Since my day consisted of a my head slamming my desk while screwing around with Microsoft customer support and watching great football games that ended up as craptastic games, I decided to open up Paint.net and try to get better with my smartphone photography processing.

Probably wasn't a good idea considering I have a headache that's refusing to have mercy on me and really can't see straight. Oh well, whatever.

I grabbed an old shot I took that had been touched up previously. Then I touched it up again trying to create an HDR effect in the Paint.Net desktop application.

Before:

*all image credits Ant Pruitt for antpruitt.com*

After

I hope to get better at this stuff some day. I just need to spend more time with it all. Thank you to the smartphone photographers community that offers tips and tricks. Be sure to check out smartphone-photographers.com too for more resources.