Saturday evening my family walked down the dirt road near our home and back into the woods on our property. It was a lovely walk and just an all-around fun thing to do! And, a great opportunity for some fresh pictures. We have been busy with field trips, Little Leagu c e football games, homeschooling […]
Show Your Skills 10.16.10
October 16, 2010 by 9 Comments
Woohoo! Welcome to the second edition of Show Your Skills, a photo editing link-up party I started last week. Most participated at the Facebook fan page for Everyday Elements, but from now I am am going to be holding it here at the blog. How it works is you simply click on the image to […]
Comparison of Photoshop Elements 7, 8 and 9
October 14, 2010 by 12 Comments
Photoshop Elements 9 came out three weeks ago and I have had many people ask me which version they should buy or should they upgrade if they have an older version. Here is an overview of the last three PSE versions and my assessment. Photoshop Elements 7 came out in September, 2008. It is a […]
Kim Klassen Texture Recipe Book Giveaway
October 11, 2010 by 222 Comments
THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED. Congratulations to Laurie from Live Laugh Love, who had comment #78, and to Anita, who had comment #121. You will both receive an email from me on how to claim your prize. Good news!! Kim is generously offering a $10 off coupon code for my readers!. During the check out […]
Show Your Skills Saturday
October 9, 2010 by 26 Comments
Note for others: Everyone has played along today at the FB fan page, but please feel free to play at your blog or at Flickr and leave the link in a comment. Next week it will be here only and not at FB. Would you like to show your editing skills or practice your editing […]
Moving Forward Monday – October 4th
October 4, 2010 by 3 Comments
Not much going on with me personally to share about, other than I am probably working too much. 😉 Don’t worry, that will slow down once I have a few things wrapped up this week. Anyway, I want to share a few things that are going on this week that I do not want you […]
Fix It Friday #73
October 1, 2010 by 5 Comments
I love this week’s Fix It Friday! Kelli, a fellow South Carolinian and I Heart Faces contributor, provided this sweet picture of her beautiful daughter. It was a great picture, SOOC, and needed very little real help. To do a clean edit I used Photoshop Elements 9 and did a few Levels adjustments, a Hue/Saturation […]
Love That Shot Link Up – Sept 30
September 30, 2010 by 13 Comments
My sweet friends at Love That Shot have outdone themselves this time. Not only have they created an amazing photography/editing/scrapbooking site and forum board, but they have started hosting awesome giveaways and a weekly picture-link up party. Well, this week their link up party gets even more enjoyable because the pictures linked up will be […]
Photoshop Elements Action – Giveaway
September 23, 2010 by 19 Comments
I had planned to just share this at Facebook, where I do my regular giveaways, but since it has been down today, I am going to post in on my blog. Someone asked me yesterday if I had an action similar to Lilyblue’s Honey. I have never seen it nor do I have any of […]
Use Photo Filters to Warm or Cool Images in PSE
September 22, 2010 by 11 Comments
This is a great tutorial for those just getting started with Photoshop Elements and for those who have been using it a while and may have forgotten the quick/simple fixes. Today I am sharing about photo filter adjustment layer. It is a very useful adjustment that often gets overlooked, yet can be highly effective. Step […]
