Photographing Trees

I am still trying to learn how to use the camera on my smart phone. It is pretty bad when a phone is smarter than its user. :)

Some of the pictures are coming out looking like impressionistic images instead of regular photographs. I guess that is because I do not know how to properly use the zoom feature and they were shot in low-light situations. Anyway, I decided that I would go with that thought and play around with the pictures in Photoshop and Painter to try to get an even more impressionistic feel from the images.

I would love to hear your thoughts on this image. I have a zillion more to play with!

Photoshop Help, Please!

I am working on a Photoshop template project and I need a few folks to test the template for me as well as offer feedback on the instructions that I wrote for using the template.

The first five people to respond to this post in the comment section will be sent the template and instructions. The file is just under 8mb.

This is a practice template for me with nothing fancy. I am hoping that will change in time. :)

So, any takers? Would any of you be willing to help me get this figured out?

Thanks in advance!

Your sis in Christ,
Suz aka "Annie"

Here is what I did with it using some of our family photos.

Wrapping Up the Week

One of the challenges that I've signed up for this year is called Creative Every Day. Creativity can be expressed in a multitude of ways. One of the ways I've chosen this week is to search for public domain images to play with in Photoshop. I found the following sign post at: Ireland First.

I flipped it around so that the arrows would be pointing in the direction that was logical for my current location, labeled the signs, added a few aging filters, and turned the grass and clovers green to come up with this:

One thing that I learned during this project was to save once you get a version that you like. Then, save it again just in case you didn't really save it before when you thought you did. I didn't and lost a way better version than this one.

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We were out earlier today and saw two of the cutest little blond girls, both probably around two years old. They reminded us of our oldest daughter when she was about the same age. The one had the bluest eyes and was wearing a black dress with big, white polka dots, super cute. Then, there went the finger to the nose. You know what was next...that finger went to her mouth. I guess she got tired of waiting for the happy meal.

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I found the following quote earlier today after seeing a Mark Twain quote on Pinterest and thought that I would share it here with you.

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain

What dreams are you not living because it is safer to stay in the harbor than to risk a broken sail? Share them with me. I'd love to hear them!