https://www.thesquirrelchase.com/2022/10/31/one-to-three-photo-processing-challenge-november-2022/

The purpose of the One-to-Three Photo Processing Challenge is to play. These days we have so many different ways to process a photo: from phone apps to Photoshop. And these different software options make it accessible for anyone to get fun and beautiful effects. Whether you have a lot of time or a little.

Kate-The Squirrel Chase

I thought that this looked like a fun challenge to join in because I do love playing with photo editing. I recently bought Adobe Photoshop Elements so I decided to use it to process some old photos and see what I could do with them.

Here is my original photo. It’s an old one, probably taken with my Pentax MG SLR back in 1988, our Bicentennial year. I scanned it onto the computer many years ago.

Photo number one I just used the “restore old photo” feature to brighten it up a bit.

For the second one I straightened it a bit and used one of the artistic effects which I think makes it look like an illustration in an old book. The effect is called “Bold Palette”.

The last one, because if you are photographing old trains you have to have at least one black & white or sepia, I used an effect called “split tone”. I also cropped it square and used object removal to blot out all the bystanders except for the man in front. I couldn’t get rid of him without messing up the lettering on the headboard. I straightened the photo a bit too because a bad habit of mine seems to be not holding the camera straight.