Photo midterm- Documentation 1

This honestly was a neat shot to begin with, but it was a pretty rough and pixelated  image. Here we see the use of a noise filter and reducing JPEG artifacts:

Original

Reduced Noise- increased Saturation

I then decided to try out gradients on this picture, maybe to emphasize the red flower. So I first put a transparent layer mask on the background. I did not use black and white but rather played around with a very light beige and a darker tan, to mimic how light might actually hit the ruins.

With a transparent gradient mask