a bit of encouragement & inspiration.

I don’t know much of a daring adventure my life has been lately, but I find this quote inspiring, and I certainly aspire to live my life as a daring adventure!

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and when will you be 50 dear?

So another year has gone by; and here I am another year older. When I turned 40 last year, I had high hopes. They didn’t quite pan out. But 41 could be the best year ever! Yesterday I watched the “Birthday” episode of AbFab. I think I will watch that every year for my birthday. [...]

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photoshop friday.

I had some time this past Friday to work in Photoshop some more. Thought I would share some of my exercises…enjoy! Here is the original photo. Here I played with the transformation option…this was fun! I used the ‘reduce noise’ filter on this photo. The changes are subtle compared to the original. This one was [...]

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photoshop friday – retouch and transform.

This past Friday I started the section on retouching and transforming photos. I learned how to change the canvas size, which is pretty cool. Even cooler was learning how to use the Actions palette to automatically make a frame around my photo. I have heard of actions before, but I didn’t know there were any [...]

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photoshop friday – playing with color, part 2.

This past Friday I played around with color some more, applying different effects from the Image/Adjustments menu. I used the same photo as last time. Again, here is the original. Here is the photo using the Desaturate option. This option changes a color image to grayscale. And the Posterize option, which allows you to choose [...]

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photoshop friday – playing with color.

I mentioned a little while back that I have been attempting to learn Photoshop, and Friday is my dedicated night for doing just that. Right now I’ve been reading about making quick and simple image adjustments. As I read I often open a photo to play with to help me understand and remember what I’ve [...]

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something new, something blue.

I finished my new banner. How do you like it? I am generally pleased with it – I really like the photos I chose for the background. I’m not entirely pleased with the text – I wanted to make it stand out a little more, but I didn’t want to cover up the photos too [...]

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