Editing is JOY!

Playing with PSE for the past couple of days. It is pure joy to explore it, though it definitely makes me feel like those good old days when I dreaded to come near a computer and explore as a kid.

I am intimidated by the super fancy iMac and adding to it is the PSE. But no, I am giving it a hard time too. Haha.

I just brushed the books here and there and without exploring, going through the books makes no-sense.

Once I started exploring PSE, with a couple of tutorials here and there, I think I am getting a hang of it. I read in so many forums, once you use PS, you would never return back to picnic or picasa. How true, I already feel this even with the "just started" phase.

A couple of pictures that I edited in the order of original followed by edited.

And how I refrained from using my camera in low light situtation and how I cringed about popping up the ISO way beyond 200. Anything beyond ISO 200 was forbidden to me these many days dreading the noise level. But oh wow, with a click, I definitely fixed the grains in the following picture. 

I also was able to fix the tower that stands close to the moon on the unedited pictures which has always disturbed me every time I looked at it.

Editing is a sea on its own and definitely as vast as photography itself. Definitely it is a "learn as you grow and explore" field and has so much room for creativity.

Early Stocking Stuffers!

The Holiday season is here in a good swing.

The long and never ending "wish-list" for my camera bag was partly and nicely taken care during the Thanks Giving Holidays.

Got a bunch of accessories like lens cleaning kit, lens hoods, polarizing filters, remote control and the biggest of all Photoshop Elements for the camera bag. Loved the deal since most of them came on a definitely reduced price. And needless to say the best of the deal was PSE which came for half the price.

And the last but definitely not the least and definitely doesnt belong to the "stocking stuffer" category is iMac. How I love to edit my pictures in this. It shows a lot of details that I fail to notice with my laptop.

Now I have a handful of books and list of websites to go through, learn and practice PSE which definitely doesnt seem to be easy at all. Off to crank the PSE :)