Sitting on my duff for days on end, you’d think I’d be super-productive with my blogging, and laptop projects.
But, no, keeping my feet up, ignoring a painful infection, somehow necessitates lots of mindless TV – Fa La La Lifetime Christmas specials, and all those House and NCIS reruns that are new to me. That’s about as productive as my other activity – looking out the window like the photographer in Hitchcock’s Rear Window.
My foot is healing, but I’m losing brain cells fast, and faster (or was it dumb, and dumber?)
What I need is a project! Yeah, I know. Friends have heard me say more than once that I need a new project like I need a hole in the head, even as I take on a new one.
But, what I have in mind is more like a continuation of an ongoing hobby – digital photography.
Last year, I picked up a copy of Adobe Creative Suite 3 Edition which includes the professional version of Adobe Photoshop, the premiere graphics editing software. It’s fabulous, but I don’t have a clue how to use it.
Mostly, I use the consumer version Adobe Photoshop Elements which is super easy to use to improve your photos. Even with this digital-photography-for-dummies version, the only photo editing I do is cropping and auto fix.
Fortunately, there are lots of options for learning how to use these programs online, although just one seems plenty for now:
How To Master Photoshop In One Week – I really like this. It’s short and free, and promises to make me a pro in just three, easy lessons. Too good to be true? I’ll let you know after I try it.
Lynda.com – When I’m ready to really learn all the ins and out of Photoshop, for a low monthly fee, I can watch video tutorials on pretty much any, and all, software.
Or, I can just go back to watching the whiny and irascible Dr. House. There’s a certain perverse pleasure, if you can call it that, in speculating about the most obscure diagnosis when you have your own weirdly grotesque bacterial infection. I’m weird that way.
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Hope your infection heals fast. Sounds painful and dangerous.
Take care and Merry Christmas,
Sherri
I hope that the infection has by now gone away, or at least is more relieved.
Beautiful photo. I love snowy scenes.
~ Kristi