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Friday, August 28, 2009

Handmade Postcard and a Friday Fill-In

Uh-oh, I've been bitten hard by the Photoshop bug. There was a time that I spent every available bit of time reading, playing, watching videos, and subscribing to Photoshop User magazine (which is included in a NAPP membership). And then, as with all things, I moved on to other things. But I saw a few things in the Yahoo! groups I belong to and heard a few things here and there and decided to try a bit of playing with pictures and BAM! it bit me. Sure hope it isn't itchy or worse yet, fatal.

While playing with Photoshop yesterday, I opened up one of my favorite pictures from this Spring, a bluebird closeup. I couldn't wait to try the art history brush on him. I tried with different sizes of brush and different tolerances until I liked what transpired. And then, I used him to make a postcard. I think I will put a shiny layer or two over it to protect it, but except for that and a message I think he is done.



I've found a fun little exercise called Friday Fill-in and here is mine:



Lots to do today to get ready for a visit to the far north (only 4 hours, but a long trip alone). I also hope to get something creative done today and I haven't even made coffee yet. Better get on it.

Don't forget to visit Wednesday's post to get into the drawing!

I will try to find a way to get to the WiFi places in order to keep up with the blog and to announce the winner of the drawing which will be decided by a random number generator some time on Monday.

See you.....

4 comments:

  1. My dear Vicki , you are so good at so many things! The photoshop bluebird is really wonderful, and what a great idea to turn him into a postcard. It was fun checkin' out your list, too. Keep in touch and safe travels. hugs, nancy

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  2. Vicki thanks for stopping by my blog. Your work here is wonderful, love the bird postcard, what a treat for receiver. Wish I could get my head around photo shop. My 17 yo son is a genius at it and leaves me in the dust when teaching me.
    Keep up your beautiful work!

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  3. Love the bird! I haven't gotten my feet wet yet with Photoshop, although I need it badly. I just never seem to get enough time to think I can start and devote to learning pieces of it. I know, I know, one bite at a time.....

    Nanc in Lansing

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  4. I agree about being bitten by PS. I'm just starting and I have been spending way too much time on it. I'm not quite sure what you did here but it looks really great and a postcard to boot! You could also make notecards with it.

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