What do you do with all those ugly, blah pictures?

[GOPFighter]

I'm sitting here in a snowstorm sorting through the blah and ugly pictures I've accumulated over the years, thinking should I finally delete them or what?

I decided to play with them and see if there's anything I can do to salvage them. After awhile it started to get fun.

Here's an example of an uninspired pic:



I cropped it, inverted it and played with the gamma, saturation, contrast, and a number of other esoteric settings, and here's what I got:



Too bad PhotoBucket resizes images. It may not be a work of art, but it sure beats the original!!

(I created this using ThumbsPlus)

As someone who is a true expert at taking blah pictures, there may be hope yet!

[Blue_In_AK]

1. I enjoy doing that, too

I have PaintShop Pro, brand X, I guess, but it does the trick. Here's a couple of Alcatraz.

Original, dark dreary San Francisco day




I don't remember exactly what I did here, but I kind of liked the effect

[Richard Steele]

7. Self-Deleted; photo sizing problems

[RagingInMiami]

2. Is that in paris? It looks very familiar.

That building behind the metro looks like a restaurant I once tried, where I learned the valuable lesson of never eating in a restaurant by a metro stop in paris.

[GOPFighter]

4. LOL!

No, this is the Cite metro station on the Ile de la Cite. The building in back is a flower market. Unfortunately, last week the temps were well below freezing so there weren't many flowers being sold.

On this trip I learned the hard way to keep my hands on my wallet in metro stations! <chuckle>

[amazona]

3. Hey, the Cite stop -- is that the Bird/Flower Market?

I have some un-inspired photographs from that area also but I blame the rain. It sounded sooo beautiful though coming up out of the Metro to the sound of all the canaries in the rain on Sunday morning. Too bad you can't photograph canary song.


I think this is Cite, not sure, but I tried to catch the Art Nouveau or whatever it is signage against the stormy sky. Not entirely happy with it though:

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72

[GOPFighter]

5. Yup! That's the Cite station

Nice picture (considering the rain)! I've never visited the market on a Sunday. I wonder what they do in the winter?

[amazona]

6. it was winter

There were a lot of plastic windbreaks, and they just brought out the species that are more cold tolerant. A lot of canaries and the like. Even a few "furry" chickens. The more tropical stuff, you had to walk over the Pont Neuf (spelling?) bridge and along that street there were many pet stores open on Sunday, offering not just many kinds of birds but dogs, cats, etc. Some plant stores were open too. The other stores such as the big department store were not open.

With my picture, I'm frustrated because I wanted to remove some of the "crap" and just have the sign and sky. I guess I need to learn PhotoShop. I don't like those bits of tree limb and whatever along the bottom of the picture.

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72