To fix the shadow on this one I used the magic wand tool in PSE9 to get the shadow areas selecting areas going down the photo and in the space by his arm a bit at a time. I used 3 px feather with this. As it will pick little bits and pieces of the hair you need to be careful in those areas not to remove what you don't want to remove. I just used the selection tool to give me a pretty good outline and make my next step easier. I then cloned out each area being careful to clone from areas nearby where I was working so the colors would match better. After cloning you may find a little shadow left. Carefully clone those out with a small brush. If you need to get color to match better in some places either use cloning or the healing brush.

A while ago I bout a Nikon d5100, a couple of different high end lens, some filters, etc, etc, etc from a camera store here in town. He said he would give me lessons and I would be satisfies or he would take it all back. Well, I'm not satisfied and he won't take it back, hasn't been a month and I'm not following his directions. My birds look like fuzzy blobs, my grand kids look like b movie monsters, my insects look like I took a picture of something that is all green, the sky is white, the clouds are indistinguishable and so on.
I look at the work posted and wonder why can't I do that? I have excellent equipment, an eye for composition. I ask the guy that's supposedly teaching me and his stock answer is 'be patient with yourself it will come.' My stock annswer is 'so is the Grim Reaper who is going to be first?'
I bought Photo Shop Elements and the only thing I understand is the title page the rest is gibbrish.
I think I'm going back to my original hobby of critiquing news commentators.

A while ago I bout a Nikon d5100, a couple of different high end lens, some filters, etc, etc, etc from a camera store here in town. He said he would give me lessons and I would be satisfies or he would take it all back. Well, I'm not satisfied and he won't take it back, hasn't been a month and I'm not following his directions. My birds look like fuzzy blobs, my grand kids look like b movie monsters, my insects look like I took a picture of something that is all green, the sky is white, the clouds are indistinguishable and so on.
I look at the work posted and wonder why can't I do that? I have excellent equipment, an eye for composition. I ask the guy that's supposedly teaching me and his stock answer is 'be patient with yourself it will come.' My stock annswer is 'so is the Grim Reaper who is going to be first?'
I bought Photo Shop Elements and the only thing I understand is the title page the rest is gibbrish.
I think I'm going back to my original hobby of critiquing news commentators.

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I loved the good ole days also. I still have my old Cannonflex, the 1st SLR Canon made. It had a seperate lightmeter that attatched to the shutterspeed dial and rotated as you changed shutter speeds. Had the old flash unit that unfolded to form the reflector and the socked to plug in your flashbulb. A friend had a collection of old 5 x 7 glass negatives I scanned in for him. They were taken somewhere in Japan around 1930. The quality is just as good as todays cameras can produce. Here are a couple for you to check out.

Holy Smokes, PitchurMan! We didn't get anything close those great photos of yours! You definitely know how to compose/frame subject matter. Those are keepers. One photo we got I thought was cute was this one of a little dutch girl standing in the central square, by the water fountain. Her nose had been scraped in some sort of a mishap, but she was a real cutie.