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These are some of my most recent edits.
Everything around here is starting to bloom
and while it is beautiful
my allergies are going
CRAZY!

Snow! What Snow?!

Good news:

I got an extra day off from work yesterday because of the possibility of snow!

Bad news:

I live in the ONLY place in the country that did not get snow! {or so it seems}

We only got lots and lots of ice.

The trees were really pretty, though, covered in ice!

I have not had a chance yet to really explore my new editing program.
But I did play around with it some last night.

Here are a couple of before and after shots.

Basically, my method was just to play around with the stuff on the sidebars until the pic looked good to me.

I really need to start reading my new books!

Any and all criticisms are welcome!
 

Calvin & Hobbes...just because!!

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editing

I have finally purchased a real photo editing program.

Adobe Lightroom 3

Up until now I have just been using free editing programs, mainly Google's Picasa.

I could not justify spending a fortune for an editing program,

but I was able to get a student discount for Lightroom.

So, I took the plunge.

Unfortunately, I have absolutely no clue how to operate the program.

One of my photographer friends uses Lightroom and she says it is pretty easy to figure out.

Being a perpetual student, I believe you can learn anything from books.

So, along with my brand new editing program I purchased these two books.

Interesting reading, huh?!

I will be sure to share some before/after pics when I figure it out!!

Do any of you use Lightroom?

If so, do you have any good tips for a beginner?

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