In an earlier post, I showed you the Photoshopped mock-ups I made for the kids to approve their bedroom designs. Here's how my daughter's room turned out:
The carpet was originally blue. We dyed it purple. Thank goodness I only needed to paint half the wall, because that pink took at least 5 coats! That's what I get for buying cheap paint.
We installed the wainscott and trim, painted glossy white. The headboard was painted in the same glossy white. I installed the girly chandelier and swapped out her closet doors for mirrored ones.
She loves her new room and calls this her princess bed. <3
My son's room:
He'd begged for bunkbeds and I couldn't resist. His room has the same wainscot as my daughter's room, but the trim is stained instead of painted. I love how that looks with the deep blue paint.
I apologize for the sparse number of pictures. (Running out of storage in Picasa.) To see more, come visit!
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Friday, February 26, 2010
Stalking Geese
I love the fields of geese near our home here in MD. I kept passing by them without my camera (or even cameraphone!) . I finally remembered to put my camera in the car and realized that I am officially stalking the geese. Here's a pic I took today:
Labels:
Photography
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
Photoshop Actions
I got PSE8 for my birthday and have finally installed some actions. Here's how they work: You find them online and download them into Photoshop. Then they appear in your styles and effects palette. They save a ton of time! For example, say I'm starting with this photo:
I love those baby blues, but the bright red shirt is distracting. I can try "Selective Color" and it runs automatically, creating layers with layer masks, etc. Then I can just paint where I want to see color and get this:
I can also change the color of just the shirt by selecting with the magic wand and desaturating:
They have actions for creating vignettes, retouching portraits, selective color, making pics look antique, etc.
Have fun!
Labels:
Photography
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Prepping photos for framing
I wanted to frame my kids' recent school photos in the 4x6 frames I'd recently bought. Here's the original pic of my son:
The problem was that they weren't the right proportion and I didn't want to crop them. To solve the problem, I stole a page from the digital scrapbooking book. I opened a 4x6 document in Photoshop and covered it with a patterned digital scrapbooking paper. Then, I plopped the photo down on top of it.
I adjusted the saturation and lightness until my (originally green) paper matched the gray background. Then, with a soft brush set at 22% opacity, I erased the background to allow the pattern to show through. Here's the finished result:
The original picture of my daughter:
And the 4x6 version:
Labels:
Decorating,
Photography
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Framed!
For some reason, decorating relieves stress for me. That creates a bit of a conundrum because during this stressful time I'm living in someone else's home! Fortunately, my mother-in-law has been very gracious.
Color Theory: In the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew, everybody painted their living room walls mauve. It is said that mauve relieves insanity. It is a color often used in prisons and hospitals for similar reasons.
To ward off depression during my hubby's deployment, I painted my room (AKA the guest bedroom) bright green. I hung gorgeous white curtains and bought a white duvet cover set that I have plans for....
Then I played musical frames. I started with these:
I bought two 4x6 frames in a similar ornate dark wood. I then added pics of the kids (more on that soon):
Color Theory: In the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew, everybody painted their living room walls mauve. It is said that mauve relieves insanity. It is a color often used in prisons and hospitals for similar reasons.
To ward off depression during my hubby's deployment, I painted my room (AKA the guest bedroom) bright green. I hung gorgeous white curtains and bought a white duvet cover set that I have plans for....
Then I played musical frames. I started with these:
After a quick swap, we have:
I like the way it's turning out. What are you working on?
Labels:
Decorating
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