My first visit here.

I too am addicted to photoshop. I am not a pro, but sure enjoy it anyway!
I would love to visit here, learn some things and show some of my work for
critiques. I can take hard core brutal honesty...as I realize I am a not a pro,
and am in need of more experience and education in the art of photography,
as well as working with photoshop!!

Here's my first attempt at posting something I put togther.


I took the large pic and the top pic, the below pic is of this pups sire.
That pic was taken by my brother. The subject's name is RocKRoll's Royce.

Thanks
Linda

Excellent subject! If you'd like, I can try to walk you through removing the runner.

Nice job so far.

First, you need to spend some time going thru the different ways of making selection masks. The wonderful marching ants around something you want to select.

There are a hundred different ways to select parts of a photo, start with these tutorials
http://www.teamphotoshop.com/The%20Tools-4,8,3.html

Especially look at the oned that deal with different methods of making a 'selection'. Ie.
http://www.teamphotoshop.com/articles-The-Tools-Using-Channels-To-Make-Selections-4,8,35a.html
http://www.teamphotoshop.com/articles-The-Tools-Creating-a-mask-and-painting-on-a-mask-4,8,16a.html
http://www.teamphotoshop.com/articles-The-Tools-Blending-edges-when-you-are-making-a-composite-photo-4,8,6a.html
http://www.teamphotoshop.com/articles-The-Tools-Make-your-selections-by-using-the-color-range-command-4,8,2a.html
http://www.teamphotoshop.com/articles-The-Tools-The-magic-wand-tool-A-great-way-to-make-your-selections-4,8,1a.html

THEN... once you've gone thru those, go through the photo retouching study (7 tutorials) starting here >>>
http://www.teamphotoshop.com/articles-The-Tools-Retouching-a-photo-Step-1-Using-Levels-4,8,9a.html

Let us know how it's going!