Home Sweet Home

We had to pick a picture to upload tonight and show a before and after picture. I decided on taking a picture from my hometown, Oxford, Mississippi. William Faulkner was a famous author who resided in Oxford with his family for many years. His home in downtown Oxford is a famous landmark that locals visit regularly for portraits and tours. Here are my pictures of his famous home, Rowan Oak.

I combined my before and after pictures into one.

As far as Picassa is concerned, I was extremely confused while trying to use it.  When I wanted to load a picture, I couldn't find where to load it at and then all of a sudden the picture I had edited in Picnik appeared.  Once I did have a picture to work with, I played with the editing tools.  I really love the option to picture pile.  I was able to create a picture on top of my big picture.  The smaller picture looked like an old Polaroid picture from the camera that my grandfather used to use.  It was very neat to be able to be so extremely creative with the picture.  I can only imagine what I would be able to do with more pictures available.  I also loved the ability to change the effects of the picture.  I tried for a while to find a program that would allow me to blur out the background of a picture and focus on the subject.  I was unsuccessful in finding a program, but tonight I found it! Picassa's effects has the option of a "soft focus" which allowed me to do just that.  Hallelujah! After working through my frustration, I think if I really dug into Picassa I would truly enjoy all of the capabilities of it.  I feel like right now I have just scratched the surface.