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Just in time for mother's day – photo jewelry

Mar 28, 2008

I’ve been wanting to offer something like this for a while and am thrilled to have finally found a vendor I trust that has a fast turn-around: me.

This particular bracelet (“mother of pearl”) is made from freshwater pearls with a sterling silver toggle clasp and sterling silver two-sided frame. There is an opening at the top of the frame allowing you to change out the photos yourself.

I’ll be adding them to our shopping cart shortly and previous customers are welcome to order them using images from past sessions. If you’re nowhere near Colorado Springs but have a photo you’d like to use, you’ll also be able to order them. Bracelets are $50 plus tax and shipping.

photo jewelry bracelet

(The photo I picked for my bracelet is an old sentimental favorite–Nic and Will on Will’s very first day taken by me while I was still laying on the delivery table.)

Posted in Crafts, News, Products

an unusual photo

Mar 27, 2008

Normally a leftie, on Easter I caught Will in the act of drawing with his right hand.

toddler portrait drawing

Posted in Toddler Photographer

Photoshop Friday…on a Thursday

Mar 27, 2008

Adobe launched their “Photoshop Express“–a free web-based photo editing program, and I thought it warranted a little Photoshop Friday even though it’s a day early. ;)

If you already own photoshop, the editing portion is nothing to intrigue you, but it does offer 2 gigs of free storage and a flash slideshow, so you can share photos with family and friends online without resizing for email. That part is neat (though I would never be wooed away from my precious smugmug).

At first glance, it seems to me like a beefed up version of flickr…and hopefully Adobe will do a better job protecting people from the weirdos than flickr has.

You can’t edit RAW files in it, but if you don’t have Photoshop or Elements or Lightroom, it would be very useful to have a free online area to edit your photos (adjust white balance or exposure, crop, resize, do some basic cloning/healing, add fill light, easy color pop and auto correct, etc)

There are a ton of people checking it out right now, so it’s running a little slowly (or at least I hope that’s the reason), but I wanted to be sure to sign in today and snap up a good username before the good ones were gone and I ended up having to add three silent “g”s to my name.  (I feel a burning need to register for every new networking site even if I don’t have immediate plans to use it, because should I ever want to jump on the bandwagon, I want a good username.)

Scott Kelby has some training videos for Photoshop Express that will guide you through the process if you need a little assistance learning the ropes.

Posted in Photoshop Tips

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