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

If you're interested in joining in click here.

Texture

I've been working on creating my own textures to use on photos.  Here's one using two photo's I've taken and made a few adjustments using "curve" and different brushes and tones.

Playing with textures

Playing around in Pixlr Express using Shadow House Creation's textures (sorry can't remember which ones) and different types of blending modes.

Texture Tuesday with...

Kim Klassen

This week TT challenge is Another Free and Easy Edition!  All we have to do is use any of Kim's fabulous texture, that's it!

First I opened my photo in GIMP and used "Dawn Clouds" script.  Then I used Kim's texture Minus 43, sorry I'm not sure which blending mode I used more than likely it was Multiply at approx. 87%.  I took the saturation down a bit and increased the contrast in curves.

This picture was taken on my last visit back home (Texas) this is down in Kemah on the boardwalk.  

For more information on Kim's Texture Tuesday, click here.

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Shadow and Light Challenge

Photo Art Friday

I had to dig through my archives to find a photo for this weeks challenge.  I added Bonnie's texture "Age it" on blending mode Hardlight at 87%.

For more information on Photo Art Friday, click here.

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Portrait

Photo Art Friday!

Our theme this week is "Portrait"...

This is a photo of my son.  We were on vacation in Lake Tahoe and walking around the town.  We were at a cross walk waiting for the light to change and I took advantage of the opportunity to take the "shot".

I took the saturation down added a soft brown filter and added Skeletal Mess grunge texture.

If you're interested in Photo Art Friday...click on the picture below.

Creating...

I didn't get my post made in time for Photo Art Friday, but I still wanted to post my picture I worked on anyway.  We were to use one of her textures and make a collage or any photo art we choose.

I took 4 photos of my own along with one of Bonnie's texture (which now I can't remember exactly which one...sorry).

  I then went into Pixlr Express and chose "white ripped" to add the rip paper look.

Today, I was looking through some photos of mine that I haven't edited yet and played around with curves, filters and different modes....

Here is the original...

I just love playing around in photo editing programs, it's amazing all the things you can do...especially if you're just being creative.

I hope to see everyone at the next Photo Art Friday!

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Texture Tuesday - The Love eDition

It's been quite awhile since I participated in Kim Klassen's Texture Tuesday challenge.  This week's challenge is to use any of her fabulous textures themed around the word "Love".

One day I was up at the park close to my house and on the track that goes around the park were all these tiny little flowers that had fallen off the trees.  This idea came to me to scoop them up and spell a word out of them.  So I came up with the word "love" and thought I could use my fingers using the "peace" sign for the "v" and in one photo I could convey two messages; Love and Peace.  That's what I had felt at the time.

I used Kim's texture "More Magic" using screen mode at 100%, I felt it was very suited for this photo because of all the inspiring words on it.  I also used a filter called "glamour glow" to darken it a bit and it also softened it.

Here is the original photo.

If you're interested in Kim's challenge click here.  Maybe you'd like to get inspired by others photography either way, you'll be happy you did.

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Linking up with...

Photo Art Friday

Our challenge this week is to use Bonnie's fabulous free texture, "Leafy Landscape" with any of our photos.

For more information on  Photo Art Friday and to see more wonderful photography go to Pixel Dust Photo Art blog.

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