A. I opened the picture on the left below in Photoshop Elements with File—Open and located the picture. Then Enhance—Adjust Lighting—Shadows/Highlights. Lighten Shadows by default lightens 50% with a slider bar. I moved the slider bar for Darken Highlights to 50% and got the results in the picture on the right. Isn’t Faye pretty sitting next to OTC?

A. Crop means to cut away unwanted space around a subject. Example: Below, the picture of Dona and Mary on the right has been cropped to the picture on the left.

A. Before you do ANY editing on a photo, make a copy and do the editing on the copy. If you’re using Photoshop Elements 3.0, click on File—Duplicate to make a copy. Close the original. You can make copies of copies, so when you’ve accomplished something you want to keep, Save the file, make another Duplicate, and work on that one. Ctrl Z is the Undo keyboard shortcut in most editors and it will usually undo several steps back.