I recently purchased Adobe Photoshop Elements 6. I may have made a huge mistake.

The reason you ask? Because I don’t know what the heck I am doing. It’s like taking a shot in the dark and hoping you will hit the right target.

I have a client who would like me to make minor changes to her website when needed. Nothing major, just minor date changes and such, but she has quite a few graphics on her website that have text typed into them.

Silly me, I thought I could just buy this software, and poof, I could just change the text. Well, I come to find out that isn’t so. You have to create layers and so on.

I went to the support and watched the tutorials and it doesn’t do what it says it should be doing.

I then Googled for free online tutorials and all I found were tutorials that you have to pay for and because I am frugal, I opted not to sign up for anything.

My next step was to put a post on Facebook and Twitter to beg for assistance and much to my surprise I did get quite a few suggestions and one offer for a free tutorial. His name is Mike Garcia and he walked me through a number of things. I am so grateful for his help. He did suggest that in the future I should purchase the full blown Adobe Photoshop. We’ll see.

In the meantime, I am going to practice and see what I can come up with.

Keep your fingers crossed.