Yellow

This week is "Yellow" photo challenge over at I heart faces. Stop by to play along or just browse through all the awesome entries.



When I think of yellow, I think of summer! Nothing says summer to me more then dirt under the fingernails, spaghetti straps and corn on the cob! Yum.

Fix-It Friday #52

It's Fix-It Friday again on:



I had a ton of fun editing the below photo. I did some cloning, a little lightening, a bit of color correction with some color pop and then played with some of my favorite Florabella actions.

Original Photo:


My original fix (just a bit of color pop with vignette):


Played around with a bit of summer vintage:


And then, my personal favorite for this particular photo:

Fix-It Friday #50

Late on this one too... but still had to play along. Love the door she is sitting in front of.

Original Photo:


My fixed version... needed an urban feel.


Here is the vintage & followed by the black & white version I did as well:




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I Heart Faces - #49

The picture is just adorable! I had fun playing around even though I'm super late. Oh well. :)

The original photo:


My edited version:


Here is one more edit of this photo I did. This time with a soft urban feel:


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I Heart Faces - Photo Collage

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Here's my collage. Daddy time.

Fix-It Friday #48

I love editing photo's, so I figured I needed to start joining in on the photo editing on...

Here is the original photo they gave (adorable girl):

Here is my fixed version of the photo:

The program I use to edit photos is Photoshop Elements 6. The following are the steps I took to edit this photo:
- adjusted levels a tad to brighten up
- I adjusted color for skin tone
- opened up color curves and increased midtones (to lighten the photo)
- I cloned out the snow flake on her hat. It was a bit of a distraction to my eye.
- used dodge/burn to bring out the eyes
- I also used coffeeshop actions, perfect portraiture but I turned off color pop and vignette and adjusted others to my liking. *side note, coffeeshop actions are awesome if you have photoshop elements. Must go to her site and check out all that Rita offers.
-to top off the photo I used color pop from the Florabella action in the color & haze set. I adjusted the settings there as well to my liking.
- just sharpened a tad for the web and thats it.

Here is my black/white version:

I converted my edited version to black/white and then I like to add a tad brown to the hue and a tad navy blue. Pretty simple.

I was having a bit of fun, so here is a bit of an urban feel of the photo I did using cosmopolitan of Florabella actions, adjusted to my liking again:


Don't judge to harshly, first time here. Love the practice. I had fun! :)

Hogle Zoo

When Lurlyn and Leify were in town we went to the zoo and I got tons of great pics. This one was one of my favorites cause Aubriana loved riding the carousel. I also love the new papers I bought from Catscrap to go with the pics. I can't wait to scrap more from the Zoo.

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I scraplifted the layout by Lena Brandenburg. Everything is from Creashens Tamed Kit at Catscrap. I also used Danielle's Worn Photo Overlays also at Catscrap.