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JessicaSpraque.com is offering a free photo editing class. Registration ends today. Here is what she will be teaching... "Curious how to use the digital goodies you’ve collected? Or how about creating scuffy, worn edges or rounded corners on your photos? Dying to know to add swirly borders to your pictures like you see in magazines and advertisements? I'll show you how easy it is to add beautiful accents to enhance your digital photos, as well as how to add special photography effects using Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. In this brand-new class, Jessica will show you dozens of awesome techniques you can use to add effects to your photos, including: * Brushes * Frames * Masks * Textures * Blending modes * Filters * and more! You will love learning how to add beautiful frames, brushes, and edges to your photos, and giving them specific looks: dreamy, vintage, cross-processed, soft light, and LOTS MORE. You're in for the educational experience that only JessicaSprague.com ...

My daughter Kristen and her boyfriend Dustin with 3 Ghostbones textures added. :-) OMG.... I swear I almost peed in my pants!! Ghostbones has resurfaced as Skeletal Mess on Flicker. Along with his amazing images he is still offering all of his fantastic textures for free. You will find the links to his textures on his site. His first set has 102 textures. So RUN don't walk and download them NOW! And this part is very important.... Leave him some love and thank you's! When you add one of the textures over your image, try overlay and softlight. Those are the blend modes I tend to get the best effects with. Remember to lower your opacity to taste. To keep your texture color over a face but not have the texture effect; here is a trick for you. Take your lasso tool and draw a selection around the face area. Give it a good feather, then go to blur, gas blur and magically your color stays in tact but you loose the grunginess on the face area. I have loads and loads of textures. Plent...

Like all the TV shows, I run re-runs of some of our favorite homework assignments during the summer. This week we followed a vintage look tutorial by Jessica Bell. I used a picture of Miss Maddie for my homework image. kimi's Kreative homework #64 Hope you go over and give it a try... ~kimi~

Thank you for being a friend! Here are your promised thank you freebies. We have passed 200 subscribers. :) I started this blog not having a clue what I was doing. ARK! I have to thank the girls at JessicaSpraque.com for the push. If you like scrapbooking, this is the place to go. I have to also give a shout out to my internet family at Photoshop Creative Elements . If you ever have a Photoshop or Elements question, stop by. They have the answer! You can also find kimi's Kreative homework posted there every Tuesday. Everyone is welcome. If you are new to Elements and feeling a little lost, check out Photoshop Elements Technique . The place where I got my start. So many times I went looking for Wendy because I knew she had all of the answers. Thank You Wendy! Last but certainly not least. I encourage you to become a Phaunt. I have learned soooo much there. I am also one of the moderators in the Photoshop section. The Phaunt forum.com The Phaunt Action Blog I can't say enough ...

This week on kimi's Kreative homework #63 we work a sketch technique provided by our friend Anita. Here is one of my plays. Here are the directions: Ctrl J to copy. Ctrl+Shift+U to remove color. Ctrl J to copy the black and white layer. On this layer Ctrl I to invert. Change the blend mode on inverted layer to Color Dodge. Go to Filter, Other, Minimum. I used 4 pixels or so. Now go back to original layer( the one with color). Ctrl J to copy. Drag that layer to the top and reduce the opacity. Merge the top three layers so you're left with two layers. Ctrl J to copy. Go to Filter, Artistic, Poster Edges. Play with the opacity until you get something you like. Do check out the homework thread for images and extra tidbits that people have added. Give it a try, post an image on your blog and add a link in the comment thread. :-) Happy Tuesday! ~kimi~

A very simple method of making your image work in a scrap page or flipping it to coordinate in a photo book, is to rotate the image. I have to admit... I rotate all of the time. Not just images but paper, overlay, frames, etc. I use this to my advantage, to make it work. If you have never rotated? Well my friend, it is time to give it a try. In Photoshop CS3 you can Crtl T to get your free-transform box, right click and all of you options are there. You can also go to, Image, rotate canvas. In Elements you will need to go to Image, rotate. There you can choose to rotate your entire canvas or just an individual layer. So I had the pleasure of watching Grace for a few hours yesterday while her parents went out to supper. This is one of the images I took of her in their pool. She is such a cutie!! :) I need an image that has the theme "summertime" for our next camera club meeting. I may use this one. So I flipped it to see what it looked like if she was not upside down. Normally...

The Terms Of Use state: YOU MAY NOT offer any of my designs on any web page for download or send them through an internet list or include them in any des ign /graphic collection on the internet or otherwise. Let's talk about using a photo mask. The coolest thing about this is, you can resize it any size you want. Start at the bottom. You will have your background paper. I have included the one shown. Then you will have your mask layer. (also included) Top will be your image. You will need to group your image to your mask. This can be done a number of ways. Let's talk about a couple. You can highlight your top image layer. Go to layer, create clipping mask. In Elements, it is Layer, group with previous. Or you can hold down your Alt key and click on the line separating the two layer and it will clip it together for you. Make your image the size you want it to be. Now go down and highlight the mask layer. Use Ctrl T to free- transfom. You can rotate it, you can make it wide...

Hi guys... I think I have fixed the problem. While searching for the answer there were quite a few people out there having the same issue. So I am going to post my final code with the hope that this will show in the future to help someone else. My image was uploaded to photobucket. The "direct link" was the code copied and pasted. I had removed the word $bgcolor and I had the word repeat at the end. Once I removed repeat and put $bgcolor back. Yipee!! it now works on both. If you are reading this because you have the same problem. Here is what my current code looks like: body { background:$bgcolor url(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss196/KimiBoustany/blogheader3rdtry72dpi.jpg); margin:0; color:$textcolor; font:x-small Georgia Serif; font-size/* */:/**/small; font-size: /**/small; text-align: center; }

These freebies are made and given out to my subsribers only!! The Terms Of Use state: YOU MAT NOT offer any of my designs on any web page for download or send them through an internet list or include them in any des ign /graphic collection on the internet or otherwise. If you are a freebie share site. Please read the above Terms Of Use . If you do not see a black background... follow the directions bellow! Tomorrow I will start giving some of the freebies away. I will start with the photo mask below and I will post directions on how to use it. So make sure you check back early. This is why I need you to follow the directions below for clearing out your browser cache. I need you to be able to read the directions. =) This is my husband's niece and her newly acquired husband. I did not take this image, just adjusted some of the processing at her request. Here is Sharon and Vaughan.... oh shucks, I spelled his name wrong. (sorry Vaughan) With my new blog set-up. Some people are not...