Green Chair

Before

After

Even though I’ve had my Samsung GX 1-L and Photoshop Elements (PSE) for over a year now, I’m really just beginning to figure out how to use them together to get great photos. Not that I think this is a particularly great photo, but when compared with the before, I think it looks 100% better. The thing I like most about both my camera and PSE is how easy it is to use them. I do have a photography class in manual, 35-mm format under my belt and have played around with PSE’s bigger brother, Photoshop CS, so I appreciate how simple it is to find a subject, take a shot, upload it to PSE and then play around with the layers. All I had to do with the photo above was duplicate the layer, do some creative cropping, change the layer to Color Burn and voila! What was a very ho-hum shot of an interesting chair now pops! I think this would make a neat postcard or even look cool framed in a black frame with white matting. My goal has always been to use my photography as art in our home. Maybe I’m starting to get there.

I made this great ziti recipe for dinner tonight. Since we have church in the morning and then Matthew jets off to work afterwards, I like to make something big on Saturday night that he can easily heat up for a quick but filling lunch. I didn’t add enough sauce, so it’s more like an Italian mac and cheese. I used cheddar since I didn’t have mozzarella on hand, which made it a little drier due to the water content of cheddar being lower than mozzarella. I also added hamburger sauteed with onion. My hunka-hunka burning husband can’t have a dish without meat in it!

Have any of you been to I Can Has Cheezburger? I’m probably the last person on earth to discover this website, but I have to share it. It’s hilarious! I’ve also been getting a good laugh at the new blog Photoshop Disasters. Very funny!

Off to my ritual of watching Jane Austen adaptations and crafting. Good night!