Week Nine - Photoshop Fun!!

And when I say "fun", I mean that in the future sense.  I have yet to see the fun in this.  I use a version of adobe on my old PC in my office at home for my pictures.  It is much more user friendly and easy to understand.  I have certainly come to realize that photo shop is hard.  I think that it will in the end be fun and I know that with three kids and an enormous amount of digital pictures, I can and will learn and use it.  For this assignment, once realizing my photo shop inadequacy, I stuck with some of the more remedial items for editing my picture.  As you can probably see right away I cropped it to a more close up version of the kids.  The next thing that I did was try to put a border around it, and as you can see, did not figure it out.  So instead I played around with the colors.  I changed the shadows, mid tone, and the highlights.  I really enjoyed playing with these different tones and I cant wait to have free time to do this with some of my other pictures that are great but just not right with the lighting or shadowing. 

I would have to say that my biggest obstacle is that I have not been paying enough attention to the tutorials.  Since using an adobe program previously I am afraid to say that I thought it would be more self explanatory than it is and now I know that I need to do a google search for  "photo shop for dummies".  I need to redo some of them and add some that I thought that I might not need.  Time is a factor in my life right now and hours of tutorials are hard to fit in without getting really sleepy in the late night hours that I find to fit them in.  It might be easier for me to read something instead. 

The biggest thing I learned was my inadequacy of this program, but I did get my feet wet and that is important.  I am willing to work on this and do better in the future. 

The future for me and photo shop is unlimited!  Like I said before I have an enormous library of digital photos and with three kids there are plenty that have one or maybe two kids looking great and the third with a monkey face.  So I cant wait to learn this program and really get to work with it for my future photo albums. 

I am sure that there are possibilities for use in the education arena as well for my future teaching career as well.