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Nicole Van has come out with a new set of textures that are just lovely. Go ahead and take a look, you know you want to. :) Nicole Van Photography blog I turned Holly's image into a black and white and used her texture called Chic Washed . Changed the blend mode on the texture to multiply. I just love it!! Directions for my black & white process: Press the letter D to set your colors to the default colors. I usually make a duplicate layer. I go into the adjustment layer area and apply a gradient map . Use Ctrl E to merge it into your duplicate image. Now open a Levels adjustment layer and lighten you skin tones. This means.. move your white slider in and move your black slider in until you get an effect you like. Ctrl E to merge your levels into your image. If you want it a little lighter, you can make another duplicate layer of your black and white layer and change the blend mode to screen. Reduce the opacity of this layer way down until you like the effect. Happy Weekend! ~ki

Let's see if I have the images down? They should be larger now?? Yipee!! Now I have to figure out how to get my header to fit? Almost there.... Holly got a new latptop for graduation. This is the background image I made to fit her screen. She loves it!

I am making some changes to my blog. Please understand the construction. Thanks!! =) ~kimi~

Click on the image for a bigger view. So today I offer you a challenge. I was so tired of turning on my computer and looking at the same image over and over on my desktop that I created the one above. Of course... I think it turned out super cool. :) What do you have on yours? Don't you think it should be something you kreated yourself? Of course you do!! I can hear you saying... I can't do that..... but I know you can!! Here is what I did. On my desktop screen. I right clicked and chose properties. Then I went to settings. This gives you your screen resolution. Create a new document the same size. Next I found an interesting scrap paper. I made mine, you can download it here Next I added an image, changing the blend mode to soft light and used my move tool to bump it over to the left. I knew I wanted a scroll around Grace's eye so I dug around in my brushes for something that would work. Stamped a new layer and used Ctrl T to freetransform it to fit. Played with my blend

Click on image for a bigger view. Well... my baby graduates from high school tonight. Boy am I melancholy. What does a Momma do when that is all she knows for the last 32 years. She is beautiful isn't she? This was Holly Saturday night for her prom. Gosh how I love that kid!! Things will get back to normal here soon. All we have left after this is her Dance review and graduation from dancing. She went for 15 years. EDIT: here is one of her in her cap and gown before we left to go to graduation. Even in that funky hat she it a cutie. Congrats Miss Holly!! :) Click on an image for a bigger view. Talk soon ~kimi~

Hi Everyone!!! yep... we have crossed over the 200 subscriber mark. yippee!! I am still working on the "thank you freebies" but I wanted to give you a sneak peak of where I am so far. Here are 4 example of scrap papers. There should be a few more that fit into this same theme. There is a white grungy frame in the mix also. Click on the image for a bigger view. I have also made a 5x7 photo mat that will hold a 4x6 image. You can also expect the clear tape from the image bellow. Click on the image for a bigger view. I am still working on a few other things so stay tuned. I am trying to get past Holly's graduation, prom and dance review, with some actual work thrown in there somewhere. LOL!! I am going to send out a notification before I post the download. It will be up for a short amount of time. It is for subscribers only!!! It is not to late to subscribe. Hope life it treating you well! ~kimi~

Click on the image for a bigger view. Things are so crazy around here with Holly's prom, dance review, graduation from school, graduation from dance. I am way behind on my Photoshop time. Here is last week's homework assignment done today. And yesterday's homework wasn't posted until today. ARK!!!! I used an image of my niece Sophia. It made me realize that I haven't seen her in a while and I miss her. If you looked at last weeks tut, you will see it was a blue fantasy image. I spent the better part of the morning working on my kreation. Holly came in and took one look at it and said. I don't like it. blah..... So... I deleted most of the layers. If you look close you can see I kept the cloud layer and the moon effect. Turned it into a black and white and made her image larger. I had to re-mask everything but I really like it. As part of the homework I posted a few links to some pretty cool freebie brushes. Take a look at all of the wonderful kreations we had. k