[bcaulf]

The beauty of digital photography is that you can take pictures all day at no cost and see your results instantly. So instead of running this program, get your friend with an SLR to go on an outing with you and let you do most of the shooting.

Go outside and fill up a memory card while you systematically work through the settings. After you get the hang of exposure you can start in on the different settings for metering, autofocus, manual focus, jpeg processing, black and white, motor drive, use of flash, different lenses, not to mention composition choices, interacting with the subject, use of filters, creative panning or rotating. Real photography is more fun than tweaking sliders on a flash app.