Photo Editing: Major Make-Overs

Some photos require a major make-over.   Telephone wires, garbage cans, errant people.  Sometimes there is just no way to get the shot you want.  There were numerous things I wanted to change in the first photo below.  The parked cars, the pedestrian, the sign propped against the gate …  And I would have liked the gates to be closed.   But this was the best shot I got that day.  It is of the gates at the Circulo Militar in Plaza San Martin in Buenos Aires.    In these situations, I resort to plain, old Paint, the standard free Microsoft program.  My husband taught me how to use it and now no project is too big.   🙂

Below, after editing in Paint

I then tweaked it in Sagelight