Quilting and other Things

Back to elements 9 classes at LVS   This class is about selections.  I used these two photos from the Butterfly conservatory near Guelph.  They are both of Owl  Blue Morpho Butterflies which have the most beautiful blue on the inside of their wings but its very difficult to see when they land as they immediately fold their wings together.  The nursery at this conservatory didn't have glass so I was able to get a reasonably clear photo of a newly hatched Blue Morpho Butterfly on the nursery floor with its wings open. First was to select the butterfly resting using the Magic Extractor. It took a little to clean up the edges Next was to make a snapshot composite  I decided the first selection should be added to this exercise using the copy and paste instructions and then redoing the steps to add a second snapshot In doing the initial selection in the lesson with the brush and the rose photo I ended up with a number of pink lines showing throug...

The sign and two images are from the ROMs Egypt collection. This is the photo the tools came from.  The photo the head comes from is rather shaky I haven't added it here.

This little hedgehog container is from the Royal Ontario Museum. It is one of a pair and is from 800-700 BC. I used Colour and the picker to choose a colour for one of the vignette backgrounds instead of black. This butterfly was on a brightly coloured wall in a butterfly garden at the Museum of Natural History. Butterfly gardens are so fun although my sister's camera didn't like the humidity in this one.

Rose with carved effect. One of the squirrels that lives in the complex was playing on my bbq, hose and in the garden near the end of Christmas. This picture is snapped very quickly through the window. I was trying not to move very much as the squirrels are jumpy. The correction is the Auto Smartfix. I tried a number of corrections and the smartfix seemed to do a reasonably good job. The cage and life ring were floating at the edge of the Thames. I wanted to get remove the people in the bottom right but keep the pier as well as remove the little thing under the pier in the top right. The cage and ring were protected so that they didn't get smaller. I did go back and play with the OOB edit. WOW. That is so much easier. This is my sister during our walk at Hadrians Wall last fall.

This is the provided photo with the Sepia action applied. This photo is from a conservation area display. They had a long house setup. I used the Lighten and Darken guided edit to retrieve a bit of the details -- mostly in the log in the background.

Spinning Ball Rolling Ball Other pictures from this class are here

So yesterday was the reveal at Hobby Horse for this years $10 quilt classes. I was a bit late getting there so missed getting photos of some of the quilts. Elaine was taking photos, so hopefully she'll post some too. The quilts are here or you should be able to watch this slide show. When I got home yesterday, I got busy right away and download the photos from the camera. But then got side tracked by this weeks layer's class lesson. (Sorry Mom) Its about making out of bounds (OOB) photos. The ones where things seem to be coming out of the pictures. This is as far as I got with the one of the donkeys at Carisbrooke Castle. They were being lead around the ring and the announcer was telling us about the donkey. This one got hold of his lead and wasn't going any where.

I used all three healing and cloning tools to remove the person and vehicle from this photo before after These three photos are from last fall when Dad was building the new deck. At this stage in the process the chipmunk lost his bolt hole.

Cropping From a ski lesson last year in Lake Louise Before After (Using Grid) Cookie Cutter With Mom at Niagara Falls Easter 2008 Before After Filters From the Train window near Washago Before Filter 80 Colour Curve Black & White From Niagara Easter 2008 Before After Skin Tone and Sharpen with Adjust Sharpness My sister and I with Grandparents (from a scanned photo) Before Skin Sharp

I used the colour of one of the pink fishes to sign this photo from the London Zoo. Playing with a photo of Birdie bear sitting in the fall leaves

Played with the sunrise lesson. The background is the orange gradient with a radial gradient applied behind the dot of the i. I tried the text horizontally and vertically but it caught the light better in the blending for the grunge text when it moved diagonally.

Today I went for a walk with my little camera in my pocket. Saw something in the top of the tree across the street. This evening I played with enlarging the area with the bird. Went back to the snapshot lesson and cut out the area with the bird and enlarged it. Then cut selected just the bird and enlarged him. Playing more with lesson 7, I started my drawing my fist with the tablet pen. Then added a selection of a drawing I'd done with paper and pencil. Finally I tried adding a fill layer to my hand but it doesn't fill in for some reason.