Edit trials

I haven't taken any photos today as of yet. 
But I will.
I have been spending time on a new editing tool that I stumbled upon.
It is interesting, though I don't know if it is good enough for professionally printed images.
It may just be my post on the internet editor. 
Hmmm we shall see, I suppose I need to order some prints before I judge it totally! 

So, my time investment for photography today has been in the editing area, it is pretty important too!!

Here is what I was messing around with.
I am having serious facebook profile picture indecision.  I don't want my image to be the same as the one I use here, and I haven't had much luck doing self portraiture as of late!  Ugghhh! 

I took this image and threw it into the editor today to see if I could push it just a bit, without over doing it.
 






























Mainly doing some adjusting to rid myself of imperfections in my skin clarity!  ( I am 41 already, when does this all end??) hee hee 
I think I am pretty happy with the result...what are your thoughts on that???
I truly, truly want to keep my pictures looking as real and natural as possible while enhancing in smidgens to benefit the viewer.  I mean, come on...I have eye crinkles I sure don't want to smooth over those, it is where I am in my life.  (besides the fact that I did do that in this program last night just for kicks and found myself seeing my past life...back when I was 20 ha haha ha heeehahahahaha!!!  It was a little much.)  OH wait, I should show you that too.  Hold on I will be right back!!

Yeah, that is a little too heavy handed on the old edit stick for me!! 
Well this is all fun to play with, and neat to learn.
Have a great weekend!!