Monday, August 24, 2009

Beast of a Photo Shoot :)

I had a serious makeup photo shoot this weekend. Not that the pictures turned out that great, but I just don't have anything else to post. :) You can read the corresponding fall makeup article here if you're interested. I mostly edited the photographs in Microsoft Office Picture Manager and I created the model "sketches" in GIMP.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Look I'm Catherine Part II

You recall Catherine, the home decor extraordinaire. :) She's in the works for a good character quotation from a United States historical figure. So, as the meddler that I am, I found a couple of options and put them on a background I made. Assembled in PowerPoint, the word arts use the the free font Requiem for both the text and the underline.

Blue Paper Revisited

I previously made and showed some of these beginning blue pages, but I've added some embelleishments to the kit so I'll go ahead and post the collection. :)

Created in GIMP, the free version of Adobe Photoshop.

Another Digital Scrapbooking Kit


Details: Created in GIMP.

Fall Photo Shoot

Edited in Microsoft Office Picture Manager. I took this to go with a Fall Crafts for Kids piece.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

More Landscapes

Original photographs courtesy of ChrisChris. Edited in GIMP. My results were nothing special, but ChrisChris gets antsy if I don't post my playing around. Haha. :)


I hesitate to post this, since it's really weird (even for me). But to prove I played with more than one pic . . . :)

Monday, August 10, 2009

More Makeup Photo Shoots :)

To go along with new articles about Mineral Makeup Foundations and Homecoming Makeup Tips (not yet posted), I decided I needed some new makeup pictures. I, of course, did some editing afterwards in GIMP, Microsoft Office Picture Manager, and PowerPoint.


LunaPic, LunaPic, it's a Favorite Dish! :)


I've previously informally written about this great site, but here's a full writeup if you're interested in learning more about the cool and free online photo editor LunaPic.


"LunaPic is my all-time favorite online photo editor. The website is easy to use and the results are astounding. For fun and free picture editing capabilities online, try LunaPic.com."

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Fun, Free Dingbat Fonts!



"Great and easy to use in digital scrapbooking and other projects, dingbat fonts are full of premade-shapes and graphics that can be inserted just like text and customized to any size. Here are some nice, free alternatives to clipart."


Saturday, August 1, 2009

I Made a Button!

Okay, so maybe it's not that cool. But I've never made a digital button before. :)


And I even put "Think" on it using the free font Jay Cons from 1001Fonts.com.


The creator of Jay Cons originally labeled his font Japanese, and an uproar apparently ensued over if it was really Chinese. Hehe. I love people. :) I'm too sleepy now, but maybe someday I'll explain the new GIMP tools I learned to do this: shrink and grow.