It’s A Lunch Hour Tutorial & What’s Your Play?

I just had a garden salad for lunch and I washed it down with some water…with regard to my lunch hour, there’s nothing gourmet about it. However, an office-mate was making a lunch run…so I placed an order for a chocolate chip cookie.

As I wait for my cookie to arrive, I decided to play along with my bloggy friend Michelle’s tutorial on iHeartfaces today. Hopefully no one is looking for me:)

Michelle’s site was the one that prompted me to change my own template last summer. I had a difficult time getting it running but that’s not her fault and she certainly supported me, thank you Michelle! Okay, back to the tutorial.

Michelle created such a dreamy and wonderful look to her photo and I had to follow along. There were so many new techniques that I didn’t know and have wondered “How’d they do that?”

Here is the before photo…it’s nice as is but the whole point is to learn something new.

I followed each step and though I have a different version of Photoshop, I was able discern the little differences between the two versions.

Here is the finished product. It’s not exactly like Michelle’s but it’s close enough. It’s the look I am recently hooked on…the dreamy soft look. It’s the way I’ve been feeling lately.

But it’s not the season for soft and dreamy. Rather it’s the spooky, scary season. I don’t always like to be scared so it’s not my favorite time to year truth be known. However, I do try to play along as best I can so I don’t look like a party pooper.

So I decided to edit a photo with my other bloggy photographer friend, Laura at dolcepics. I thought perhaps I can use some of the same techniques to make something scary as well. As it turns out, Laura had the perfect play along photo this week.

This photo is an old building in Montreal. I loved Montreal. I joined the husband there for a week while he was on business. I didn’t want to leave…mais non! They speak nothing but French, it’s wonderful, like France in North America.

Anyway, the photo. I wanted to make this building a scary mansion.

Using just the Adjustment Layers on the layers palette shown on Michelle’s tutorial, I created this. Monstrosity? Anyway, it scares me. I didn’t put a texture on it though one would certainly have been appropriate. The building is a little light and I wanted to do an edge burn…but my cookie is here.

It crazy how the same techniques can create two very different feelings. I love this art called photography. Go to iHeartfaces to follow along yourself. It’s great fun!

Michelle also started a great new photo sharing site called OpenScrapbook. I’m a member, you should be too! And to get to Laura’s Plays, cliquez ici si vous plait.

Thank you ladies, you rock.