A visitor to my garden today,
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don’t see as many about here now … looks nice there he’d need a wet suit here great pic
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Bar none
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Thank you @realspeed. This sort of editing is what I used to do all the time, but I cancelled my PS subscription because I wasn’t really using my camera as much as I used to. So now I have to make do with unedited photos, well that is to say, not so professionally edited as I once could. When I get round to investing in a new iMac (this one is so old and so slow) I may subscribe again, because I do miss it!
I bought the Adobe Premier Elements and Adobe Elements outright on discs. started off with elements V 7 now have V 2020 . I hate paying a never ending subscription costs more in the long run
Have you tried the free open source program called GIMP? It is excellent.
There are plenty of instructional videos on YouTube on using it for very sophisticated editing
Yes I used to use Elements years ago and it was very good, I agree. The subscription I had was for PS, Lightroom and Bridge. At the time it was very reasonable at around £8 a month - no idea what it is now. You really can’t beat Lightroom for RAW conversion, IMHO, and for file organisation, which was why I loved it so much.
I have often seen GIMP recommended, but never tried it because I always had other software that I was satisfied with. I’m using a basic package for iMac at the mo, I can’t remember what it’s called. I might give GIMP a try, thanks for the reminder.
I find Gimp a bugger to use, perhaps I should try harder. But I do love Paint.Net, it’s good for jobs like removing the fence in front of the cat. I think there are apps now that do it at the touch of a button, I don’t know 
I do it manually: copy & paste bits of cat over the fence.
I do have Gimp installed and use it very occasionally for its Perspective Tool (Shift+P) which is excellent.
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I have GIMP and never used it. Depending on how intricate you want to get, there are many free (or cheap) online photo editing sites. 
Yes there are PK, I agree. I’ve got a pretty good, but basic, free one, and as I don’t do anything like the amount of photography that I used to, it’s more than adequate.
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For most of my editing I use Picasa the program Google bought then abandoned. It does simple editing, like cropping, contrast, adding text and colour adjustment. It is also an excellent photo management tool
I have no idea why Google abandoned it but you can still get a copy of the lastest version from here:
I use lunapic , another free one.
@ Donkeyman,. Oh sod it, anuvver bugger up !!
Picasa is good. I think google must have saw no mileage in it. Although it still works all these years since they abandoned it.
https://photos.google.com is where it’s at. Phone snappers can edit and organise in the clouds. But it’s also good for the more serious togger who wants to edit/process on their machine then upload to a nice place for organising, sharing, backing up, plus any further tweaks in the clouds.
Berries today.
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Looking for some different subjects, I looked up with a tilt.
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Went back to the Royal Albert Hall yesterday with a different camera. I’m fascinated by those seemingly eccentric circles in the roof structure, also that high level walkway.
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