I recently learned some new portrait editing techniques and thought I would try them out on some old pictures since I'm sitting at home bored tonight. Bored? Did I really just say that?! To clarify, by bored I mean I really was just finding every possible way to distract myself from studying and doing homework. With the amount of studying I need to do, I don't think it's possible to EVER be bored. Well, at least not for the next year or so until I finish grad school. Yet, here I am procrastinating doing my studying by editing old photos! I'm going to post a few before and after photos so you can really see the difference between the unedited and edited pictures. Here we go!

First up is little Emmy Jane from way back in 2009. I snapped a few pictures of her while playing dress up when she was all dolled up with bright red lips!

Next up is my beautiful big sister from her undergraduate graduation day also in 2009.

Here we have Emmy again with her big sister Anna from 2011. Can you say cuties?!!?

This was a little boy that I met in Bulgaria while studying abroad in 2011. I went to visit the orphanage he lived at for the day, and we quickly became good pals. We spent the day together playing outside on the playground!

And last but not least, we have my little adorable cousin, Rylea! Isn't she the cutest thing you have ever seen? I took this picture while we walked around Williamsburg when I went to visit them in Virginia this past fall!

Isn't it amazing what a little editing can do? Sometimes it even amazes me, even though I do it all the time! These were all pictures that I would have never took a second glance at because I shot them quickly either with my phone or a little point and shoot camera. I would have never thought to edit these because I never would have thought they could look like professional pictures in the slightest. But, it's amazing what a little procrastinating and a little editing can do, isn't it?!