Trying out Adobe Photoshop for the first time

Today I tried Adobe Photoshop for the first time! I am glad with the final results, and I only spent an hour on all of it. Since this was my first time using photoshop, I had a hard time trying to find the tools and figuring out how to use them.

This is the first image that I made. I wanted to make something simple so that I could play around with the application before adding other photos. Even though does not look great, it turned out well for a first try. I used the smudge tool, and the ellipse and rectangle tool.

This is the second image, and believe it or not it's a banana stalk. I decided that I wanted to make the stalk look more like a tree or moss, and it turned out well. If you zoom in, the picture looks some what like a painting. I used the blur, smudge, sharpener, and hue changer tools for this picture.

For my final image, I wanted to try something harder. I wanted to photoshop two pictures together in a way where there was not a clear border between the two pictures. In my opinion, this is the best out of all the images I made, and I am glad that I got such a good result from a first try. For this picture, I used the quick selection tool, move tool, and the blur and sharpener tool.