Please, please photographers. I beg you. Stop trying to fix your bad images. Take them as a learning experience and hide them away never to be seen again. Do not edit them to be completely unrecognizable and pass them off as you having amazing photography skills. That is a lie. You are a retoucher at that point, a photographer no longer.
A very dear friend of mine (and insanely talented photographer) weighs in on her opinions about Photo Retouching. Very interesting points here. Well worth the read.
very dear friend...mine (and insanely talented photographer) weighs