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Terri Webster Schrandt

Sunday Stills: #Photo-Editing: Fun or Fraught?

OK, you’ve been out taking pictures with your phone or camera. Now what?

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Four photographers

Our experienced Navajo guide showed how to adjust phone camera filter settings for taking “warm” pics while inside the slot canyon. (I blurred two of the faces…).

This week, we’re exploring the various processes of photo editing. The last time I offered this theme for Sunday Stills was in 2018! Aside from the typical editing tools we use, there are more options in 2024. What are your favorite editing tools and please share some examples.

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2018’s theme challenge

“You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, and the people you have loved.” ~ Ansel Adams

I admit I love to edit my photos, but sometimes it’s fraught with necessity. Particularly now that my newer mobile phone takes huge images! I resize images more often using my phone’s photo editor to simply share one for social media or in a text. They take up a lot of space in my phone and, subsequently, my cloud storage.

Cloud puff temporarily hides the sun

How I Manage My Images

We all have various ways of managing our images, whether for capture, storage, editing, or platforms for sharing.

Editing

When I took the WordPress Blogging University course in 2014, then known as Photography 101, WordPress recommended PicMonkey, an editing program I still use. Back then PicMonkey was free. I currently have a Pro account which costs about $10/ month.

To edit, I use PicMonkey to resize the image to 800×800 for my WordPress media files. Any larger uses up our valuable media file space. PicMonkey also watermarks my images for publication using the “add graphics” function. My go-to basic photo edits are cropping, exposure, saturation, and image rotation or leveling. There are almost countless editing features in the Pro version and PicMonkey has a tutorial on most of them. I also use special effects, text, frames, and overlays.

I often use the “touch up” function to brighten eyes, whiten teeth, and smooth skin for adjusting faces in images. Now you know my secrets. 😉

Couple in Sedona, AZ
Looking fresh in Sedona

“Be kind to your photographer; the power of editing is in their hands.” – Unknown

These images of Long Lake Dam, are examples of typical edits. I cropped/resized, adjusted the exposure/contrast, straightened the horizon, desaturated, and sharpened the image. The desaturated image of Long Lake Dam is being turned into a 30×24 canvas print to place on one of our walls.

Long Lake Dam, Washington
Raw Image (resized)
Long Lake Dam, Washington
Long Lake Dam Desaturated

I also enjoy using filters to add interest to photos. No doubt you’ve seen the effects of Painnt, an app for mobile devices. I have a series of favorite filters. Once I create the filtered image, it is easily saved in a Dropbox folder. You can find Painnt free for Android and iPhone. My Google subscription for Painnt is $12/ year, which gives me unlimited use 😊

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Painnted Hydrangea

“A photographer’s eye is perpetually evaluating.” ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

I also have fun using and creating Bitmojis (digital avatars) for my blog signatures. Other bloggers use these and I find it fun to see how others characterize themselves as an avatar. These are also created with the Bitmoji mobile app. (Apple i-store & Google Play).

Does it look like me?

Cloud Storage

I also use Dropbox to store all my documents and photos. I save my images by date. My cellphone auto-connects to the camera uploads folder in the original size which, with my Samsung S23 Ultra, is a whopping 4000×3000 pixels. I have a premium plan which gives me 2 TB of storage. This also costs me $10/ month. I also have several free accounts for storage such as Amazon Photos (Prime at $12/month), Google Photos, and Microsoft One Drive. Probably more than I need.

I have an Amazon Echo which streams my photos uploaded to Amazon, plus sends me messages sharing images from “On This Day.”

storm clouds over pine trees
On this Day from Amazon Photos

One Drive has my photos beginning in 2006! As for Google, it has a feature that can tell you the location of the photo.

Do you really need all these? Probably not. I have them and use them for various functions. I spend a few minutes a day deleting duplicate images from these three cloud services since Dropbox is my go-to storage cloud. I also save most of my edited photos in designated folders in Dropbox.

If you are serious about photography (as a hobby in my case), I believe these costs are minimal. Add this to my WordPress Explorer plan with 2 domains and I pay $11 per month. Not bad for a serious leisure hobby. With this plan, I get 13GB of storage. If you’re totaling, I’m spending about $43 per month for these services.

Pro Editing Tips from Fellow Bloggers

“Gosh, my job is so easy! I just click a button all day!” … Said no photographer, ever.

I want to admit right here and now, that I am no expert when it comes to photo editing, or photography for that matter. I know what I like and I seem to have a good eye for composition. But over the years, I’ve taken cues and advice from fellow bloggers and photographers from whom I’ve seen their best practices at work.

John from Journeys with JohnBo (and a co-host of Lens-Artists challenges) shares his how-tos in his popular CellPic Sunday feature where he shares his expertise with using cell phone photography and other photo-editing programs like Luminar Neo (which uses AI tools).

Hugh from Hugh’s Views and News shares a variety of blogging tips. His post “5 Things You Can Do To Free Up Media Space…” provides tips about resizing your images before you upload them to the media library. A must if you are saving media space for the long haul.

Tina Schell, fab photographer of Travels and Trifles who also co-hosts Lens-Artists challenges uses Topaz Labs to enhance some of her images.

Other photo-bloggers use Canva or Adobe Creative Cloud which includes Lightroom, Bridge, or Photoshop. With both Canva and Adobe, you have powerful AI tools at your fingertips. Canva and PicMonkey are also excellent for creating graphics.

Editing with AI (Artificial Intelligence)

“Today, the term “AI” describes a wide range of technologies that power many of the services and goods we use every day – from apps that recommend TV shows to chatbots that provide customer support in real time.” Source

Whether you or I are fans of this technology is immaterial. It’s here, so let’s take advantage of some of its technology. As bloggers, we already see how AI tech is integrated into our blogs should we choose to use it. Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that is used to create content based on a text prompt. It is already being used by WordPress.

In terms of image editing, AI has some interesting features, especially in the generation of creating images from text. In the example below, I went to Pexels in WordPress’ image block’s drop-down menu and typed “photo editing.” The image is an example of Generative AI at work. WordPress guarantees these images are copyright-free.

Photo by PhotoMIX Company on Pexels.com

Have you tried AI-generated images? As a sci-fi and fantasy buff, I enjoy reading about mythical creatures. Diana at Myths of the Mirror writes wonderful fantasy novels and often uses illustrations in her books and covers. Recently she posted how to use Bing Images “create” using AI generation for her fantasy creatures. Truly inspired by this idea, I hopped on the website and had a go!

My current obsession with bald eagles led me to try this AI image generator through Copilot Designer, initially accessed here: https://www.bing.com/images/create/ If you are interested you can create your own account. Images are free to create.

Digital Eagle flying over lake
AI-generated Bald Eagle

I could never achieve this view in real life. The images generated are free to use with no copyright infringement issues.

Another fantasy author I follow is Rebecca Chastain, who lives in the Greater Sacramento area. After reading her debut series of books Gargoyle Guardian Chronicles, I became obsessed with her descriptions of gargoyles. Historically, gargoyles are depicted as grotesque, stone animal hulks that stand guard on Gothic architecture to deter unwanted visitors. Chastain’s are magical creatures that fly and boost magic.

Continuing to be inspired by Diana’s AI mythical creatures, I used Generative AI to create a gryphon, an eagle/lion hybrid.

Flying Gryphon
AI-generated Gryphon

How often might I use this feature? Not sure yet. But it’s fun!

I am in no way suggesting we use Generative AI to replace our photography.

For more reading on AI tools used in photo editing, consider 16 Incredible AI Photo Tools to Try in 2024 (Free and Paid).

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” ~ Ansel Adams

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Sunday Stills Photo Challenge Reminders

The Sunday Stills weekly-themed photo challenge is easy to join. You have all week to share and link your post. If you choose to link to Sunday Stills, please also leave a comment on my post.

  • Remember to title your blog post a little differently than mine.
  • Please create a new post for the theme or link a recent one.
  • Entries for this theme can be posted all week.
  • Tag your post “Sunday Stills.”
  • Don’t forget to create a pingback to this post so that other participants can read your post.
  • I also recommend adding your post’s URL to the comments.

This Week’s Featured Bloggers

Sunday Stills is a wonderful community of bloggers, poets, artists, and photographers who desire to connect with one another. Below are this week’s links from bloggers who shared their photos of how they edited their images. I add these all week as new links are posted.

Themes for March are ready to view on my Sunday Stills Photo Challenge Page. This page is updated monthly. Join me next week as we explore… Rainy Days.

For the Sunday Stills photo challenge this week, show us the before and after images of your photo-editing favorites, and please share what editing programs and tools are your favorites.

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  11. Wonderfully interesting post Terri. I love editing my photos. My S22 phone camera has great software and I resize my photos using this. The phone also has a remaster tool, this sometimes works other times I just like my original shot. My iMac has some good editing software too. I haven’t used AI generated tools yet, will have to look into that. I’m off now to see what I can come up with.

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    • Hi Ali, thank you for sharing your editing tools. Phone cameras have come such a long way over the years. I enjoy my S23U, so much to learn! Generative AI is a fun tool. I just created one as a cover image for my Sunday Stills rainy day theme in 2 days. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!

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  14. Plenty of great information in this post, Terri. I don’t edit my photos very much apart from cropping them and adding a watermark to them. For watermarking, I use an app called Photobulk. I use the free version.

    I take all my photos on an iPhone. I’m amazed of the quality of many of the photos, but I seldom use any of the photo editing tools on the phone. However, I do use the Apple iCloud which gives me a huge 50GB amount of storage. For that I pay £21.99 per month and they have never increased the cost since I started using it way back in 2013. Not only does it store all my photos, but also all my music.

    I’m very interested in AI, but have never used it to create images yet. The ones you have shared are amazing, but I don’t think they can ever replace photos. I’ll have to have a look more into AI images. WordPress used to have a AI image experimental block but it seems to have gone now.

    Thank you also for linking to my post about how to save storage space in our blogging media libraries.

    I’ll leave you with a link to this Wordless Wednesday post which shows a photo I edited to make myself a much better sketcher (my art teacher in my final year at school said on my school report that I draw like a 3-year-old child).

    Are You Good At Drawing? #WordlessWednesday #Photography

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    • Thanks for sharing your go-to editing tools, Hugh. Iphones have long been a high standard for phone cameras. Once I began to rely on my samsung android phones for much of my photography, I found I needed better editing tools during post processing.
      Love that photo you shared. And to think we can use filters to make us draw like a child!

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  16. Lots of great info to take from your post this week, Terri. I learned along time ago when you want to be smarter, stand next to the smartest kid in the room. lol. As photographers, we can never know it all, and it is nice to see what others are doing to make their work better. Great info!

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  17. Wow, I loved all the photos in this post especially the AI generated ones, Terri. I use Photoshop to do editing – resize images, enhance brightness and contrast, replace backgrounds,remove unwanted oblects or people, open the shut eyes, etc. I use my phone features to blur the backgrounds, remove people in the background. I like yout tools in PicMonkey to touch up on faces ans whiten teeth. I don’t play with photos enough right now to subscribe PicMonkey, though. I posted photos on my blog more often years ago but didn’t have good tools. Good to know now the tools are available.

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  19. Lots of great info here, Terri. I go back and forth with editing. It’s so easy to go way overboard, but a little straightening and cropping usually can help most photos. Leaning horizons make me nuts. I would love to really learn Lightroom but I’m afraid I don’t have the time and patience needed.

    Thanks for the link to Bitmoji. I’ve been seeing those avatars on various blogs and was interested in finding out more… now I know!

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  20. Terri, did you write this post with this Wednesday’s WQ in mind. You hit everything I wrote about – almost, LOL This is a fun post. I think, in your spare time, you and John should do some videos that WALK us through HOW you use these services. I have Cee to thank for that. I was such a dummy when it came to editing until about a year and a half ago- even though I used Photoshop Elements and Canva. One of the things she told me was to “wear my glasses.” Gosh, where have I heard that before! LOL. One of my main problems is straightening my photos because I have an astigmatism even with LASIK. That tool on the Adobe products is a game changer for me. Another one I have to use on some of my older pictures is the heal tool. I have a lot of dirty lens spots. My Dad drove into my head, “Don’t touch the lens,” and I listened to him until I met Cee. I never even saw the spots on my pictures. I know, again with the glasses. Anyway, great post. Mine is coming tomorrow. 🙂

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    • Lol, Marsha, I didn’t know that was the WQ theme. I’ve actually learned some things myself from other bloggers who shared their tips and tricks. I get prompted to clean my phone camera lens a lot and because I wear glasses, I always have a soft cloth available.
      My pet peeve is seeing slanted horizons. It’s not artsy in a landscape…it’s annoying.🙄 A pro photographer told me this years ago. He photographed windsurfing and said waterscapes must be level. Glad you pay attention to that detail.
      Looking forward to your post! Great minds and all 🤣

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  23. I loved this post Terri! I love to edit photos. I can sit all day and edit! I use pic monkey to resize. I have many editing apps on my phone and I use all of them. Snapseed is my favorite along with Google photos. Google photos has the best eraser! I sometimes over edit which I end up redoing but some Instagram photographers over edit and it looks really cool. For me, it ends up being what is pleasing to my eyes.
    Now because of you I now have Bitmoji on my phone! lol
    I will add an art image I just did with my phone, to my upcoming Tuesday Tidbits post. Stay tuned!
    I have not used AI … yet!! I will have to try!
    Enjoy your week my friend and thanks for the fun post!

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    • Hi Nancy, thank you for sharing your photo-editing tools and ideas! You are one of several who uses Snapseed–my turn to download it and check it out. I’m doing more on my phone these days. I can
      t wait to see your bitmoji! Glad to help inspire you as you did me 🙂

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  26. This was a fun theme for this week. I want to go through and read the comments to see what peoples thoughts were on editing and check out the other blogger tips you shared. I like that the guide showed you how to adjust settings. It drives me crazy when people won’t share what settings helped them. I would love to work on some night photos, but I know that takes patience.
    I have not played with the AI stuff, but maybe I will just to see how it works.

    https://troyerslovinglife.blogspot.com/2024/02/taking-in-life-around-mesundaystills_26.html

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  27. Terri, what an informative post. I use Picmonkey to enhance or resize my images, which I obtain from Pixabay, Pexels, etc. I also use Squoosh to condense the images so they don’r take up a lot of space in my blog. When I switched back to a classic theme from an FSE theme, all my images were too large and slow loading. For the past couple of weeks, I have resized most images in my blog using Squoosh. From my end, my blog seems to move much smoother because the images don’t take forever to load. (It’s been a very tedious chore but I feel it was worth it).

    I store my images in categories on my hard drive, and back them up with an external hard drive, just in case. Since most of my images are from other sources, if I don’t see a need to keep them, I delete them.

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  31. Hi Terri, you give lots of great advice and information here in your post and I can relate to much of it. Those AI images are very clever and I wouldn’t have a clue where to start on them! I also use Canva, Snapseed and PhotoShop for editing and went back and re-read my post on this topic from 2018 – a few things have changed in my thinking and use of editing tools but not a lot.

    I’ve posted here https://debs-world.com/2024/02/26/do-you-edit-photos-before-posting-sundaystills/

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    • Thanks, Debbie. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and editing tools of choice. The AI images are fun to create, but honestly, I don’t know what their practical application is for me just yet. I see many AI generated images on blogs for poetry challenges so far. It’s always fun to explore!

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  33. Thanks for sharing all the tools you use for your photos! How cool that you’re having the Long Lake Dam image made into a canvas print. I’ve often thought about doing that as well, but never followed through.

    Interesting to learn more about AI editing as well. Something to explore in future… Your images are striking! Amazon Photos sounds similar to Google Photos, which I use. They have the same “on this day” feature and also create occasional fun animations from my photos.

    Oh yes, resizing photos is important for a website. I find the desktop Windows 11 photos app does a great job and there are other editing features as well. I just noticed they have a new function that can blur, remove or change your background! The Paint app is good for that too.

    Love the quotes, especially the last two! Photo editing is an art form in itself. 🙂

    https://thedogladysden.com/fun-with-photo-edits-sundaystills-on-a-monday-photography/

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  35. Loved this one Terri! Your AI generated images are really fun. I especially liked that you didn’t try to create something that would be mistaken for a true image. Also thanks for the mention. I love topaz but the vast majority of my images are in Lightroom (storage and minor edits) and Photoshop (which as a long-time user I love but it is complex). I have some fun apps for iPhone images but my favorites get moved to Lightroom which has great cataloging and key wording. Probably way more than you cared to know but one more key item-storage. I back up every image on local hard drives and store my images there as well having learned the hard way not to eat up my computer storage with images! And I back them up online with Backblaze in case of disaster. Whew, sounds like a lot but not once you’re used to it I swear!! A very helpful post for many of your followers, nicely done!

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    • Thank you, Tina! It’s fascinating to read what you and others have shared. I tried LR but it got tricky for me with our packing and impending move in 2020 which really slowed me down for patience to learn new things.
      I have an external hard drive somewhere, and should dust it off and use it. And you reminded me I have backblaze too. OmG. It’s all worth it at some point. My problem is I need to go through my camera uploads and delete the bad ones and duplicates. Ugh. Media maintenance…is that a thing?? 😉

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  38. There is a lot of helpful info here Terri. I am going to tuck this post away for the future. I can’t do anything as to the phone, but I do like that Painnt feature and also how you do the various profile images of yourself and yes I like this one. I follow a photographer on Facebook named Jill Wellington. I used to use her photos for my posts the first few years I blogged and I always sent her the blog post so she could see how I used it … I did this as she always showed how people used her pics for ads, magazine covers, etc. She kept telling me to use whatever photos she created, but to use my own too because that is how sh started her blog way back when and also her IG account. She is a retired news reporter and mostly now a portrait photographer. She does some fun stuff with overlays and has been experimenting with AI and shows her followers how she creates different pics by using AI. It’s pretty amazing to me to see all these ways to alter your original image. I could stand to learn how to enhance my pics – I crop them and that’s about it. So, you won’t be seeing any images being altered in my post today that *I* personally did, just a post about what might appear to be an altered, or fake-em-out image.

    Deception is NOT my intention!

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    • Thank you, Linda! I have to say that once I got my better phone, it made editing easier on the phone–I like to share pics of our area with a local Facebook group I follow. Man are with my phone, but really good ones, like zoomed in birds are taken with my Lumix FZ300, then uploaded for me to make adjustments. I then download then back to my phone from a Dropbox file that contains edited images just for this group. It’s a bit of a monkey dance, but it doesn’t take long. Same with the filters which I discovered I can do a few on my phone 🙂

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      • I do have to learn how to enhance my photos. The problem is I end up spending hours going through photos that I took on several excursions, so by the time I’m done deleting the bad ones, wavering on the meh ones and picking the ones I will use in a post, I tell myself “you take too many photos!” Then I organize them to use in posts with the narrative I drafted the day I did the walk – otherwise I would not recall all the details. I also have all these photos I scanned in on two flash drives, one which is in the safety deposit box for safekeeping. You do make it sound effortless though after a few times of doing it.

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      • I’m not going to lie and say photo editing doesn’t take time. It definitely does. I spent an hour today looking for something to go with my Wordless Wednesday leap day post. Found something but had to re-edit the image from over 10 years ago. Sigh.

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      • Oh, wow – I was thinking once you got the hang of it, it would be easier.

        This week I was stymied what to use as the header image, so this is the first time I used the photo you say we can use for our Challenge post(s). I am sometimes torn whether to use the same image twice in the post if it will be part of the “story” later. And, also, I meant to mention this last night: Shelley (“Quaint Revival”) often uses Image Compare. Last night I read your post in Reader and Reader does the same thing to Image Compare to your two flowers, as it does to slideshows. It only works on the actual blog site. With Shelley’s posts, we are diverted from Reader to her site, so Image Compare works. So my Image Compare didn’t work in Reader.

        I also noticed I inserted two links in that post, one to a YouTube video and one to your site – we no longer have to pick “open in new tab” as it does it automatically (for now anyway). They keep changing it. 🙂

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  42. Terri, I use Microsoft Photo Editor on most photos to make a few basic edits, crop, straighten, white balance, contrast, shadows, etc. and to convert them from RAW to Jpeg. If I’m feeling creative I’ll open some of my favorite images in Lightroom and play with different features until I get what I want out of it. Lightroom costs $10 per month, but I think it is worth it. It is a great place to organize photos by subject – i.e. birds, beaches, sunsets, etc. I ‘store’ a lot of my images on Shutterfly since it is free when you order at least one product per year. Those are organized by date and folder name and recalled and downloaded for use at any time.

    The fantasy images you generated are beautiful and I can easily see either of them used as a book cover. Your Long Lake Dam image is beautiful. Sometimes ‘basic’ gets the job done best.

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  43. Terri,
    You’ve given us some very useful tips here. I enjoy editing as much as I do taking pictures. I have used Luminar for several years now but only scratched the surface with all that is possible. The first thing I am going to do when I sign out here is to check the amount of space I use in the WP Library. I may need to do some trimming. Thanks again, and have a great week. Joe

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  44. Hi, Terri – Thank you for all of these tips. They are incredibly helpful. I also now take all of my photos with my Smartphone (Samsung Ultra S24). A couple of years ago, I took a diginal photography course and the instructor recommended ‘snapseed’ which is a free photo editing app. It is my go-to editing app and I highly recommend it. I also have a paid subscription to Canva and use it frequently.

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  45. Where to start? Super impressed, Terri, with your ability to absorb and experiment with all of this. I think I did adopt Painnt at your suggestion and played with it for a while. I don’t have it on my current phone. I’m not a fast learner when it comes to technology and I can lose so much time trying. You obviously find it great fun and your photos are wonderful as a result of this. I know that AI is so much smarter than me. Maybe I’ll try the WordPress version when I run out of walks. Imagine the cakes I could generate! Now that’s definitely a thought.

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  47. I rarely edit photos (I am not interested enough in it I guess and I am not super techy) but the tip I need to go explore is the size one in Hugh’s blog. I am currently sitting at 74% in my files on WP and need to figure out how to go forward. Interesting AI creations but again something I suspect I won’t play around with. I do love the image of the canyon again!

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    • Thanks, Bernie! I wasn’t all the techie with editing but it became easier. One thing you can do about your media space is to delete old posts along with their images. I had some huge images from posts in the earlier years. No one was reading them so I deleted them. A big help. Going forward, keep your images at no more than 800×800- ish.

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  49. Thanks so much for sharing all these great tips and resources, Terri. I’ve been using the background remover for years! Some of this I can do on MAC which really helps with photos. Now that WP gives us access to Pexels images, I admit I don’t go in and edit the sizes. With the FSE themes, things are a bit different. I’ll look at that aspect of the photo sizes. You have a wonderful talent with your photography. I look forward to your photos every week.

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  50. So much fun in this post to unpack and try! That’s so cool that you’re making a large print of the dam. It’s a stunning photo. I’m lucky to have just enough time each week to pull together a post, let alone play around with editing. Photo editing for me has to be free and right there at my finger tips or it doesn’t happen. Having said that, I do go back to your comments you share and recommendations to refresh my memory of what cool things you’ve found to be beneficial and have added them to a someday maybe list. AI is soaring like an eagle for those who love to dabble in it. Your trial images you shared are enchanting. Well, done! Thank you for sharing all the words of wisdom and the great examples of what can be when you play with editing for fun!

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  51. I guess I’m boring! Meaning that I look for good photo opportunities, compose and take the picture. Back at the computer, I do minimal editing. I use some Photoshop filters, NIK software and Topaz. I’m not really a fan of AI but realize that some of the filters in PS use AI. And, oh my, I don’t use my cell phone for photography. It’s just not as good as the newer models. I do admire your talent and patience for working on a small surface like a cell phone.

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  53. What a fun post, Terri. I’m so glad you gave AI a try. I also edit my photos, though I don’t do anything a technical as you do. The only thing I pay for is the cloud storage to hold them all. My camera (phone) also takes HUGE photos and I have to reduce them all manually to a usable size. I tried to change the setting on my camera/phone, but apparently that isn’t a feature. *Sigh*.

    And don’t you love it when a photo is so wonderful that it needs no editing?! A great bunch of images.

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    • Thank you, Diana! As I researched more about Generative AI, I found that AI is used practically everywhere. I guess it’s here to stay. Resizing cell phone photos is super important I believe. Thanks for the added inspiration and the timeliness of it 🙂

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  54. I know you like having fun with your photos and these look great. That dam photo will look good on your wall. I’m pretty basic when it comes to photo editing, similar to the typical edits you mentioned. I do everything in an old version of Photoshop Elements and have all my files on my computer and various backups. Nothing in the cloud! I don’t have anything particular against the various options you mentioned and wouldn’t rule out using them at some point. It’s just not where my interest lies currently. That said, here’s my response for this one: https://grahamsisland.com/2024/02/25/ko-pizza/

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  55. Terri, what an interesting post! I love that before/after view of the blossom. I was unfamiliar with WordPress AI tools. Thanks for sharing that. I don’t know how much I will use the artistic creation, but it looks like it might be fun to play with.

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  56. Those AI generated images are amazing, Terri. I’ve used them for book reviews as a background for the book cover but I think I need to explore more editing tools instead of sticking to the same one. Photoshop is beyond me but there must be easier ones . I’ll check out Luminar Neo…

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