drawing, textures, vignettes, hand painting and desaturating selected areas...and on and on.