try below, their are also videos on youtube that walk you thru Here is a link that might be useful: Link to google search

Thanks Casey. I will go and look. I also have PictureIt too Maryanne. (How are you feeling?) I used it years ago with my first scanner and I loved it. I bought the latest version just last month and I'd forgotten all about it. Thanks you too. I will post the end result when I'm through with it...IF I figure it out. LOL If not I'll come back her and one of you can take my little hand and walk me through it. Lori who is having a really 'dumb-dumber-than-usual day'

Yes, that is an upgrade/newer version of Elements 5. I have Elements 5 and there's a TON of stuff you can do with it. However, it's not the least bit intuitive when you get beyond basic photo enhancing, IMO and how successful you will be with it depends on the type of learner you are. I don't do well trying to figure things out on my own, hunting and pecking and just playing around to see what happens, but some people do. I need a class, a teacher and specific tasks to learn specific skills. If you have access to Photoshop classes, I'd check them out first and see if #1 you want to spend that money to learn over and above the cost of the program and #2 if they will be teaching to specific skills that you want to learn. I have taken classes and learned a lot but find that unless I'm using it all the time I quickly forget things - how did I do that again??? But that's also a function of age, I think ;-) Squirrel uses a different program for a lot of the cool stuff she does - can't remember for sure which but I think it's a Microsoft program that's no longer available

I tried doing what is recommended for the color correction - making a photo of a "grey card" at the same location, then the plant, and using a first photo for custom correction of the white balance. The worse is the light - the more improvement you see. If you use daylight spectrum source of light - it is not really that much of a difference. When you are tweaking it by the photo editing software - the useful tool is "saturation" - but you only use it in a very subtle way. It gives a photo a little boost in a vividness of the colors... as long as you do not exceed 20%.. I would like to know how to produce "kodak colors" without compromising the palette... but so far it eludes me. It seems to me that the light requirements for growing, observing and taking photos - are 3 independent things. The easiest is growing - the plants are not picky - cool light, day light, LED... as long as we are in a ball park of usable wavelengths and intensity - they will grow. Means as long as you do not use incandescent bulbs as a main source of light- and do not under or overload them with not enough or way too much - they will grow and bloom. The way how they look - day light, grow light, full spectrum... there is a way to boost reds so the human eye perceives them as vivid. You do not take advantage of it - your reds will look like a dead meat instead of ruby reds. Because in reality the reds are all coral reds... The way how you make photos - you need brighter light - and probably some kind of a day light corrected source. Higher then the plants actually need for growing. Think about photo studio - with bright lights from the sides, staged background... specialized flashes... I talk too much ... as usual... Any ideas? Irina