Digital Photo creations

Lately I've been very interested in toying with the photo editing program I got (well Ben got me , really). It started out with just touching them up and making some black and whites but has since turned into a passionate hobby of mine. I guess when you spend all day, every day, looking at the same walls you need to find something to entertain you. Anyways, here are some of the photos I've played with over the weekend.







Here you can see I turned Caraline into a real "flower girl", LOL. I also made the image look like it was painted on canvas. It didn't really turn out like I wanted. I think it would have worked better if she had been looking straight on but I think its still cute.













I was trying to capture the size of Braidons tiny hand in this photo. All that I did here was convert to black and white, and then, remove the original background. I used a mask to highlight just the center of the photo and then put on a frame.

It didn't take much to make this picture as precious as it is! I just turned it into a black and white, added the text, and framed it.

I came across a webpage for cute baby contests and the winner each week won a portrait of the baby done in this style (pop art). So I set out to see if I could do it myself and I think it turned out just like the professional ones looked like. This picture is now the wallpaper on our computer screen!







In the before picture Gavin is actually holding up a clump of Sheba's fur that he found on the floor! Ben told him to hold it up like a beard so he did and then I took over with the editing program. We've renamed Gavin "Old Man Jenkins" since this picture was created, LOL. I spend a lot of hours working on this one but I think it was well worth it. The picture turned out to look very realistic. I cloned parts of the original piece of fur and then created his beard and mustache from it. It was a very long process to say the least but I'm so happy I figured out how to do it!








This is a photo of my brothers friend. As you can see he didn't really want his picture taken. I had to learn many new techniques and practice over and over again to get this to work but I figured it out and managed to take it from "pg-13" to "G" rated. I'm very proud of myself with this one. Even if you look really close, you can't tell I changed anything.







I think it's safe to say that no picture will ever be safe again, LOL! I'm sure there will be MANY more to come as I learn new things and get better at the stuff I already know. Hope you enjoy them.
Theresa