I Heart Faces: Sports and Pets

Posted on July 14, 2009

This week I got really lucky! We had a great day at the beach yesterday learning about Stand-up Paddling and Surfing with Na Kama Kai. This group of volunteers were great with the kids, very knowledgeable in their field, and full of the Aloha spirit. I was very impressed by the planning and attention to safety of the Keiki! Obviously I had to have my camera with me because what kind of mom would I be without chronicling such a great activity for the girls?

My Sports entry is my youngest daughter. I call it the birth of a monster! Why? Because she never wanted to be off the board after her first taste of surfing! LOL!

My Pet entry is this little dog that was playing with the kids on the beach and went surfing, too. He was a sweet little thing!

Now head over to I ♥ Faces and check out all the other entries!

 

Fix – It Friday: Most Beautiful Gift

Posted on July 3, 2009

Today is Fix-It Friday over at I ♥ Faces. This is a cute picture they gave us to work with! Wonderful focus and an adorable little girl with BIG blue eyes!

My first version, I started with a Snap action from MCP Actions and reduced opacity to about 25%. Then I used Shadow bump action from On The Spot Studio set Heart and Soul. Then, A Touch of Color from MCP Actions, added a vignette and decided the shadows were still a bit too blue so used a selective color layer and reduced the cyans in the Reds, Whites, and Neutrals, added a little yellow in those, as well, and voila!

For version 2, I added an action that I like and am not sure where it came from, but it’s called Blue Pumpkin. It adds a slight vintage warmth to the picture.

For most of my BW conversions, I use MCP Take Action On Cancer and play with the different color layers. For this one, I added the black layer at the default for a little more depth in the shadows and the Peach layer at about 4% for slight warmth.

For some better how-to’s, head on over to:

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