The rest of the photoshop class

Scott had a fireside tonight so I had some time by myself when all of the kids were in bed to finish. 

Day 10 Project Start to Finish

Today we started by making our own clipping mask, added in two textures, a type overlay and using two fonts on it, and then adding an edge burn to it. 

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I have never had the gift of words and of course I could not pick two words that I liked to describe the picture but this was the best I have come up with so far.

 

Day 11 Selective/Spot Recoloring

Ok, here is another lesson that I figured out on my own a few days earlier but I did not do it on a black and white photo.  The way she did it was a little different and easier than the way I figured it out on the wedding picture with Nat and Kaitlyn.

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After I colored in the flower I just could not resist getting her bright yellow big bird clippies in there too.

 

Day 12 Storyboards

When I saw this technique I knew I just had to use the pictures of Emmalyn pulling the petals off of a flower.

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Day 13 Collage + Brush

When I saw this I thought it would take forever to do but it went surprising fast.

Day 14 Final Project (collage + selective color + font)

Wow. I made it through all of the lessons and even ended on time, I never thought that would happen!  For this lesson we just made some changes to the previous collage.

 

That is it for now.  I hope you all have enjoyed seeing these pictures, they were a blast to make.

more class pictures

I continued playing with one of the pictures I had open after my last post here and added some words that night.  I think that I am going to have to put this one up on the wall somewhere.

Lesson 5 with words added

I have been playing around with the fonts and so far this is the best one I have found but I still think I can do better before I get it printed.  I will have to check out some more free fonts on the web.

As I went to the next lesson I had found out that I had already done it on the previous picture by adding a frame to it so I did another one too.

“Super Duper Bonus Challenge”  (Project 3 Frame + Texture + Clipping Mask)

When adding the clipping mask to the picture it made the frame more like an added texture.  It is the flowery/filigree-ish details on the top left and bottom right.

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Day 6 TTV (Through The Viewfinder) and Mega Challenge

The TTV technique is making your picture look like it was taken through the view finder of an old camera.  And for the challenge you were to add any of the previous lessons.  I made it vintage-y with hand tinting to her cheeks and eyes.

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Day 7 was just a self check (in other words a quiz) on some of the techniques we have already learned

Day 8 Type

Well I had accidentally figured this one out on my own a few lessons ago, actually I figured it out when I was first creating the blog, as it is how I did our banner at the top.  So of course I had to try something else,  I figured out a way to de-saturate the photo and then bring the color back to just the flowers.  (She also had us adding texture to the picture but I tried several of them and I like it much better with out so I removed the texture but I will have to try some of the cool textures on future pics.)

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Day 9 Edge Burn

This technique is supposed to draw the eye to the middle (or where ever your focal point is).  This was great because you can help hide some of the background junk in the picture so that your eye isn't drawn to it.

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The difference is very subtle in the picture but it makes the kids pop a little bit. 

Edge burning on this one really helped to hide the cluttered kitchen counters!

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Well that was it for today.  Tomorrow I will hopefully get to work on lesson 10 and I think that tomorrow is our last day with lesson 14! 

Photo Editing Class

I signed up to do a free online photo editing class.  The class started last week and I am just now getting around to doing it.  I was able to play around with the first 5 lessons.  It was fun and I know that I will be spending too much time playing with my pictures in the future.  Here is some of what we have done.

 

Lesson 1 Frames and Word Art

 

 

Lesson 2 Brushes 

 

 

Lesson 3 Creating a Vintage, Hand-Tinted Look

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Project 2 Frame + Brush + Hand-Tint

 

Lesson 4 Clipping Masks (And I also gave it the vintage look)

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Lesson 5 Textures (I also added a frame)

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Well that is as far as I have made it so far.  I will post again when I have gone through a few more of the lessons.  By the way if you are interested the class I am taking is called Photo Editing: Frame-ups and Special Effects and is at http://www.jessicasprague.com/.  (I am not sure if you can still register for the class or not but here is the link I went to http://www.jessicasprague.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=976:free-photo-editing-class&catid=1:latest&Itemid=148)

Sliders and Fries Anyone?

 

  We wanted to surprise Scott with something special last week.  The kids wanted to make him cupcakes and I had run across some cute ones on a cooking blog a few weeks ago, so we decided to give it a try.  The buns are a yellow cake cupcake, the beef patties are brownies and the fries are sugar cookies.  They turned out so cute, they were even fairly easy to make, just time consuming.  The kids really had a blast putting the ketchup, mustard, and lettuce frosting on.  Note to any of you who want to try this, do not use ziplock sandwich type baggies as… , great now I cannot even think of the proper name, the cake decorating frosting bag thingies.  The kids burst all 3 of the bags by squeezing too hard.  It was a mess and I ended up having to dig out the decorator bags anyways.  Oh well, we all had a blast.  We even made some of them into Big Macs because the kids didn't like how I was not using the middle of the cupcakes.  We had Scott fooled.  When he first came home and saw them sitting on the table he thought that we had changed dinner plans on him and he thought that they were real burgers.