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I was looking through some photos from Hawaii and had a cool idea. De-saturate the photo, then use light room to "color" the photo as I thought it should be. This was taken at the Allerton Botanical Garden.

I made use of the adjustment brush, and just went along coloring in the lines. The only tricky part was the chair. It was less than 1px for the bars, which makes it tough when I am using a mouse to color. The rest of the photo has been extensively manipulated as well. I removed all sharpness, and clarity from the background, and lowered the exposure so the eye would focus on the structure. I lowered the contrast on the building to remove any harsh shadows, lowered the clarity a bit for glow, and bumped up the brightness and exposure.

Is it still a photo? I categorized it as digital manipulation.

Description
I was looking through some photos from Hawaii and had a cool idea. De-saturate the photo, then use light room to "color" the photo as I thought it should be. This was taken at the Allerton Botanical Garden.

I made use of the adjustment brush, and just went along coloring in the lines. The only tricky part was the chair. It was less than 1px for the bars, which makes it tough when I am using a mouse to color. The rest of the photo has been extensively manipulated as well. I removed all sharpness, and clarity from the background, and lowered the exposure so the eye would focus on the structure. I lowered the contrast on the building to remove any harsh shadows, lowered the clarity a bit for glow, and bumped up the brightness and exposure.

Is it still a photo? I categorized it as digital manipulation.