Another One With A Fairly New Canon 500d

[Malamum]

I ended up buying myself a 500D a few months ago. I haven't taken it off auto yet as I want to get off my butt and do a course so I can learn what all the manual functions actually mean.

I've taken it overseas a few times and have got some pictures I'm happy with (for holiday snaps that is), but I'm not very creative unfortunatley.

I looked through the 52 weeks for dogs thread yesterday and everyones pictures are amazing.

I've never ever used any photo editing software before, other than cropping and red-eye removal so thought I would take some nice but boring photos and try to liven them up a bit by experimenting in Photoscape. I have no idea what any of the features actually mean so as a start began by playing around with the filter feature and just clicking things willy nilly.

Here are a couple of pictures of Kira that are not great but it's given me a hint of what I can do with editing software so I'm looking forward to spending a bit more time playing around with it and learning how to use it properly.

[kja]

I personally find randomly clicking menus and sliding sliders and pushing buttons in my software and on my camera is the best way to learn stuff :rolleyes:

Glad you're having a great time with the new toys!