Playing around with Picasa

In lieu of buying Photoshop, I downloaded Picasa from google. It has some neat features for the beginning photographer. I was able to take a picture of my 2 year old, put focal color in the middle and then blur the edges to get the following effect:


This is what the original looked like:

There are some other neat features, too. The only downside is that I can't seem to retrieve the orginal on my computer once I make the changes. I've gotten around this by storing the original in Picasa online. Not an ideal solution, but one that works for now.