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Archive for April, 2009

Apr
08

1st Anniversary!

Posted by DeAnna

I completely missed the fact that my first post was just over a year ago now!  So much has changed since then.  Well, mostly the fact that I’m less than 6 weeks away from having my second child has changed me.  Pregnancy messes with my brain.  I’ve had a total creative block until the last month or so.  I’ve created a few more papers and a couple of elements for my freebie kit I’ve been working on, but it’s not quite done yet.  I have to start working on choosing and editing my photos for the upcoming big crop put on by Photo Express.  It’s just less than 2 weeks away now!  Not a lot of time to prepare anymore!

I’ve been feeling pretty crappy the last couple of days.  Hopefully I’m not coming down with another cold.  We did finally manage to take some pictures of my belly.  I wish we had been better at taking photos each month, but we didn’t do that with Kyle either, so we’re pretty much par for the course!  Here’s some pregnancy photos for you to laugh at!  Kyle is getting so tall!  He’s not even 3 and he’s about 39 or 40 inches tall.  He’s going to tower over me by the time he’s 10 I’m sure.  Of course, since I’m only 5′ 3″, it won’t take much!  My mother’s under 5′, so he’s not far behind her.   :)

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Apr
01

Family photo re-do

Posted by DeAnna

I showed you this family photo in a previous post.   My youngest brother Ryan’s former girlfriend is standing next to the bride.  Ryan and his girlfriend have since broken up and he asked if I could work some magic and remove her from the photo for the album I’ve been working on for Brandon and Eden.  I wasn’t sure I could do it, but I thought I would give it a try.  Here’s the original:

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Here’s the after:

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Not bad, if I do say so myself.  Not perfect though.  I basically created a copy of the original photo on a new layer (ctrl + J), removed the right half of the copy (the top layer), and moved it over so Ryan was closer to Eden (the bride).  On the bottom layer, I removed the left half of the photo from about where Ryan was standing so I didn’t have any overlap at the left edge.  

Then I started erasing Ryan’s ex-girlfriend so that you could see Eden again, using a soft rounded brush.  The detail work was hard since Ryan is turned so sharply, and the left half of his body was covered by his girlfriend. 

I used the colour picker and changed the opacity of the brushes here and there to match the colour of Ryan suit, and using a combination of hard and soft rounded brushes I painted his suit back in.  Considering that I’ve removed an entire person from the photo, I don’t think it looks half bad!

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