I'll let you in on a little secret...

I'm a Pioneer Woman freak. As in, I'm obsessed with every little thing she has to say, and enter to win her contests even though I'm one out of like 40,000 (not exaggerating) and I'll never win. I also just discovered her about 3 months ago, so I'm about 4 years behind....

One of the things that I've picked up from her site is these Actions that she's created for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. (This is my little post-processing secret mentioned earlier) I've downloaded these for my computer and I have to admit that I've wasted spent countless hours editing and "actioning" my photos. I LOVE it. I love combining multiple actions and then changing saturations and hues. (Confession: I did have a computer graphic design class in my first year of college the first time through. However, that was a long time ago and I'm pretty sure that you don't need any experience in Photoshop to run these actions.) I wish I could remember the combination of actions I used for these pics, but I don't. Sorry :(

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If you're a photography junkie like me, I highly recommend Photoshop if you can afford it. I received Photoshop Elements as a gift a few years ago and I. Love. It. All these were modified in Photoshop Elements. The super expensive version is definitely not a necessity; you can produce amazing quality pictures with the cheaper Elements version.

Check out PW's Actions:
Photoshop
Photoshop Elements

*Note: Blogger is giving me HELL right now, so if these don't look properly formatted, that would be why!