Doing all the neat things our photo editing software can do is the *most* fun. Something else that takes practice, practice, practice as we both know!
My silhouetted cowgirl was ALL shades of black and white - a few tricks with color and shading on the hat and some stars and *rhinestones*, and voila! it came alive!
I wondered where that frame magically appeared..wonderful!
I have ACDSee and Paint..Greek to me. I am still struggling with tables!
It is! It is like therapy for me. I start working with something, like that little bear, and have not a clue where I am going with it. I just keep trying different things and playing until I like what I have. That is how I have learned photoshop, just from playing and experimenting. Haven't read a bit of the manual. The nice thing is, nothing that you do in these editing programs is permanent until you make it so and, even then, it can often be undone.
I am beginning to venture (again) into animations, but I find it frustrating and tedious, for some reason.