Pioneer Woman has me obsessed with trying to conquer Photoshop. So far I have a few features that I’m getting good at, and I’m trying lots of new things! I don’t have the full photoshop, I have Elements, which is fine for me because if I had the full version I know I would be confused! The only reason I wish I had the full version is so I could download “Actions“, Pioneer Woman has a few of her own that you can use- for free! Using an action speeds up the editing process, it does many steps in 1 click of a button, so I hear.. Here are some before and afters that some of Pioneer Woman’s fans made.

Take a look at some of my before and afters.. got any pointers?

First up: My cute cat Chase.

2nd Example: I took this during the floods we had.

3rd Example: Scott planting corn. I am alone lots during the evenings now because Scott spends his time getting field work done, spring is a busy busy time for farmers! So when I bring him dinner, sometimes I decide to do photoshoots of him planting. So very exciting. (Getting fancy in this edit, I even straightened the picture!)

Another one from the field series. I tried cropping this one. I’m not really good at cropping, I always make it look awkward. And normally I’m happy with how the picture was in the first place. This one worked though, I think.

I actually showed you this picture before.. but what I didn’t tell you was that I edited the sidewalk! See in the Before lots of stuff on the path and I erased it like magic in the 2nd one. Skills I tell ya!

So there are some of my examples. What are your favourite editing tools on photoshop? Any tricks to teach me? Anything you would have done differently in my pictures?