Independence Day Layouts

I is for Independence Day!

The first two layouts are quick pages called Main Squeeze QP & the bottom LO is called USA Mini kit. Both are free from 

My Memories. The stars overlay is a freebie from Life-n-Reflection.

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Lori

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Day at the Park

Recently we took Vallon to play at the park and they also had a water feature there to cool off with. He had a blast. Here is one photo I took that day.

This one I opened in Pic Monkey. 

I lighted, brightened and cropped the image.

I used the Airbrush feature over the entire image to reduce any noise.

Lastly used the Effects, choose Yester-color, and that's it!

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Lori

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Tuesday Tutorial | Flag Face

Today I gave Sarah and Ashley's Tuesday Tutorial a try. I had a lot of fun with this one, and will make this my Facebook picture.

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Lori

A Little Vintage Randomness

I take random photos to play around with and here is one.

Working with an action called A Little Vintage, 

Normal, opacity @ 100%

It has a Blur action I used, Soft Light opacity @ 56%

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Lori

Rose Edit

This is my SOOC

And this is my edit.

Although I love the way this looks, this edit really was suppose to have more to it. I was following along to the Tuesday Tutorial that Sarah and Ashley have. I discovered I have a really hard time with brushes! I was going to read on this and finish, which I will, but I do honestly like this look.  

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Egrets Tones and Textures

Today I found myself playing around with this photo of an egret I took recently. I love this bird  and the photo I took, he was just so still taking in his moment.

For this first one I really just lightened and gave a little contrast, then cropped the photo. 

 This one I changed to Black and White, cropped and lightened a bit.

 For this one I added a vintage feel and lomo, I like this one.

And lastly for this one I cloned out the background to give more of the bayou feel and added a texture from A Rural Journal called Victoria, @ 88% Soft Light.

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Lori

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The Mysterious Lizard

After uploading image
I lightened in Picasa, added contrast and warmed the image.
Watermarked and saved.


We have a ton of these lizard's around our house and I have no idea what they are called. I have never seen them before this Spring.

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Blue Heron

Blue Herons are such beauties!

Even in Black and White

In Picasa I changed the image to black & white and then opened in PSE10

I added Old Paper Normal @ 66% opacity.

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Lori

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The Elusive Woodpecker

A friend or foe?

I love birds and I LOVE woodpeckers, they are stunning to look at! But to captured with my camera has been a difficult experience for me for awhile. While this isn't the best shot it could be, it's the best I have done thus far.

 I warmed the image first in Piacasa

Cropped

Opened in PSE10

Added LNR texture Spring Song 100% Overlay

Now I love it!

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And if you have any tips or suggestions for me, I'm open for them! :)

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Lori

Hand

The Paper Mama Photo Challenge this week is "Hand:

My interpretation:

My grandson waiting for mom to go home. Makes me sad to see them leave.


Edited in Picasa
Added Sepia tone, used the shadow slider to adjust the tones
Slight HDR effect


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Lori

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From Above

I love taking pictures of feet, well children's feet that is! All my little daycare kids' feet and my grandson's are in there somewhere. 

I liked this in Sepia much better than color, and that's all that I did to this photo.

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Lori

Tuesday Tips & Pics

I don't really know if I'm the right person to give tips and how to's.I wanted a picture of my daughter and her friend for my 366 Project, and we took the photo indoors. Which right there can be a bad idea for me, the lighting in my house is poor, so my photos indoor rarely come out well.
Here's what I took Sooc:

 See how bad this looks, and the noise in the photo. I tried to work with it in PSE and nothing.

So  what I usually do when I have a lighting problem is change the photo to b&w. I cropped this image, added softness in Picasa and adjusted the shadow slider. I liked this much better and I will use this for my project.

ISO 3200  1/60s  f/5.0 39mm 

Any tips are welcome.

Thanks for stopping by,

Lori