Campfire+Birthday+Cake

I tried several photo editing programs. Microsoft Picture Manager, HP Image Zone (which is now called [|Photosmart Essential]) and [|Photoshop]. The Microsoft program offered very basic editing features. I could resize, crop, adjust color and red eye, flip and rotate. HP Image Zone also offers the ability to add some special effects. The following pictures were edited in HP Image Zone.





In the next photo, I used one of the special effects to "posterize" my photo. It isn't very exciting.



I played around with Photoshop for a long time and found it a bit complicated, but I had fun playing with the filter feature. This picture was one of my favorite looks.