Fantasy Fun

I took a picture of the Delgado kiddos sitting on a statue at the zoo. I cut out the statue and background and created this fantasy setting. Pretty neat, hugh?

11/27/07 - I forgot!

I finished this photo yesterday and completely forgot to post it! Oops.

This is SD's younget nephew, baby Mark, with his parents.

My mom gave me a plaque with this quote by Eleanor Roosevelt many years ago and it still means a lot to me.

Explosion

This explosion was drawn from scratch using various filters and color saturations in photoshop. Pretty neat hugh?

Happy Turkey Day!

Do you remember how exciting the holidays were when you were a kid? I used to love the art projects - remember making turkeys out of potatoes, toothpicks and gum drops? What about painting pinecones? Well, here's my PS version of a turkey made from a hand tracing, feathers and paint! Enjoy.

Have a safe and happy Thanksgiving!

Golf Collage

Today's project: working with layers.
{I took these pics at the Chase/UW golf tournament in 2005.}
Top Layer: Phyllis and Ashley are being silly while practicing at the driving range.
Middle Layer: a bucket of golf balls
Bottom Layer: a view of the hillside and clubhouse

Remembering Dad

If you've visited my page on myspace, then you've seen this collage before. I was cleaning out my email account today (it fills up SO fast) and came across some old notes from my dad...it made me feel a little closer to him. I'm finally getting over my depression and I am able to think about him w/out crying. That is such a blessing because there are so many memories.

This one's for mom!

Feeling a little nostalgic today so I worked on a picture of Mom and I from one of my bridal showers. I'm off to a girls night in with some friends...have a great weekend!

~KJ

Haunted Alamo

I took some pics of the Alamo recently and I’ve been trying to think of a really cool, different way to present them. Today I finally figured it out – Haunted Alamo! I cut out the background from this photo – painted the sky & clouds, changed the color hue & saturation and applied a couple filters until the Alamo looked spooky enough. Then I painted some dirt and other grungy texture on the building to make it look older, added the ghosts and then the lightening bolts. If you can’t see all the details, click on the picture to open a larger version.
~KJ

Playing with Texture

I’ve been playing with texture lately so this weekend I took a lot of photos to see if I could create my own “grunge” affects in PS. I took pictures of cracked asphalt, dirty sidewalks, rocks, crumpled paper and even a big pile of dirt! I used the texture photos to create this design with pics from my trip to Seattle.
~KJ

Learning to do photo "touchups"

I am learning so much about Photoshop - this software continues to amaze me. Look at this before and after photo! I made all these touchups with Photoshop. Now I know first hand why the people in magazines look so great. ;o)

Have a great weekend.

`KJ

Trying out Digiscrap

A couple of my friends are into digiscraping and I’ve been reading a lot about it lately on their blogs. Today I completed a couple of tutorials online and downloaded some freebies (thanks to KB and HM) from “scrapyourartout.wordpress dotcom”. This is a great way to perfect my Photoshop skills! Here’s my first page. These photos are of a friend from work who shared her personal experience with United Way during our giving campaign. The photos really touched my heart!

Worn Photo

Here's another creation that came from a PS tutorial I did online. This started out as a black & white photo of a beautiful headstone. I changed the color, added some scratches to make it look old and then added the decorative swirls around the edges...pretty cool hugh?

Garth Dethrones Elvis!

I read today that Garth Brooks dethroned Elvis as the best selling solo artist of all time. So, this one is for all us Garth fans! Long live the King of Country! ;o)

~KJ

Fall Back This Weekend

The longest weekend of the year is finally here and we get to sleep an hour later! In honor of the end of 2007 daylight saving time, here's a pretty fall design! Don't forget to set your clocks back 1 hour on Saturday night before you go to bed.

Have a good weekend.

~KJ

Butterflies in a small red orb

Today's post is from a PS tutorial I did online. It's not a design of my own, but I am proud of it because it's neat looking. This is supposed to be an animated .gif file but I don't think the animation will work on this site. Oh well, it's still pretty. Enjoy!