Graham Cracker Crumbs: A LiTTle PHotOsHoP!

Sunday, March 2, 2008

A LiTTle PHotOsHoP!

Okay...so I have a L*O*N*G ways to go in the wide world of Photoshop, but Chris was able to get me up and running again today (thanks honey!) and I have been playing around a bit this afternoon and evening! Seriously, believe me when I say I know I have SO much to learn!! Although I like this adjusted image, I know it isn't exactly everyone's style...I just wish there was more of a contrast with the background...there isn't exactly a ton of contrast in the earthy tones you find around our parts!!

Getting back to style, that is one of the most profound things I think I learned at this workshop I attended...I was SO hung up on making sure that my photos were the "right" shades of black and white...the instructor said that it is all a personal preference! And it is...photography is art and people have such a wide variety of taste in art...I guess I need to just take that bit of knowledge and RUN with it!

So...I did some shadow work to lighten up Gentry's face and then I used a color action. Actions are a pretty big thing right now in Photoshop I am realizing! They are basically adjustments that one would have to do on their own but someone has taken the time to go through layers (literally!) of work and I just push "play" and it adds the action to my image!

Now I just have to talk Chris into letting me buy the set I want online...okay, there are actually several sets and then there are borders and storyboards --- the options are endless! Thank goodness for the freebies that help us to learn!

Before...

And After...

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Huntler is our little man...our first born. I honestly can't believe it, but he turned four in September! I think I must have gotten caught up in a time warp because since we had him time has just FLOWN! He is very serious by nature...probably the most intense child I have ever met. We have way more pictures of him deep in thought than smiling from ear to ear! He has always been an easy little guy...he is very laid back and just goes with the flow. He is so sweet and caring and he loves that little sis of his more than words can express! Don't let all of this fool ya though...he can be quite ornery and the things that he comes up with these days literally crack us up!

Ahhh...Gentry girl. If ever two kids were so different! She is so sassy and spunky and full of it that there is never time for a dull moment! Although she is not a hard child by any stretch of the imagination, she DEFINITELY has opinions and isn't quite as "go with the flow" as her brother! She started talking early and there is never a quiet moment when Gentry is awake! She seems to have grown up so fast...I am sure that a lot of that has to do with the fact that she has a big brother to keep up with, but she is doing things so much faster than he did! And although she turned two in July, she is absolutely convinced she is already three!! And the way she carries on most of the time, one would definitely think she is much older than two!

As we were driving by a bunch of trees Huntler says, "I don't wiv in a jungle Daddy. I wiv in a house Daddy. I have a woof."

While driving in the car one day (yes, we do lots of driving!) Gentry says, "There ya go" to Huntler. He responds with, "I not a goat. I Huntler."

Oh sassy Miss Gentry...she is all the time saying, "I want pink wemonade!"

Whenever we say, "I love you" to one of the kids, they respond with, "Love you more." Too sweet!!

6/30/08

We were giving the kids baths and Huntler was upset. He tells Chris, "I had a weally bad day." Then he proceeds to say, "You're hurting my feelings Daddy." Needless to say, we were laughing out loud!

7/3/07

While talking about the kids' friends, Huntler says, "I have big, small and medium friends." Never quite thought of it that way before! Leave it to a 3 1/2 year old!!

7/9/08

While the kids were playing Little People this morning and Huntler was loading up the bus, I mentioned to him again about starting school soon. I am trying to prepare him for it. He is fine, I am not!

He says, "Mama be sad about me go school." He couldn't be more right!!

8/7/08

"School is for big kids Gentry, not for wittle sisters!"

8/30/08

"The farmer in the town,

The farmer in the town,

Hi-ho the radio

The farmer in the town!"

9/23/08

Chris was giving the kids baths and the following conversation came about:

Chris: "Come here little boy, let me wash you."

Huntler: "I not a little boy, I have a big head like you dad!"

Chris: "Do we have big heads because we're smart?"

Huntler: "Yeah, Mommy and Gentry aren't smart. They have little heads."

10/19/08

On a walk Huntler was talking about staying on the sidewalk. We never want to get in the street because a car could run over us and make us all flat. (I guess that is one way of looking at it!!)