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The first pic is unedited, and here's the version I played with a bit, what do you think, is it too much?

Cacti-Edited-1.jpg

Here's a few more, should be clear by looking at them, but unedited version first, edited one after:

1:

Cacti-Unedited-2.jpg Cacti-Edited-2.jpg

2:

Cacti-Unedited-3.jpg Cacti-Edited-3.jpg

3:

Cacti-Unedited-4.jpg Cacti-Edited-4.jpg

I think I might have gone overboard with the Aztekiums (first pic), but other ones look kinda nice to me. Still a lot to learn though, one day I might be able to show how pretty these are in real life!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yup, there's some color correction, de-hazing and slight sharpening going on, but that's about it. I didn't want to do too much, so they don't look artificial or AI- made, so this is just the first try. I might read up on plant photography a bit more to understand what to adjust instead of blindly stumbling around photo editing software like I'm doing now :)