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Its time to SHOW YOUR SKILLS! with Everyday Elements…
Amanda over at Everyday Elements is hosting a Show Your Skills editing ‘giveaway’.  She’s paired up with Isabella LaFrance Photography and is giving a $15 dollar credit to the winner! Good luck to all!
Here’s Amanda’s original:

And here is my play:

I used PS4 to edit.  First I brightened the image a bit, and played up her eyes just a tiny bit.  I added another layer, selected some of the greeny color in the original picture, filled as an overlay, and dropped the opacity way down.  I also added a sun flare layer, and played with some texture.  Hope you like it! Head on down to Everyday Elements, by clicking the button below and have some fun of your own!

Have a beautiful Friday!

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Everyday Elements & Show Your Skills!!

So I have mentioned Amanda from Everyday Elements before… Well, today, she is hosting a “show your skills” editing challenge.  Really, just a fun way to play with a picture and show off your skills…

Here is Amanda’s original.  Its lovely, don’t you agree?

And below, is my edit… I used a few different actions, but played around with the blending modes and opacity…. I tweaked two of my favorite textures and used them in overlay mode.  Another thing I did was copy the background image, dropped the opacity really low, and layered it over the finished product, just to bring back some of the detail in the original picture.  Snazzy, right? Thanks, Amanda for hosting a fun challenge… Hope my edit has done your work justice.

 

Why not head over and join the fun? Amanda is graciously offering a $15 gift card to Love that Shot, winner to be chosen randomly using random.org.

 

go play... its fun!

mmm... Everyday Elements, equals EVERY day love!!

I am always excited when I find someone out there in the world who is as awesome as Amanda from Everyday Elements.  Not only does she create and share some really awesome Photoshop actions, she just seems like an all around every day super cool chick!!

Check out her blog- where you can download some really amazing and near perfection actions... My favorite is New York City... but I love Boston and Hawaii as well!

Lately, I have been complaining about the grain that is added when Facebook compresses my images... I don't like it.... at all!!!... Looking at one of Amanda's posts, she said something about 700 pixels high, and when I asked about it... the very next morning, she whipped up a super awesome Facebook finishing action... that.I.can.not.wait to use!

Here are a few pics with her actions in action...

Hawaii in action

Small curve bump, then New York... imo almost the PERFECT black and white

I just wanted Amanda to know how much I personally appreciate her contribution to my work....I cannot wait to see what's next from this talented and humble lady.