One week down...

Here's the first week of June from the "Photo A Day" challenge.

June 1 ~ Many
June 2 ~ Looking Up
June 3 ~ Silly
June 4 ~ Starts with "B"
June 5 ~ Looking Down
June 6 ~ Who am I
June 7 ~ Forgotten

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FMS Photo A Day Challenge

Week 4

Prompts for the week:

*  1/19 - Homemade

*  1/20 - Window

*  1/21 - In a row

*  1/22 - Collection

*  1/23 - Something far away

*  1/24 - Playtime

*  1/25 - Black and White

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Bringing in 2015

From all of us at DarkDecors.com, 

We wish you a happy, 

healthy, prosperous, 

dreams come true 

New Year!

Haunted House

This house was taken by Carrie Lago during her trip to Bristol, CT.  Edited by me in PicMonkey and Corel PSP.

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A sweet little SALE

Only two left...pick one up over at DarkDecors!

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Lines - Photo Art Friday

This weeks challenge is "lines" and of course any photo art of your choice.  I didn't have enough time to take a new shot for this challenge (as much as I wish I could have), so I had to look at some of my photos I've already taken.  

The photo I chose, I took while I was visiting my sister in Texas. 

I first added a soft blend script to the photo then went into my instant effects and added the "tone map high".  I used one of Bonnie's fabulous free textures, "Other Worlds" Overlay mode, blend at 100% and lastly I added a little vignette.

After all the processing, not sure if you can see or even notice the seagull flying by the Ferris Wheel.

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Photo Art Friday

It's been a while since I've participated in Bonnie's "Photo Art Friday" challenge.  This weeks challenge we have a choice of either making our own photo art using at least one of her textures or a piece of photo art that has elements 'hidden in plain sight'.

I decided to give myself a bit of a challenge, mainly because I just loved the examples she used to show us, and I needed a good challenge.  Let me tell you it was a challenge for me, I was really having a hard time trying to come up with some type of theme or what to put in as "hidden elements".

This is what I came up with...

Here are the two main photos I used for this challenge:

I also used Bonnie's fabulous free texture "Dreams of Spring".

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Photo Art Friday

I'm only a day late at posting and joining this wonderful challenge.  I'm just sorry that I haven't had time to practice "masking" for this week, but hopefully this coming week I'll find more time to play.

Here is my submission for this weeks challenge, you are able to submit a piece of your photo art of your choice...

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I've been learning a new technique "painter".  I've only been practicing using this method for about a week now (have so much to learn) but I think this looks pretty good considering.  I so need to purchase a Wacom...sigh.  It's really hard with a mouse, but then I've never used one of those tablets either.

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Vintage Appeal

I've seen a certain effect being used on photos lately, probably some really cool "Action" for Photoshop, they have this vintage feel and look to them.  So, I've set out to figure out how to accomplish this with my available photo editing programs.  Here's one I've done in both Paint Shop Pro and Picnik.com (used on same photo).

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What do you think?  Am I getting close?  Any suggestions or how to's would be extremely welcomed.  Off to try more!

It's another.....

Texture Tuesday

Our assignment this week is to take a photo with people or person and use one of Kim Klassen's texture.  

This photo was taken on Father's Day of my son with his father, our dog Leggs and a dear friend of the family.  We had our friends over and barbequed.  The day started out a little bit windy, but ended up beautifully.

I first duplicated my photo, added Gaussen Blur at 7% radius and erased the blur from the subjects.  I merged my two photos added Kim Klassen's Portrait texture at 100% Burn merged down again and added the same texture again using blend mode Soft Light at 100% and slightly went around the subjects with the eraser tool.

Here is the original.

 

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Kim Klassen's Texture Tuesday

Wow...I can't believe how fast the week goes by.  Here it is time for another Texture Tuesday.  I didn't really head out to take any new photo for this week, since all we had to do was use one of Kim Klassen's fabulous texture to any photo.  So here is mine from a family vacation to San Diego.  We were hanging out on the beach and this seagull was getting in to everyone's bag when they'd leave...it was pretty funny.  Anyway, he looked straight at me and I took the shot.

I used Kim's newest free texture "Mayzee".  I first adjusted the photo using the bright/contrast curves.  Then I added the texture blend mode Overlay 100%, taking any texture off the bird.  I then added another layer using the same texture with Soft Light 100%.  I went to my paint brushes and used one that said distress and changed the color to match the background and added it to add some well "distress" look to it.  I also used a paint brush that was called "marbling" and added a little touch of that around the photo.

Textured Tuesday

This week we're to use Kim Klassen's textured "Yester Year".

Here's the before....

and the after....

The way I applied the texture was 100% Multiply then I added a new raster layer using Earth Tone gradient at Soft Light 100%.

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Happy Editing everyone!