I used my favorite Pixel Bender and made it look like an oil painting. What do you think? This sweet photo is from Kala at The Wishful Lamb. So precious. First I opened this in ACR and did some minor adjustments. Then I used Coffee Shop’s Perfect Portrait 3. Then I used Pure Haze [...]
Night & Ferris Wheel Edits
September 15, 2011 By
For this edit. I changed the color tones a little, darkened it up a tad and used Pioneer Woman’s Lovely & Ethereal. I love using that for sunsets. That is it. It looks more dramatic. I do like that you can see the clouds more in the SOOC. This original is from Kathryn who [...]
More Bubbles
September 8, 2011 By
Do you see me? First of all I ran my Light & Warm Action. Then I used the Unsharp Mask and sharpened it up. Then I used a Gaussian blur layer and a layer mask to erase it from the bubble. Then I cropped and resized the photo. I made these smaller [...]
Shoot & Edit: Pool Edit
September 1, 2011 By
This week Ashley is talking about watermarking photos. I watermark mine just to deter people taking photos of my kids, etc. Granted they could crop it out or delete it, but I would at least like to try. For my edit I boosted the color and sharpened. That’s it. Head over to Ashley’s blog to [...]
Road Closed
August 25, 2011 By
Here is my edit for Shoot & Edit: Shadows To the right is my SOOC. You can click it to see it bigger. The first thing I did was open it up in lightroom and used an action called Pop Your Colour. I am not sure where I got it from, I have had it [...]
It's Good For You {Lightroom Preset} & a Photoshop Frame
August 18, 2011 By
Ashley has been inspiring me to try and use Lightroom more. I used to use it till I came across Elements. Then upgraded to CS5. Well I decided to give Lightroom another try and I made my own Clean Preset called “It’s Good For You” {Ashley helped with the name}. I also made a Photo [...]
A Lost Monkey & A Yellow Bus?
July 21, 2011 By
My boys have been obsessed with Curious George lately. We watch “Follow That Monkey” at least once a day. It is ridiculous. The good thing is I really love monkeys and the music is pretty catchy. Anyways… moving on. Well you all know how I had Zander a while back? Well I came across a [...]
Thursday Edits
July 14, 2011 By
Here is the edit I decided on. I had such a fun time editing this photo of Bennett from the lovely Mandy @ A Sorta Fairytale.
