Photoshop briefly

Photoshop is an incredible tool for digital photographs, but it can be daunting to use for the first time, and in fact can and usually does take years to find your way around it. The best way to begin is to get some tuition, maybe a night class.
Once you find your way around Photoshop it becomes a magic tool of endless possibilities.

So long as you have taken a good sharp photo, whatever clutter is in the background can be taken out in Photoshop. By cropping you hone in on what is most valuable about the photo. But the more you crop the more pixels you lose which can influence the enlargement to a great degree. If you crop too much and lose too many pixels then the photo won't be able to be enlarged too much before it becomes blurred. So it is always best to get in as close as you can and fill the frame only with what you really want to be there if you want to blow the picture up to a large size.

Photoshop is great for taking a person or thing out of one photo and putting it into another; in fact it is only your imagination that would set limits on the possibilities of Photoshop.

A word to the raw. On DSLRs there is jpeg and raw. Until you know better just stick to jpeg. Raw files have a lot of information and need the right software to open and use and then save to jpeg.
Jpeg is the file you would upload to a site that accepts photos. Raw files can and do make the best photos because they have so much information stored in them, but they do take up a lot of memory and are slow to use.

Learning the technical aspects of modern digital cameras can be fun and there is not much that can go wrong that can't be fixed, so have fun, point and shoot, and see what comes out, you never know but that the next shot could be the one to make your day.
Photographs by me and done on photoshop