Better Pictures

I have Photoshop now.  For a few weeks actually but it might as well had been in Chinese (or Greek or Spanish, either way I had no idea what to do in there).  A friend of mine showed me a few tricks today and now I'm practicing the different tools.  What a difference it has made, just look at this before and after:

I still have so much to learn!  And I look forward to when editing through the program feels like second nature.  The edit above seriously took me over an hour to do. I have a long way to go.