I call it...Nobody's Home

All is quiet here....been playing around with my camera and photoshop elements...yeah me!! Not sure why..but I really like this shot.  What do you think?

Photoshop Elements Continued...The Healing Brush...WOW!!

Okay, so there is no surprises as to what I've been doing since last night. Well, other than having to get up out of my warm bed this morning and head to work, then drive home in the fresh fallen snow, I'm back at playing with my new Photoshop Elements software. I promise I won't post about this cool technology every night, but I just had to share my newest finding. 

Unless the 2.0 version called this something else, I don't ever remember repairing a photo as easy as I did today with a cool tool called The Healing Brush!  I'm pretty sure there was a tool that I've used to "try" to touch up a photo, but never this easy!!

Below is an old photo of me and my brother, that I've hated for the longest time because of the apparent tear in the photo. It's very obvious that it's worn and had been folded, and the white from the photo paper was showing through.

Well, with the click of a bandage, literally, and selection of a brush, all I had to do was slide that baby down the crak and WHALA!!!.......

It's not perfect, but now it just looks like his t-shirt underneath is all bunched up..you know boys are always slobs!...hee hee hee.  Did you notice the edge of my dress?  The healer even copied the tweed..how cool is that??....then with the click of my auto enhance....

 

we're the bright and perfect pair!

And, by the way, I found a cool book at Amazon called Photoshop Elements 9: The Missing Manual, by Barbara Brundage.  I downloaded it into my Kindle software and it's walking me through this program like a charm.  

Unveiling in Elements 9.0

Learning is giving me a headache!....

There's nothing like having to learn something over again that you almost had mastered.  You know that feeling you get when you feel like a big dummy?  Your head starts throbbing from all the new?  Well, that's the feeling I have tonight as I sit here looking at my computer screen.  I just started working with Adobe Photoshop 9.0, and WOW... quite a few things have definitely changed including the location of things!  You see, I previously had a 2.0 version...yes...that was 7 versions ago, and would probably still be using it, if I could get into my computer that crashed this summer! 



New is good though, because there appears to be soooo many cool new features, but the problem I'm finding is there is no users manual readily available. When learning something like this, I need a hands on manual to look through, mark up and make notes. I guess I'm about to learn two new things - the newer version and how to study a different way.    

The first cool thing I did notice was that the auto enhance feature is a lot smarter than the 2.0 version.  With just two clicks of the mouse I went from this boring blurred photo:

to this bright and sharper version.........



Maybe I'll get the chance to entertain  with other great features as I learn how to do some new cool things with photos.  Next to my Nikon camera, Adobe is the next best thing when it comes to photography!  

What have you learned new lately?

Unveiling with new technology,