Saturday, April 05, 2008

Photoshop Elements 6

Yes! I finally bought Adobe Photoshop Elements 6! I've wanted this for a few weeks now. I think I got a good deal. At Staples yesterday, with tax, the total came to just under $85. Fortunately, Judy Kerman gave me an introductory tutorial today. Until yesterday, I'd never used Photoshop before.

Anyway, now we have an unequivocal answer to that pressing historical question: exactly how did Walt Whitman change after reading essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson? Here we have before and after photos:
























Ralph Waldo Emerson: Proud to be an American

Emerson's essays influenced Whitman as a poet. Emerson's letter to Whitman gave Whitman more confidence as a poet in the public eye so to speak.

For more on Emerson's influence on Whitman, see
http://www.classroomelectric.org/volume1/belasco/whitman-emerson.htm
For more regarding Emerson's famous letter to Whitman, see
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mcc:@field(DOCID+@lit(mcc/012






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