Fix-It Friday #84

This weeks FIF picture is courtesy of Keli

Here is the original: 

Edit 1: 

Applied Paint The Moon's Banish Magenta action @ 65% merged

Duplicated layer, used Screen @ 45% merged

Applied Paint The Moon's Contrast boost @ 55% merged

and lastly Paint The Moon's Deep Pop no adjustments

Edit 2: 

Continued from Edit 1 then added Paint The Moon's Sandbox Simple action (can ya tell I love PTM's actions?!) 

Edit 3:

Duplicate layer Screen @ 60% merged

Adjustment layer on Brightness & Contrast

Crop & added a Gradient layer

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Shutter Love, Sweet Shot & Touch Up Tuesday

This weeks theme over at Trendy Treehouse is Overlays, thought I'd try to get back into the swing of things and post a pic I just love of my little man, he's winking at mama! :)

Added an overlay/texture adjusted the opacity to soft light at about 40%, duplicated that same layer and dropped the opacity down to about 20%.

I'm never sure on working with overlays/textures if you should erase from the face/skin in pictures, to me this one looks ok, but sometimes it just looks off, but then erasing it can look off. What are your suggestions? 

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Fix-It Friday #83

This week we have an awesome picture from Angie Arthur to edit

I didn't have a chance to write down my edits as I went, the first is mainly adjustment layers using screen and soft light and adjusting the opacity. The second is a black white conversion along with a bit of a crop. Hope you enjoy! 

Original:

First edit:

Edit 2:

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Wordless Wednesday!

Just another week in our house. I worked all weekend and am looking forward to having this next off. I have made the decision to attempt to get our house in better shape, organization wise so I am tackling one big project on my weekends off and small ones during the week. I start this week going through Quinn's bedroom that he shares with his older 1/2 bothers and boy oh boy that should've been one I waited for a weekend to start! I'm still in the process of getting it back into shape and all the stuff to get rid of off the top bunk b/4 his brothers show up on friday! Hmmmm....wonder if I'll make it? lol

Hiding under his desk

My Little Iron Man! 

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Fix-It Friday #82

It's time again for Fix-It Friday over at i heart faces! This adorable photo is courtesy of  Rachel Durik of Savor Photography. We all get the chance to play with the photo a bit and learn new tips and tricks from all those participating! I use PSE 7 for my editing.

Here is the original

Edit 1: 

First I duplicated the image and used Screen w/opacity 65% then merged

Next I adjusted the contrast, increasing it 50%

Cropped the image and here you have it...

Edit 2:

Continuing from Edit 1

I applied Paint the Moon's Hair & Eye Pop Action then merged

Next applied Paint the Moon's Sandbox Simple Action, tweaked the layers and Merged. 

Adorable! :)

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Playing Wii!

Santa brought us a new Wii (ours died last year sometime) and it's the red anniversary edition! :)

Ok so I've had no time to get any new pics uploaded this week, does it seriously have to be such an issue for me? Maybe if I didn't work between up to 3 different computers, felt more secure bringing the camera to work with me, just plain old had more time? Maybe I'd get them done a lot sooner, but who knows, it seems to be my one nemesis! I have kept with my 365 project, its just a matter of getting them all uploaded! ;)

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