photo-shop tutorial

I don't have a very good camera
and it isn't likely that I will get a newer or better one soon.

So I am always looking for ways to improve my images

either through a better command of lighting when taking the initial photograph

or touching up photos in photo-shop afterward.

It is all very new to me and I am still very much in the process of learning.

I came across this tutorial today

and having never known what the Sponge did
I was eager to try it out.

I just opened a picture at random
and during my son's allotted half hour of TV time,
this is what I came up with:

before: after:
I think I may have gone a bit overboard and overexposed it,
but its a start!