11 posts tagged “editing”

It started raining about this time last night and hasn't stopped.  I'm glad I was at work all day.  My shoes and socks got soaked walking across the parking lot this morning, but they dried out after a couple of hours!  I forgot to take my camera this morning.  Darn!  I ended up making a really cute frog cake freehand, more or less, and several really cute pumpkins. 

Since I don't have cake photos to share, I'll go back to our family pictures from Sunday.  I finally figured out where my computer put them!

 

Here's my favorite photo of my great-grandson with his mother.  He was 1 month old on October 1st. 

 

Here's my youngest grandson.  He was born January 26th of this year.  He usually has a great big smile.  I like this more serious look.

 

And last but not least, a close up of the baby.  I was holding him and looking into his eyes when I took this.  My camera has a pre-flash that goes off when you depress the shutter half way so you can focus the camera by pointing it at the subject and depressing the shutter.  I was holding the camera above my head. 

Since I'm never one to leave well enough alone, here is one of the dahlias edited with a watercolor filter. 

 

Here's watercolor plus film grain.  I used to think I wouldn't like effects like this, but they are growing on me. 

Need to go work on dinner.  I'm going to make a beef roast, mashed pototoes, fresh green beans, and German chocolate cake.  The cake is coming straight out of a box and the icing is coming right out of a can, but it will still taste good.  If it was any better, I would eat the whole thing a one setting!  Toodles.

I've been playing around with editing effects.  Here's what I did to one of my petunia blossoms. 

I decided to do a bit more experimenting with the glowing edges filter this morning.  Here's another tulip.

 

It almost looks like something from outer space.  This is the red tulip with the bright yellow base. 

One more photo from my photo editing efforts.  This is a red tulip that I edited with a glowing edges filter.  I love the neon look.  Enough photos for one night.  I'm going to go do a little sewing.

Saturday was the only time I had to take any pictures, so I'm limited to shots of my new grandson, Luke.  He was 6 days old in these shots.  All where edited with Microsoft Picture It! Premium 10. 

 

Here is an original taken in black and white.  Only editing was resizing.

 

Same black and white photo with antique filter applied. 

 

Same shot with soft edges.  I like this one best. 

 

 

This one was taken in black and white with flash on.  I did crop it and increase the contrast. 

 

Here's the same pose taken in color in the auto mode and changed to black and white with photo editing program.  I like the one taken in black and white better.  The details are much sharper.

 

Here's my favorite color shot, unedited. 

 

And here's my favorite edited shot.  I took #032, changed it to black and white, then changed it to a negative, then applied a gradual transparency.  I like the soft translucent look, like it is floating in space.

Just a quickie to show you my new grandson and a little bit of editing that I did.  It's way past my bedtime and I have to work tomorrow (darn!), so you will just have to wait for more pics.

 

Here's Luke Preston at six days old.  He weighed 7 lbs 14 oz when he was born, so he is pretty good size.  All the light in the picture is from the flash on my camera.  He was in a fairly dark room. 

 

Here's what I came up with with just a little bit of editing.  I rather like it!  It looks more fragile.  I think I will enter these two in the Photo Quest this week.  Hope I have time to do some more editing tomorrow after I get home from work. 

I installed some new software on my computer tonight.  I've been experimenting with the photo editing program.  I didn't do anything to this wildflower except copy and resize.  I'm going to have to spend a lot more time working with it to really know what I am doing! 

I got one batch of crab apple jelly made this afternoon.  It is a very labor-intensive project, but the results are worth it.  We had to have several pieces of butter bread with jelly just to make sure it was edible!  I worked on one more pan full of apples just to have a head start on tomorrow's batch.  I wanted to get a picture of the jars sitting on the window sill of the kitchen, but my camera was upstairs and I was too tired to go get it.  I would have made the effort, but I knew I would have another chance tomorrow. 

My interview tomorrow is at 9:00 in the morning, so I may not get around to checking my email until after I get home.  I'll need to leave the house by 8:00.  It really doesn't take that long to get there, but I like to give myself a little wiggle room.   

I played around with some of my editing software and lightened this daisy up quite a bit.  I think I like this one better.  It almost looks like the sun is shining on it. 

Busy day today, but I feel like I accomplished quite a bit.  I cut out and started working on a spring wall hanging.  It has an appliqued center square surrounded by rag quilted squares.  I like the way it is coming together. 

I stopped this afternoon to make cookies.  I know.  I can't remember the last time I made cookies.  I tried to double a recipe that I had made once or twice before.  I had a hard time getting enough liquid worked in for them to stick together.  They taste a lot like the Girl Scout peanut butter oatmeal cookies. 

Then our son called and said they were coming out.  I hadn't seen them for a month or so, so it was nice that they were coming.  I had planned to make Not Stuffed Peppers for dinner, but by the time I finished with the cookies, it was getting late, so I went with Plan B.  Everything turned out good, and we enjoyed playing with the kids (they have three), until it got to be bedtime, then everyone suddenly got crabby. 

I came up to the computer and was able to copy a document off a web site into a Works document, edit the document to get it formatted right again, and even make a separate spreadsheet and edit it into the document.  It may not sound like much to you computer experts, but I have never done anything like that before.  Everything I know about the computer I picked up on my own, mostly by trial and error. 

Bedtime now.  Especially since we will lose an hour of sleep tonight.  Later!