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Hi everyone.... I stumbled across this new site. They are trying to create a market place kind of like Etsty but for creative items that were made by a mouse. It should be a fun place to find cool and interesting things. It is called "Creative Market" handcrafted, mousemade. New market site where you can sell and buy, fonts, brushes etc, Early members, who join, get some freebies, and if you use this link, I get some credits too :) Click on the link below to join. h ttp://creativemarket.com/udvyJDl If you join... don't forget to click on the freebie tab, and choose some goodies. The freebies are only available until the site goes public. So if you are interested, you would need to sign up soon. =) ~kimi~

Is there anybody out there? Hi guys, yep I am still around!! Life just got in the way of my poor neglected blog. I was looking for a paper to use on our Christmas Cards and couldn't find what I was after, so I made my own. Then thought.... Let's Share!! :-) So for everyone that hasn't given up on me, here you go. Download here kimi_Snow Paper Normal Terms Of Use Apply. You May Not Sell It As Your Own. I miss you all! {hugs} ~kimi~

So everyone has their own interpretation of what ART is. As photographers, we tend to fall into 2 categories. The minimalist. (a person who tends to stay true to his image) For the sake of discussion, we will call the other... the "non" minimalist. :0) Now I will gladly say, I am certainly a "non" minimalist! I wanted to share one of my latest images with you. It is a picture of my daughter Holly. I saw an image by another photographer and wanted to try and capture something close. I love how the image came out. It truly does represent Holly. She is not the smiley happy kid. At 20 she has grown into her own person, she is deep and focused. I used a simple Gradient Map to change the image to black and white. I used the spot healing brush to tidy up her face. I added a texture that had a brownish tone. I duplicated the texture so I had two layers. On the bottom layer I changed the blend mode to softlight. The layer that was above it was left on normal mode an...

Hi Everyone... Yes, I am still here. My creativity is still alive and well! Not long ago, hubby and I snuck off for a weekend alone. I of course was playing with the camera on my iphone on one of our walks. So today I share with you one of the images I took. A perfectly good texture. Taken with my Hipstamatic App. :0) You can download HERE . Enjoy!! One of the things I have been doing lately with my textures is this. Select a midtone color from the texture with your eye dropper tool. Select a soft brush and reduce the opacity of the texture a bit to see your subject underneath. (do this while you are still in normal mode) Paint directly on the texture with the selected color. This will keep the texture tone but get rid of the grungy bits on your focal point. Raise your opacity back up and finish the brushing. Now change your blend mode to soft light. Easy Peazy!! {hugs to everyone} ~kimi~ P. S. I did not include a TOU but you know the drill. Don't sell it as your own.

A couple of wonderful finds that I have come across recently. I am loving it more than I can say... Coffee Shops Velvet Cream Action . I find myself using it on almost every image lately. So easy to tweak to your liking! Dig around on her site. Add her to your Google Reader!! A Must! Another wonderful share is Jessica Drossin's free Autumn texture. I have a friend that loaned me his 200mm macro lens yesterday to play with. Here is one of the first images I have taken with it. I used the Coffee Shop Velvet Cream Action and added Jessica's texture. Run and get them now. And... don't forget to leave them a Thank You! ~kimi~

Hi everyone!!! Yes, I am still alive. LOL!! Don't you just hate it when life gets in the way. I had to take on a second job and my time has been so very limited. Please know... I miss you all. (heart hug) I had to do something for myself. I was starting to feel so very unhappy. I decided it was up to me to find my bliss. I went searching and Jessica was offering a new class. Just what I needed!! sigh... No, I am still not finished with all of the lessons but I had such a great time and learned so very much. Anyway, I was inspired to create a few papers and of course I had to share. So I have for you today... 3 damask papers. Here is a sample. Click here to download. Enjoy! And since my camera also keeps me sane, I have to share of few of my latest images... I promise to check back in soon! ~kimi~

I have had lots of people lately still asking about applying textures to their images. So I give you a video tutorial. =) Now, I went pretty fast because I knew it was going to be a large video, so watch it a couple of times if you get lost. All of the textures came from Shadowhouse Creations They are all free but make sure you leave Jerry a big thank you! If you have any question, leave them in the comment section and I will try to answer them. If you want to learn about running a sketch technique on one of your images, check over at the Photoshop Creative Elements forum. Lots of sketch techniques have been posted there in the past. (check it out) {hugs} ~kimi~