Experience in editing images

Discuss your experience so far editing images in Photoshop. Topic examples include: how you come up with your ideas, what you find interesting, what you would like to work on, etc.

My experience so far in editing the images in PhotoShop has been disastrous. I believe this is because I am new to this type of software and do not feel comfortable using it. Also since I do not have the software at home makes me have to use it on campus. When I get out of class I find myself too sleepy and unmotivated to want to stay on campus, after a hard days work. I tried to download the shareware versions of the Adobe Photoshop and initially I went through many screens where as I was prompted to commit to purchasing something in turn for getting the software usage for 30 days. Finally I got to a sight where I was able to download the software for thirty days, but it was semi-functional. When I brought my partially finished software from OSU and began editing it, I found that the features I had at school went away when I used the software at home. The issues that I found out about using the software at home was that I did not contain the full features, therefore, causing what was done at school to go away. Then I found out that if I e-mailed so of my projects home, the firewall in my home computer listed the e-mails as viruses.

I would like to work on learning how to embed the images better and smooth out the rough spots.