His look says it all to me. Straight out of the camera, I swear, this has to be one of my best shots of W.W. ever. With few trees at our place, my parents backyard offered up a plethora of leaves to jump and splash around in on the weekend before Thanksgiving.

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I’m late with my photo edits for Dolce.



This looks absolutely nothing like the original.












With fall rapidly approaching in many places I opted for editing out the background and creating my own. Using the magic wand I selected the owl in the center and deleted the leafy background. Adding a couple adjustment levels to bring out the owl a bit more in levels and then using a sharpen action I got it to pop better.



Then I added a brush frame of fall leaves around the outside. Created a new layer and filled it with random coloring and jittering of a leaf brush. Making mutiple layers of this leaf layer I moved it behind the leaf frame selected the frame went back to the background layer inversed the selection and hit delete. That added a bit of leafy look to the frame then I wanted it to be a bit darker so I added a texture too. Thinking the owl looked funny without a tree I inserted a tree branch from another brush preset. I think it came together rather nicely for a bit of fall montage.




I love the umbrella in this second image. I had to edit that out first with the magnetic lasso so I could play with the levels and make it really stand out. Those striped umbrellas remind me so much of rainbows. Thinking about rainbows I edited out the background and added a new texture layer with clouds in it. I also edited out her pink coat and then added several adjustment layers just to the jacket to make the pink pop more. I should have cleaned up more of her hair to make the edit more believable. Playing with all the strands takes too long right now. So this is the short cut version. Check out the original though, it’s quite different.



I have posted links and credit to the several places I found the assortment of brushes, textures, fonts, and tutorials I use.

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Just shy of one year, I returned to the saddle. Yes, my butt may be too big from all those months of not riding. However, the sheer pleasure of leaving the kids with my step daughter saddling up and heading out made me smile all day long.

With the mornings cooling off I sported my new hat, a quarterhorse downward slope, and my new slicker straight from Australia. Sky diver girl should get a kick out of that one. For a custom hat that fits, I do recommend the Colorado Hat Company.

Whipping out the trusty ‘Zine down along the river bank, the husband humored me with some pictures.

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