First attempt without DeAnn's Assistance

Okay, so I am trying to learn photoshop all by myself....Not an easy task with as few viable brain cells that are left in my noggin.

Here is the original photo:



Here is the cropped:



And here is the altered:



For you photoshop gurus, this may seem really simple, but I had to get the crop thing down right (actually it took longer than you would think), I had to make a layer and turn the layer black and white, and then remove the black and white to make the colored shapes. Finally I got to flatten the image. Hopefully my future attempts will be more intricate!!