Photoshop Elements

So I have Photoshop, and Photoshop Elements, and have been wanting to play around with them for quite some time, but they are quite intimidating (kinda like my fancy camera that I had to have). Well, I was super bored tonight and decided to give it a whirl. One of my favorite bloggers has done several tutorials on photography, and a couple have included editing photos in Elements. So, I pulled up her blog, and just went at it. :o) It turned out to be quite easy, once I figured out how to do a couple things (the version she has of Photoshop Elements is a tad bit different than mine), and really wasn't so scary after all. ;o)

I took a few pictures of old farm buildings while we were in Nebraska back in August for this exact purpose. So, here's how it turned out. :o)

"Antiqued" Photographs. :o)


This is the original image, straight out of my camera.


Here's my first attempt. Not too bad... looks a little "sun faded" huh? :o)


And here's the second attempt. :o) I think I like this one a bit better. It's not so washed out. I used a different textured layer for this one than I did on the first one.

Anyways, it was fun doing these, and definitely not as hard as I thought it would be, so maybe you'll be seeing more edited photography from me in the future. ;o)