My Adventures in Photoshop (Elements)

So thanks to my friend and co-worker Amanda, I spent most of our slow day at work today getting some awesome lessons in Photoshop Elements. I'll be honest, before today I was pretty much just messing around with different settings, tools and actions until I thought the pictures looked good. There was little to no real thought being put into it. Lets call it educated guessing. Now I really know how to use a lot of the different tools and layers. And what things to look for and why I should change them.

So here is a series of edits.This first one is SOOC.

This is my first edit that I did on my own a few days ago. I couldn't tell you how I got it to look this way.

In this next one, I took the already edited version and just reduced the amount of red. What a difference!

Then I started over from scratch. And when I say I, I mean Amanda mostly. We reduced the amount of blue, adjusted the levels a pinch and added a little contrast. Then we desaturated the wall she is sitting on because the color stood out to much.

And in this last one we (ok, Amanda) added an artificial fish eye effect just for fun!


I think I like my original edit with the reduced red the best. Opinions?