Photo Finish!

Im currently taking a class with the very talented Elisha Snow on Big Picture Classes which is all about the post-processing of our photo’s. I use Photoshop Elements to tweak my photo’s but the program is so intense and capable of so much that its great to have someone show you the basics and the ‘how to'. Elisha has also introduced us to Adobe Lightroom and shooting in RAW format and I am already hooked!  On our walk yesterday with the dogs I snapped a few photo’s to play around with for my week 1 assignment.

The photo of Mia on the left is the original photo I took and the one on the right is the result of some basic editing in Lightroom and Photoshop to give the photo some warmth and correct / improve the lighting.

Here are some more shots from the walk which have not been edited:

And finally another comparison set, this time featuring Amy & Miley:

Its only week one of the class so I’ll be posting more updates and assignments as I go along.

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Dee
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Adorable Smile

 

This week I played along with the Bird is The Word challenge  for the first time.  The challenge word is ‘Adore’ although I lengthened mine and went with ‘adorable’ instead.

The papers are Crate Paper Farmhouse and yes, I know I have been using them a lot lately . . .lol.  They are fabulous and so versatile.

This LO is also for last week’s weekly challenge on UKS. The criteria there was to use Autumnal colours, a cut out photo, glitter and/ or bugs and finally paint.

I distressed the yellow paper with 2 different shades of acrylic paint dabbers as well as using paint on the ‘honeycomb’ chipboard. The flowers and chipboard were glittered with stickles and I added a dragonfly for my bug. The photo is of Joe back in 2000. It was perfect for cutting out as there was a lot of background featuring other child from the park.

Over the past few weeks I haven't felt like scrapping much at all but thankfully that feeling is starting to turn and in fact I could quite happily sit in here and scrap all day at the moment!

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Dee
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OUAS Giveaway!!!!

I love to follow the challenge blog Once Upon A Sketch – the layouts you see on there are submitted from all over the world and are so inspiring.

Right now they are offering this fabulous prize to one lucky winner -

Oh what a parcel of lushness that would be to receive in the post!
Stop by their blog and check it out for yourselves.

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Dee
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My Creative Sketches #2 – Country Life

Wow there is nothing like an approaching deadline to get me scrapping!  Since my return from the weekend retreat at the end of October I have hardly done any scrapbooking. I did however manager to do 7 layouts at the retreat, didn’t quite beat my personal best of 8 but it was close enough, so I have those still yet to photograph and blog.

Anyway, back to the deadline!  My Creative Sketches Big Fall Contest #2 sketch ends in 2 days so I thought I had better get on with mine. This is the sketch for this month:

And here is my layout – Country Life
I love this photo of Eugene taken earlier this year while we were on one of our many walks.

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Dee
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