Before and After Photoshop image editing.

 The first image is my original.  It was a photo my wife took a couple of weekends ago at a race I ran of my daughter and I.  I loved the image and thought it would be perfect to edit.  The first thing I did for my filter image was to crop and rotate the picture.  The original was crooked, so I went in and fixed that.   I then proceeded to play with the auto color feature.  I didn't like how that worked out so I tinkered with the brightness and contrast till I was happy.  Next I added a cooling filter which I particularly, like. To finish I added an anti-shake smart filter.  I don't think it did much but I wanted to play around with it. 

For my Polaroid montage I used my edited image.  I created layers made one black and one white.  selected a portion of my original image, then created a clipping mask.  I then created another for my white background.  I then grouped the layers and proceeded to make a whole bunch of copies of the group.  Once I had the copies I repositioned each group using the free transform tool to get the image I have.  Lastly I saved using the png file type so that I could have a manageable file size.  My biggest obstacle was the intensive amount of time it took to learn and feel comfortable enough to start playing around, hours and hours.  This was much more difficult for me than the Dreamweaver projects.  However, I feel good about what I created and the more I tinker with Photoshop the more comfortable I will become.

Photoshop, as opposed to Dreamweaver, is a more universal tool.  Images are so pervasive I can see myself using these skills almost daily, as both an educator and as a person.  My wife is particularly excited that I at least have a rudimentary understanding so I can make the family Christmas Card (joy of joys...).