Fix-It Friday #26

It's Fix it Friday again! I've waited until the end of the day to work on this one :) I've got the Baseball game on, and I'm playin' with pictures. Life is good.

This week's picture is of a beautiful little girl.

I was SO determined to do something creative this week, and feel like I failed miserably...It's not that I don't like my edit-I do, but I feel like anyone could come up with this...oh well. I keep trying. I DID learn something new...I used the 'burn tool' for the first time and thought I'd died and gone to Heaven. I had no idea I could do that on Photoshop! YAY! So, it wasn't all a loss :)

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Fix-It Friday #25

It's Fix-It Friday again. This morning when my alarm went off, I was about to crawl back in bed, and then I remembered, 'I get to mess around with a picture!' so I stayed up :) Above is the picture to be edited...

And here is my edit. I really tried to work with layers more, because they intimidate me, and I want to learn how! I don't remember exactly what I did, but I know I opened the picture up in Camera Raw mode and adjusted it there a bit. Then I made an adjustment layer and used the eye dropper tool to select the red on his face to try and bring it down a bit. I used another layer...a filter layer I think? I warmed the picture up a bit. I was really tempted to keep it really 'warm'...it looked kinda cool, but pretty unnatural :) I then flattened the layers, played with his eyes a bit, lassoed his ears and bumped the red down a bit, and selected his lips and bumped the color up a bit. Then I used a square crop. I'm really stuck on square crops lately...I wish I knew how Andrea Riley did that crop all crooked...maybe you can't do that on PSE7.

Anyway, that's what I did! (I think...)

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Which one's bigger?

Playing with layers today...here's my shot SOOC

And my edit. I did a fill layer and an adjustment layer. Really starting to like layers...gotta learn more about 'em!

Lashes

My beautiful baby boy...

Something New

I thought I would try something new. I found this site that lists weekly menu plans, and I love planing out my menu! I thought I could get some new ideas too :) The site is: orgjunkie.com. Go check it out!

Anyway...here's my plan

Monday: Colorful Chicken Casserole
Tuesday: Chicken with Southwestern Salsa
Wednesday: Honey-Dijon Chicken
Thursday: Leftovers
Friday: Chicken, & Arroz con Gondules (hey, my husband is Puerto Rican...we have to have rice & beans at least once a week :) )
Saturday: Pancakes
Sunday: Chicken Noodle Soup with home-made noodles

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Fix it Friday #24

I love Fridays! Here's my fix it :)

Above is the original

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Crazy, Silly, Funny Face!

Here's my 'funny face' picture. My little cutie just started making this face, and now he does it all the time. It cracks me up!

This is my 'pets' entry. I loved this picture from our vacation!
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Fix-It Friday #23

YAY! It's Fix-It Friday!

Here's the picture...practicly perfect SOOC...

Here's my edit. I opened it in Raw and played around with the color there. I got it to 'almost black and white' but left quite a bit of color still in it. Then I opened it up in PSE7. I cropped it, used Pioneer Woman's technique for eyes, and darkened the edges. I also bumped up the color of the petal he was holding in his hand. Fun!

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Peace

I love being on vacation...