kimi kreations

Click on the image for a bigger view. One of the blogs I follow on my Goggle reader is Dolcepics . Every week she post an image for you to process as you like and then post a link back to her blog. It has become one of those things that you think about but never follow through. Well this week my friend Sunny posted her play and it was such a striking image that it finally was the push I needed. So the above image is my play. If you go to Dolce's site you can follow the links to the other plays or find the original image to play along. Also check out kimi's Kreative homework this week. What a fun lesson! happy Wednesday ~kimi~

Click on the image for a bigger view. My current obsession is Dandelions. I have been searching high and low for this pesky little weed. It seems they grow everywhere but near me. Riding in my car I came across my first one of the season in a ditch on the way to a shoot. So of course I turn around, park in a strangers driveway and run across the busy street to pick it out of a ditch. On of the girls were nice enough to get out of the car with me. (in case I got myself run over or run off) So Nicole was holding the flower while I shot a couple of pics. it was getting dark so I had her standing so we had some light between the trees. Thanks Nicole! For a spur of the moment image, I just love how this came out! It was processed in LightRoom with Matt's 300 strong preset. If you have never checked out Matt's LightRoom Killer tips it is a wonderful resource. Do you know everything you need or want to know about the "type tool"? This week on kimi's Kreative homework I ...

Click on the image for a bigger view. I was going to open the front door this morning to walk the dog. On the walk way I saw these two snails. So of course I yelled... Holly come and get the dog there are two snail fighting and I want to get my camera. She takes one look out the door and goes um Mom, I don't think that is fighting! Now it took the 18 year old to explain to me what the heck was going on on my own front walk. :) So I am laying on the walkway getting yucky slugs on my sweatshirt and my husband opens the door laughing. He says; you better get up, the neighbors are going to think I threw you out. Such support. (wink) So the top picture are the snails doing it. (after it was explained to me) The bottom picture is after they parted ways. I am assuming the one that went into his shell is the man snail. As it looked like he promptly fell asleep. LOL!! ahhhh... young snails in love. Click on the image for a bigger view. Now because I made you look at snail how about a freebi...

It is all over the forums and made 60 minutes the other night. Rumors of a virus or worm that is already on your computer set to active on April fools day. Now we never know if a rumor is just that a rumor but I am leaving a post today to remind you to always be prepared. Go to Microsoft and do your updates. Before you go to bed tonight. Update your virus software and run a scan on your computer. Think about installing and using Firefox instead of Internet Explorer. Do a back up tonight also. Shoot set a restore point on your system. I'm not sure if that will help but it won't hurt anything. :) If you have no virus software running. Do a search for AVG free. Make sure that is exactly what you are downloading and not some other pop-up that showed up. Before downloading anything. Do a Goggle search and make sure it is legit!!! Holly had a worm attach her system called Anti Virus 2009. We had to do a complete system reinstall. So do your research before you just start clicking a...

Click on the image for a bigger view. I am in love with this image of Holly. :) My baby graduating from High School this year. Where did the time go? I know... she looks serious and almost sad but this is the true Holly. She is deep and serious and walks around with wrinkles on her forehead most of the time. This image truly captures her essence. Here is a tip I did on this image. I wanted to have the background darker so when you looked at the image you would be drawn to her face. To try and work with a layer mask would have been to difficult with all of her fly away hair. So I used the lasso tool. I drew a selection about her hair and body. Gave it a nice size feather, Inversed my selection to affect just the outer edges. Ctrl, Shift, I is the invert shortcut. Hit Ctrl J to put my selection on it's own layer and changed the blend mode to multiply. I didn't think the effect was dark enough so I used Ctrl J and made second copy and lower the opacity of the second layer a bit. I...

Click on the image for a bigger view. I'm doing my "Happy Birthday Dance"! So I have a present for all of my subscribers. :) A 5x7 frame in a png format. You get the background and the frame together with a piece of tape across the top. I have been working on my clear tape. Still not as good as I would like but it is getting there. You just add your image behind it and resize. If you are a newbie... Ctrl T to resize. Send to print as a 5x7 and you have a pretty cool image. This is Simone. Isn't she a pretty girl!! Everyone say.... hi Simone. :) your present will stay up just for today, so grab it while you can. sorry, time is up. if you show up here and you missed out... Subscribe!! Hope your day is good enough to have your own happy dance! hugs & kisses ~kimi~

Click on the image for a bigger view. Here is your "Thank You for Voting freebie". Now did you vote? Don't you dare take your freebie until you go and give our little Grace a vote. I will know.... I will hunt you down. ;) So, I made a nice grungy damask overlay last night to give out as a thank you. When I got up this morning, I thought I would throw together a paper so you could see what it looked like. I ended up with four different versions. So in the folder you will find the overlay and 3 of the different paper versions. I will let you decide which one you like the best. :) I took some water and froze it a while back for a texture. The white dots you see are from the ice crystals. Also an image from one of the leaves off of the Magnolia tree that lives at Grace's house. It seemed to fit. Thanks again for voting. Hope you enjoy the freebies. Now go back and vote one more time!! sorry, time is up. love to all ~kimi~ I will leave the link up for 24 hours.