Before. Photo taken April 2, 2006 with Sony Cybershot, f/4.0, ISO 400, focal length 9.7mm, tungsten incandescent lighting After:Levels adjusted, seam in leg of character on the left removed, as well as the supporting metal bar, using rubber stamp and healing tools. This was taken with a very old camera that I bought in 2001. Later cameras that I bought automatically correct for lighting, and so less editing is necessary, but the rubber stamp and healing tools are still very useful. This was done on PC. I used a Mac only briefly in 1988 and hated it, but it was what my design partner at the time had. I've avoided all Mac and Apple products ever since. In the early 1990s I taught myself how to edit dBase programs on PC (using DOS, before Windows was released), and I would not have been able to do that on a Mac. Mac used to be better for video and sound editing, but PCs have caught up. Here are two pictures I "stitched" together to make a panaromaThese were old photos that I scanned a long time ago.

@Rosie, thanks. Our very own 3 y/o abstractist. Her mom is having it framed.

At the Lotus Festival, Echo Park, with fountain and downtown Los Angeles in the background. This festival features Pan-Pacific food and dragon boat races. I'm carrying an umbrella, which I used as a parasol for shade, but I closed it for the photo.

cindy, it's a deep angled shot of a neon sign (you can see a little of a blue and white one behind it). They are part of the Neon Boneyard in Las Vegas, but taken before the museum had organized them, years before the Neon Museum opened. Here are a few others