Snap It or Scrap It Saturday - Giveaway

I thought I would post all the pages of D's 1st year Baby book. These are just the first page for each month. The page to the right of each of these will have all the fun information about his size and developments. I plan to print the book through Photoworks. I have a gift certificate and am dying to use it. You may notice that I still haven't gotten his 1 year old page done. That's because I still haven't taken his picture yet. I want to set up the white sheet in the kitchen with the late morning light that comes in the window and get some real pictures. I would LOVE to take them outside, because I love the natural settings and the wonderful light, especially since our camera doesn't do well indoors. But there's still 4-6 inches of snow out there!!! UGH!

Today's yummy extra horse devour is.... a GIVEAWAY!!! If you would like a photo book designed for your baby's first year or for any other occasion, leave a comment telling me what the occasion would be. Make sure there is a way for me to contact you. If you do not have your email address on you Blogger profile, please leave your email address in your comment. Unfortunately, this giveaway is only for the design and not for the book printing. Perhaps next year, I can afford to offer that as well. Giveaway closed.

Snap It or Scrap It Saturday

One of the things I love about Photoshop is being able to edit photos. I can take a so-so picture and make it really pop and look way beyond my ability just by adjusting the contrast with the Curves tool and by adjusting the color hues with the Selective Color tool. I decided to go through and find some of my favorite photos and give them a bit of a pop. I hope the color and contrast looks good on here. I edited them in CYMK (printer's colors) mode, because I generally want them to look good printed. So, if they're not looking good here, I might need to go back and edit them in RGB (screen color display) so you can see the difference.






































Now, if only Photoshop had a tool called, "Crumby P&S Indoors Fix"


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Snap It or Scrap It Saturday

Ok, so I didn't actually design this this week. I think it was last week, but I've got company coming tomorrow and a house to clean today. So...... this will have to suffice. :)

Daryn's 11 month layout. I need to take his 1 year picture, so I can finish up his baby book.

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Snap It or Scrap It Saturday

I took about 25 photos of Cherith sitting on the couch yesterday. I loved the the color of her lips and her shirt with the couch and pillows. But what my eye could see was not delivered by my camera. Really, the more I learn about photography, the more I hate our little point and shoot. It's a great point and shoot, but does not deliver the results I want, like an SLR would. All my indoor pictures are always blurry, grainy, or washed out. Anyhow, here's two of the best. One with the flash and one without. They have been majorly doctored in Photoshop to clean up the over exposure and under exposure, brighten the colors, and sharpen them a bit. They are still grainy. I don't know of a way to fix that. And the colors still aren't true to real life.

Snap it or Scrap it Saturday

I am working on completing Daryn's baby book. Here is his 10 month main page.