Adobe Photoshop... Ooooo... Take II

The blogger is still having some trouble loading these images, probably because they are jpg, but not quite the same as the blogger is used to. I hope you like them.


Here I wanted to bring out the water in the leaf. In the original, you had to look closely to find them.
Here I increased the contrast and lightened the petals in the black-eyed-susans, giving them this frosted look. I like it, though it looks more like a painting than a photograph.
In the original, the entire image was light ans airy. I wanted to darken the background, and have the birdbath stand out more. I hope I succeeded.
This one only has a tiny bit of lightening on the been to bring her out more. Not major editing, just a little dodging.
This is the second version of this image I did. I wanted the tiny ant to be more of a focal point than in the original. I tried dodging with too much of a crisp edge to my tool, making it obvious what I had done. I found another brush that was speckled and left a more gradated edge to the area altered. It looks, to me, like just that place where the ant was got direct sunlight.