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Now before we get into the meat and potatoes of exactly how to manipulate pictures in Photoshop, I need to give you some advice that is going to keep your frustration level way, way low. OK, now when you bring in photographs from all your different sources, you are going to bring in photographs possibly from your digital camera, you are going to download some photographs from the internet, you are going to bring them in from your scanner, your flat-bed scanner or your slide scanner, and over time, you are going to have quite a collection of images on your hard drive, and trust me when I tell you you are going back to them at different times and in and out and doing all kinds of stuff, and the way to keep your frustration level at an absolute minimum is to get organized with your files. It's very, very important. I want to show you what I have done here. We go to a directory called Dad and these are all the photographs that my dad wants and that are his stuff, and so what I have done is, for instance, this photograph right here dad flight suit, I don't even have to click on it, I know that's a photograph of my dad in his flight suit when he was in flight training in World War Two. So we open this file and you will notice this is an original scan. Nothing has been done to this photograph yet, but I want to make a point to you. When you bring your photos in, and you start to work on them, you are not going to get finished in one session. And so you are going to save your work, which is okay and we will go through how to do all of that, but the point I am trying to make is that when you bring your original scan in the Photoshop, start working on it, the minute you make one change, go up here to file - save as and then bring in the name of the original scan, go down here and give it just a numerical extension. Now in this case I have this particular photo and it has already got a flight suit two, flight suit three, four, and five. So just for the sake of conversation here, I am going to give it a six and then we are going to save. Don't worry about all this I will explain it to you later, but notice up here how the name changes to dad flight suit six. When you keep working on it and you get maybe this thing taken care of, when you get some of these white blotches out, but you don't get it completely finished and you want to save it, close out Photoshop and then maybe work on it two days from now. So what you should do is bring this Dad flight suit six image back up and you still have your original scan available to you. And this is important because as you go down doing work on a photograph you may reach a point where you say, I don't like this at all, I want to start over again and that happens all the time. So what is going to happen when you have altered your original scan? You have to go back and scan it again or bring it down off the internet and maybe you can't find it again, whatever, it is a big pain in the rear. So when you start manipulating a photo always save it and give it a numerical extension of some kind; the reason that is important is because when you go to your directory and you are looking at all your pictures, you are going to have your original, you are going to have maybe a partially manipulated photo, and then maybe a stage three manipulation, or maybe you did something different from your first manipulation, you are experimenting a little bit, and then possibly your final version that you want to print. Each of those versions you are going to want to save and rather than hodge podge and skip around in your directory, have it all grouped in one place so that you can glance at one and know where everything is. Trust me when I tell you, it is so much easier when you are dealing with multiple files and different versions of the same photograph, it just helps immensely in your organization. So you bring this up, you have done some work on it, you save it, you give it an extension number, and then you can compare the original with what you have done. And if you do not like it, you can start over. But again, get organized with your files in some way, so that you are not spending all your time looking for a file, rather than working on it.