It’s ok to edit your photos. Do whatever the fuck you want to them. There are no rules. Edit to your skill level, and aim high! If it’s your original artwork, you have tons of options to play with photography….
Ask why you would or wouldn’t edit, then go from there. If it’s because you don’t think you can, then I promise you can learn! Past experiences working in photography and graphic design have taught me the benefits of easy key edits, knowledge and creative freedoms.
Suggestions:
Use your phone. Steady your hand and frame the work in direct (and in-direct sunlight if possible) - take a couple pics of each. Decide which is the clearest and edit it authentically, then crazy edit another just for fun. Duplicate the image if you want more play options.
Key edits: most important is Cropping (rotation and balance if you took the photo crooked), Brightness +20 always, a touch of Contrast, alteration of Colour/Tone, adjust Saturation, White/Black Point, and maybe play with Effects!
You learn from editing … Ideas for what you like and had no idea of, what’s possible and where you might want to go!
Be up front when you are posting the image for sale. Post an accurate photo if you are selling the original + any edit you want if it’s not for sale (NFS) or if you are selling a print of the edited image.
Left - Scanned watercolour Right - White Point ‘washed out’ edit
Since the original was a gift, I can share whichever I prefer on social media/digitally.
