First time photo edit

[Fudog]

Ok so the first pic is the unedited version. Ive nvr done anything other than basic cropping, contrast, sharpening, hue, and saturation editing. On this shot I cropped it then did a bunch of clone and smudging to remove and fix unwanted details lols. So how did i do??

Thx for looking

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[tott7000]

I think you did a good job. A lot more focus on the flowers now.

[Joey the girl]

great job! And if you didn't see the first pic, you'd never know it was photoshopped. Very nice.

[angkulturangewan]

yeah. more focus on the flowers. a little gaussian blur and erasing would have made the pic dramatic. but that was just a suggestion.

[Fudog]

Thx for the nice comments peeps. After reading the replys I did a lil more editing. I made a duplicate layer, cut out the flowers, did a G blur filter, then a color to alpha process on the cut out area, and a merge all visiable layers. I figured it would be the same as an erase. What do you guys think?? Im not sure it looks better this way.

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[barladeanca]

I like the previous version better. This one tires my eyes and the flowers seem a bit blurry.

Andreea

[Fudog]

yeah Me too I think with the back ground blurred it just makes my eyes work harder.

[foxor]

Yeah I definitely like your first attempt better too. Good job! I really, really like the crop. My only complaint is I can see where you've removed stuff in the top right corner...you can see texture/brush strokes that stand out. If you could blend that corner a bit better it would be harder to tell that you've done work on the photo.

[Fudog]

To be honest since posting that picture Ive seen several different things that needs fixing lol.
When I get some time I will fix the stuff I seen and will repost.