Picnik is Closing!!

The ever-awesome Picnik is closing down to allow it's services to be taken over by Google! So, until it's official closing on April 19, 2012, it's offering all of their premium effects for images for FREE! Get it while you can! Who knows what Google will do to it!

I did Chelsea's senior pictures last Friday. And, out of boredom, I decided to make her a Facebook cover picture if she chooses to use it :) Then, I got a little crazy with Picnik, hehe. So now, she has lots to choose from! And you can see a couple of the cool things that Picnik will let you do :D

Original

Cross Process

Fancy Blur

Focused Blur

Panography

Facebook Covers available for download here just please make sure you post that you used them ^_^

New Lens!! Eep!!

I can not put down my new 10-22mm for my Canon!! It is an absolute beauty and takes outstanding pictures! Definitely worth the money I put down.

I haven't been able to use it in an actual shoot, but I have been playing with it with my family and just a little here and there on my own.

First, it was on people... my sister Jessie on the left...

We were having fun making certain body parts huge :3 As well as making my roommate, Jason (on the right), look even taller than he already is! He's kind of a giant...

Then my sister wanted to give it a whirl... so I did my creeper crawl!

When I took Jessie home, our parents surprised us with a trip to Dairy Queen :3

Om Nom Nom!!!!

Dad's crazy truck!

As you can see, i've been having way too much fun with it ^_^ ! Even the next day at breakfast!!

Jessie and Dad

After work, I got to play around in Downtown Stuart... I'm not really used to shooting buildings and things other than people... but it way fun ^_^

I was seriously like... 15ft. away from this building O:

And then some more from the day...

Just too much fun ^_^

Photography Display Template using Photoshop

This is something i've been wanting to do for a while and after the shoot with Jenna the other day... I knew I couldn't procrastinate on learning this any longer. I should mention that every time Jenna visits I get a nice filling of inspiration ;) And here was the outcome:

If you have Photoshop, this is really a piece of cake once you get the hang of it! What this actually is, is a template that you make and you can drop the pictures in to make multiple images like the one above. You can just change the pictures easily any time you want to make a new one. I plan on playing around with it a lot more, but as for now, I used the same shapes that were used in the tutorial. I did say tutorial... so that means you can learn too ;) And what's even better is it is shown through a video! I always find them to be easier then written tutorials. Anyways, enough rambling! Try for yourself! :)

Making templates for photos in Photoshop