Mother's Day - edited for Good to WOW

As I said last week I am not really familiar with Photoshop Elements (PSE) but my PSE9 arrived today and if I wasn't feeling so lousy I would already have it installed.  However, after battling the flu and bronchitis a couple of weeks ago it seems I now have a sinus infection, allergies and the lingering cough from the bronchitis.  I just want to sleep at this point.  So PSE9 will have to wait for another day.

Today, however, I will show you what I did with my PSE7 and I used Ashley's very first tutorial in the Good to WOW series - Basic editing techniques to get my feet wet.  I did not realize I could open Adobe Camera Raw in PSE so that was a major lesson for me and then I applied most of her tips and here is my before and after.

Here is the SOOC from Monday:




Here is my edited version for today:




I noticed my edit removed the blue hue that the photo had but other than that I am not sure exactly what I did...oops.  I am hoping to get more practice in with PSE this year by starting with Ashley's tutorials.

Mother's Day (Good to Wow)

This week's Good to Wow prompt is Mother's Day.  Since my mom lives 7 hours away and I wasn't able to go visit her for mother's day I took a different approach.  On Sunday Sugarloaf Alpaca Company had an open barn event so my husband and I went over for about an hour.  There was a cria (baby alpaca) born 2 days ago and was very cute.  My original plan was to try and get mother and son together for a mother's day photo, however, the little boy was running around trying out his new legs so much he didn't want a whole lot to do with mom.  So instead I got this little boy and I am not sure how old he is but when I look at this photo I think he must be looking for his mom to wish her a Happy Mother's Day.  I hope all the mother's out there had a wonderful day.



This shot is SOOC.  I just added my watermark and re-sized for the web.

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