how to improve this photo

[pamcakes]

should i crop the hand on the left? if so, how please?

 

[mysteryscribe]

You can very carefully clone it out. Yes it would help the shot.

You want to be a little more careful than I was with it though

 

[phil-ray]

u could clone out the hand on the left, shoudlnt actualy be 2 hard, also maybe blure the background out a bit more, and even put a wee white dot in the eye of the hourse, not 2 bright just a bit more then there is in the photo. over all pretty good

 

[pamcakes]

wow, it looks so much better with the hand on the left removed! thank you!
i have to learn how to do that sort of editing myself...what program to you use to "clone"?

 

[mysteryscribe]

almost every editor has one.... Most here use photoshop i dont personally. Just a run of the mill photo editing program lots of freeware ones out there

 

[rmh159]

GIMP is free and seems to have a lot of features that Photoshop has. I'd recommend that if you're getting started.