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Today's Obsession: Photoshop Actions
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Monday, February 22, 2010. I got PSE8 for my birthday and have finally installed some actions. Here's how they work: You find them online and download them into Photoshop. Then they appear in your styles and effects palette. They save a ton of time! For example, say I'm starting with this photo:. I can also change the color of just the shirt by selecting with the magic wand and desaturating:. They have actions for creating vignettes, retouching portraits, selective color, making pics look antique, etc.
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Today's Obsession: August 2010
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010. In an earlier post, I showed you the Photoshopped mock-ups I made for the kids to approve their bedroom designs. Here's how my daughter's room turned out:. The carpet was originally blue. We dyed it purple. Thank goodness I only needed to paint half the wall, because that pink took at least 5 coats! That's what I get for buying cheap paint. She loves her new room and calls this her princess bed. 3. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Random Bits of Thought. Before you have kids.
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Today's Obsession: October 2009
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Thursday, October 29, 2009. This week, I've been backing up my photos and organizing my albums. I love albums with a spot for a photo on the front cover. For our Thanksgiving album, I didn't use a regular photo. Instead, I grabbed a Norman Rockwell painting, lowered the opacity, and topped with some wordart. Monday, October 26, 2009. The kids' birthday albums are officially up to date! Today I worked on my Mother's Day album. Here's the page for 2008:. Sunday, October 25, 2009. Monday, October 19, 2009.
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Today's Obsession: Prepping photos for framing
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Thursday, February 18, 2010. Prepping photos for framing. I wanted to frame my kids' recent school photos in the 4x6 frames I'd recently bought. Here's the original pic of my son:. The problem was that they weren't the right proportion and I didn't want to crop them. To solve the problem, I stole a page from the digital scrapbooking book. I opened a 4x6 document in Photoshop and covered it with a patterned digital scrapbooking paper. Then, I plopped the photo down on top of it. And the 4x6 version:.
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Today's Obsession: Stalking Geese
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Friday, February 26, 2010. I love the fields of geese near our home here in MD. I kept passing by them without my camera (or even cameraphone! I finally remembered to put my camera in the car and realized that I am officially stalking the geese. Here's a pic I took today:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Prepping photos for framing. Random Bits of Thought. Before you have kids.
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Today's Obsession: Framed!
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010. For some reason, decorating relieves stress for me. That creates a bit of a conundrum because during this stressful time I'm living in someone else's home! Fortunately, my mother-in-law has been very gracious. Color Theory: In the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew, everybody painted their living room walls mauve. It is said that mauve relieves insanity. It is a color often used in prisons and hospitals for similar reasons. Then I played musical frames. I started with these:.
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Today's Obsession: December 2009
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Thursday, December 17, 2009. I've just begun experimenting with clipping masks. What's that, you ask? Here's an example of a clipping mask I found online:. You stick in in Photoshop and "clip" a photo or paper to it. The results look like this:. You can use this technique with any shape your heart desires! Here's a random clipart image I had on my computer:. Here it is after clipping some digital papers to it:. What do you think? Monday, December 7, 2009. I picked up the kids, sold their plastic playhous...
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Today's Obsession: September 2009
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009. Making Memories recently had a challenge based on the song lyrics "Every generation has a chance to change the world." A picture of my son sprang to mind. In it, he was holding a big green balloon. I decided to see if I could turn it into a globe. I first removed the string and tie. Then I pasted a globe onto a new layer. Tip: By adjusting the opacity of the globe, I could see where his fingers were (so I knew exactly where to erase). I look forward to hearing your thoughts!
