A Little About Me

Hi. My name is Rick Peterson. Thank you for visiting my website. I'm passionate about Photoshop and have worked with it in my job for several years.

I work for the largest privately owned printing company in the world. My job has allowed me to work on some of the most high-end publications and catalogs in the country and to use Photoshop to its fullest. So it's with that experience that I started this website for users of Photoshop Elements which is an amazingly powerful program geared toward the home user.

Most of the image editing results you can get from the full version of Photoshop are achievable in Elements if you know how. I try to show you how on this website.

This website has also been part of a long healing process that feels like it will go on forever. On June 20th, 2007 my 19-year-old son unexpectedly died.

Sam's death left a huge hole in our lives. Our friends and family were (and continue to be) very supportive. My wife, my other son who is 20 months older than Sam, and myself made a pact that we would get through this together. We were fortunate to find an exceptional grief therapist. So all that support has certainly helped.

But working on this website has given me something to occupy my mind with. I feel that it is a healthy distraction because I enjoy it so much and find it quite challenging.

My hope is that my family and I will continue to heal and that as part of the process I can provide useful information to those who visit here.

Sincerely,
Rick.