Another learning curve

After all the talking that Rick & Paulette's RV Travels and TRAVEL WITH THE BAYFIELD BUNCH-)) have been doing about the Picasa3 photo edit program, I finally decided to download the program and give it a try this weekend.  I’ve been using Microsoft Picture It!, but it is a rather old program.  (which means it’s about 5 or6 years old in technology time)  So tonight’s pictures are from my playing around with the new program.  I’ve got a way to go with figuring everything out, but I’m determined.  :)
Emma and I went on a drive of some of the back roads again this evening for me to get some shots to experiment with.
I must say that there are a lot more bells and whistles to tinker with, and the program works a lot quicker than what I was using.
Flowers can’t run or fly away from you, so I thought I’d start there.  :)
A slightly different view of Henry’s Lake.  I took a national forest dirt road up the hillside across from the campground.
Then we took a drive up to the continental divide.  It’s open range around here, so bovine encounters are quite common in the summer.

I tinkered around with some other features of the Picasa3 program, and really liked setting up a collage of pictures from the coast of Oregon for my desktop background.  I also tried the sharpening button for all of these pictures, and just can’t discern what that button does.  Maybe my eyes are going??  It didn’t seem to have any effect on the pics that I could see.  Maybe one of you folks that uses Picasa can tell me what it is that it does.

Well, I’ve procrastinated long enough.  Tomorrow is definitely going to be a day to do chores.  Too bad Emma couldn’t earn her keep by not shedding, or doing the vacuuming, or defrosting the freezer, or something.  :o)

Thanks for stopping by….talk to you later,  Judy