
This however, wasn't one of those terrific shots to begin with. Oh, it was a good picture, but I saw that it had much more potential.
At the same time I'm learning to use my camera, I'm also increasing my Photoshop skills. This is a great program, and I've been using it for more than 7 years now. Even with all those years, there is still so much more to do with it. It seems to me sometimes that I've barely even scratched the surface!
So I took this pretty good photo into Photoshop. I did some cropping, color adjusting, some layer masks, blurring, erasing and much more! About 1 hour later I came up with the finished product. I can hear you asking, "Why spend so much time on one picture?" Well, look at the finished results and I hope you'll agree that it was time well spent!

Here's the before and after together. What a difference huh!

Size 8" X 10"