Lesson 2 - Using Brushes As Stamps

This was a really cool lesson. It was about using brushes in Photoshop and how you can use them as stamps on your photos. I love this technique. It makes the possibilities endless for changing up your pictures and adding details, dates, or whatever you want. I am learning so much and would recommend this class to anybody. Best of all, it's free! I don't use Photoshop that much, especially not to change my pictures like this, but I think that's about to change. I also changed the saturation in the photo to make it a little softer. That was actually Lesson 3. I just kind of combined both lessons and started playing with this photo. The grunge frame was a free download from Jessica's site that I added. I just love the way it turned out.

Free Photo Editing Class

I got my first lesson today from a free photo editing class I'm taking over at Jessica Sprague's website. Our first lesson was about creating frames and using word art in Photoshop. It was pretty easy to figure out and she had awesome videos that showed you step by step what to do. I love when things are that easy to figure out. It makes me want to continue to learn. This probably wasn't the best photo, but it was one of my recent shots of my favorite guy at Disney. I can't wait for Lesson 2. I will post it too!

My New Addiction.....Vinyl!

I absolutely love cutting vinyl on the Cricut. I have been obsessed with it the past few weeks, monogramming everything. I sold my little bug a while back in hopes of getting an Expression later on. Well, that hasn't happened yet, but my friend Kristi bought one and hadn't used it yet. I told her about the SCAL program that she could use with it instead of buying all the different cartridges. I borrowed her Expression and loaded her SCAL on my laptop and started playing so I could figure it out first and then show her how to use it. SCAL is the most amazing program. It can cut any font and cut dingbats and any SVG file. I haven't really played much with Inkscape to create my own files yet, but there are so many generous and talented people out there that are sharing the files they created. If you haven't purchased your SCAL program, you can click here: http://www.craftedge.com/ Of course, now there is SCAL2, which makes some things a little easier from what I'm reading. Not quite ready to deal with that yet.