Really....Last one!

Here's my toothless wonder, Anna. The original, straight out of the camera is just beautiful, but, you know me.....

I brightened her eyes, whitened her teeth, softened her skin a bit, and brought out more of the pink tones in her skin.

Before and After...

OK, now leave me alone, photoshop!! I have laundry to do!
Lisa

OK, last one....for today. Honest.

This is a tree in our side yard. The photo is pretty good the way it is, but I thought it could use a color boost.

So, I cropped it and increased the saturation to bring out the blue in the sky, which also brought out the blue in the snow. But photoshop helped me to get the blue out of the now in the trees.

I also burnt the edges of the picture ever so slightly to bring out the tree. Not too bad, eh?

Before and After...

OK, I think I'll stop for today, right after I figure out how to get the snow to look smooth instead of having all those ugly snow mobile tracks in them.

Lisa

Another Photoshop Editing Job

Here is a picture of Elyse and Mark we took last week at Grandma's house.

Notice how dark the foreground is. The background is very light so the flash didn't go off. But that's ok when you have photoshop. *smile*

So, I cropped it and made some adjustments to the lighting and color, sharpened Elyses face, took some of the redness out of her complection (it was very cold and they were out sledding), and voila!

What a difference! Photoshop allowed me to take a photo that wasn't all that great, and turn it into something worth framing!

Before...

After!

I'm having so much fun!

Lisa

I Love Photoshop!!

So, I got a new toy! We invested in Photoshop CS4 and I just can't get enough of it. It will take me a life time to learn how to use most of the tools in it, but I'm having fun learning.

Here's something I just did. Below is a photo I took of Elyse around Christmas. Those of you who got Christmas cards from us might remember this picture on the card. Well, I edited those Christmas card photos online on a neat site called Picnik.com. Great site, but it's not photshop!

To show you what I recently did in photoshop I'll show you the straight out of the camera shot with no editing.

Before photoshop....

And after photoshop!

Wow! OK, Elyse would never wear this much make up in real life. But I added this much only because I am trying to learn how to use this new toy of mine.



I think I'm addicted. Is that a bad thing?


Lisa

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow??

I'm not one to "love" snow. Sure, it's beautiful....but only from the inside of our Shoe, in my humble opinion. OK, not really. Wait...yes, really.

I can't make up my mind.

You see, it can be a long and miserable winter here in Vermont. Not being able to come and go as I please gets old after a month of winter. Or, the end of fall...like now. That depresses me more thinking that winter hasn't even officially arrived!!

So, this morning, I took a very very short walk outside around our Shoe after moving the vehicles so that my husband could plow the snow off the drive way. It was so pretty out, and so quiet and peaceful (unlike the inside of the Shoe).

So, I took a few pictures of things I found lovely to look at. Here ya go!

Have I ever mentioned I want to be a photographer when I grow up?

I do love virgin snow. It always reminds us of how the Lord forgives our sins and washes us clean, like pure white snow. It's a beautiful truth.....and a beautiful sight.

Love,
Lisa

King of ALL Chicken Wing Eaters...

We love wings at our house. Especially hot wings! Especially these wings! But, because we have several little rugrats a few small children in the house, I always make some without the spicy sauce.

Who do you think stripped these bones clean?

Would you believe MARK did??? This child loves wings! He'll even eat them spicy. But I don't give him much more than a little bite of the spicy ones because I know it may upset his tummy.

It wasn't long ago I had to peel all the meat off for him so that he could eat them. Not any more.

This kid goes to town while eating wings! He would eat the bones if I let him. He often eats all the gristle off the ends. He's like his mama. I love gristle.

One for each hand.

Yummy, aren't they, baby boy??

I love watching him eat. He thoroughly enjoys his food. But ya know what the best part about Mark and this particular wing meal was?

OK, Besides his BIG brown eyes....

His dinner attire.

But his yummy plump baby thighs will have to be a totally different post altogether! It would be completely wrong to write anything about his BEEFY thighs in a CHICKEN WING post!

Wouldn't you agree?

Love,

Lisa