I Heart Faces---Water

This weeks challenge at I Heart Faces is all ab0ut Water...and faces. This is my entry. This was the first time we went t0 the beach since we've been back t0 FL. I l0ve the l00k between Hailey and her Uncle Timmy. They are smitten with each 0ther... and it makes my heart smile.

Head 0n 0ver t0 I Heart Faces t0 check 0ut m0re great water sh0ts.

0h~~~{ zach leaked milk 0n my keybard s0 I have t0 substitute zer0's f0r my 0000's L0L}

I Heart Faces--Yellow

This weeks theme over at I Heart Faces is Yellow!!!!

I just took this picture yesterday, of Zach and Hailey when we went on a walk around post. This street is so beautiful! It's lined with trees the cover the road{on both sides} like an umbrella. My pretty girl just happens to have on a yellow dress and matching hair accessories! Yay! Anyway, head on over {here} and check out some sunny, cheerful, yellow pictures! I am!

I Heart Faces--Fix It Friday

                             Before                                          After

                                                             

What a cuuute photo! I personally left the red around her mouth becuase it shows she actually eating {and loving} the lollipop!!

Anyways---heres a step by step of how I got my edit:

1. File>Open As> Camera Raw>Open Image

2.Exposure set to-0.05

    Blacks, 4

   Brightness, +1

   Contrast, +6

   Clarity, +9

3. Open Image in PSE 8

4. Run Coffeeshop's Sunny Pop Action {made no changes}

5.  Merge

6. Run Coffeeshop's baby Powder Room action

     *Smooth Skin layer-used soft, white 65 px brush and smoothed skin on face. Set Opacity to 80%

       *Lighten Skin Layer-lightened skin under eyes. Set opacity to 30 %

       *Eye define layer- define eyes and lollipop

7. Merge

8. Zoom in {100%} on eyes. Grab lasso tool and select the brown part of the eyes.

9. Layer> New Adjustment layer> Brightness/contrast

     * Brightness, 90

      * Contrast, -50

10. Merge

11.Zoom out to 50%

12. Run Paint the Moon's Vanilla Pop Action

13. Merge

14. Enhance>Unsharp Mask

     * Amount,98%

      * Radius, 6.1 pixels

      * Threshold, 147 levels.

15. SAVE!

Hope you enjoyed the process! I must admit I LOVE PSE!!!!

Thanks for stopping by and head on over to I Heart Faces to check out some more takes on this great photo!

I Heart Faces---Flowers

This week over at I Heart Faces, the photo challenge is May Flowers. It is a non competition week, which is just fine with me! Im looking forward to seeing all the pretty flower entries. I love flowers!

Here's a few of my favorites! Enjoy and thanks for stopping by!

I Heart Faces--Soft & Sweet

One again, its I Heart Faces time again!! This challenge is called Soft & Sweet. Things that you consider soft, cuddly...you get the point. Well...........doesn't this

fit the description!?!?!?! Who doesn't love soft and cuddly baby rolls?!?!

Head on over to I Heart faces and get ready to get soft! :)

I Heart Faces---Pets

I Heart Faces theme this week is Pets,but it is not limited to only pets,but any animal. Everyone has dogs and cats and fish...I wanted something different.....

Introducing Hopper. He was our "Pet for a Day" We went on a lovely nature walk and Mikey found this little fella and scooped him up! I love this picture. It makes me smile!

Head on over to I Heart Faces to check out more Pets.

I Heart Faces--Shadows

                                  Head over to I Heart Faces and see which one is your favorite!!!

I Heart Faces:Head, Shoulders, Knees or Toes... Anything BUT Faces!

I LOVE the anything but a face theme this week over at I Heart Faces!!!
Bath times for the Pretty Princess is always a fun time.....she loves splashing and dunking her hair in the water and singing. I twisted up her pretty hair and had to run and get my camera.

Be sure to head on over to I Heart Faces and check out the sure to be amazing entries!!

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I Heart Faces--Heart{s}

So, it's been way to long since I entered in an I Heart Faces challenge. I have a great excuse reason though. My computer's hard drive crashed so we had to get a new one. I borrowed a friends computer and wasn't going to install my PSE on hers.....

Anyways, now that I have my puter back, I am going to make IHF's challenges a regular thang again.

This week's theme is Heart or Hearts. As soon as I saw this picture of Hailey, I knew I had to figure out how to make her heart shaped tooth pop out!

What do you think??


And YES, that is her actual tooth shape! Look through all of her pictures and you will see I am telling the truth! The light red is just to highlight it!!!!

Anyways, head on over to I Heart Faces and join in on the F-U-N!!!

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I Heart Faces- Self Portrait

So it's been forever since I've done an I Heart Faces challenge. I was browsing blogs and figured I'd check out what the upcoming challenge was. Self-Portrait. Now that I can do! I love this picture of me. I love the angle and the fact that it shows off my freckles and my eyelashes and my wedding rings.( oh okay and my laugh line too!) Hey, this is suppose to be what I really look like, right?!?!?!

Anyways, head on over to I Heart Faces to check out more sure to be amazing entries!!!

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I Heart Faces--Chalk

AHHH Gotta love summer days and chalk pictures! Here is Zachary with his friend Dylan ( who happens to be our downstairs neighbor) Bunch of goof balls if you ask me!

I Heart Faces---Smirk

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I Heart faces---Fix It Friday

Original

 Black & White Edit

 Vanilla Pop

How I Got My Edit.....(for the B&W one)

1. Open in Raw.
Adjust recovery to 100
Fill light to 20
contrast to 10
clarity to 10
vibrance to 10

2. Open Image in PSE 8
3. Run Lemon & Honey Action from Paint the Moon Photography
4. Flatten
5.Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Levels
Slide top black slider to 9.

6.Run Pioneer Woman Define Sharp
7.Grab Quick Select Tool and outline girl
8. Select>Inverse
9.Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Brightness/Contrast
Brightness-neg 25
Contrast- +15

10. Flatten
11. Run Pioneer Woman Seventies Action
12. Flatten
13. Run PW B&W Beauty Action
14. Flatten
15. Run PW Define Sharp Action
16. Flatten
17. Coffeeshop Baby Powder Room Action
"Eye Define Layer" define dress, hair and eyes.
18. Flatten.

(To get my Vanilla Pop photo edit, I followed the same steps above and then ran the Vanilla Pop Action from Paint the Moon Photography.)

Head on over to I Heart Faces to check out more fixes!


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I Heart Faces---Sunglasses

Its that time again. I Heart Faces Photo Challenge time, that is!!! This weeks theme is sunglasses. LOVE this shot. Head on over to I Heart Faces to see more entries!

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I Heart faces---Fix It Friday

Original

 My Edit

How I Got My Edit:
1.Opened In Camera Raw
2. Set:
   recovery to +77
   Fill Light to +35
   Contrast to +25
   Clarity to +25
3.Open Image in PSE 8
4.Layer>Duplicate Layer
5. Grab healing brush tool & healed bump over eye. Dropped opacity to 80%
6.Layer>Duplicate Layer
7. Grabbed clone stamp and cloned out red speck on the tip of nose,and the crumbs on his sleeve and in his nose.
8.Layer>Flatten
9. Run Coffeeshop Babypowder Room Action
   "smooth skin" layer--used white, soft brsuh to smooth skin on face
   "lighten skin" layer- white,soft brush and lightened skin under both eyes.
   "eye define" layer-white,soft brush to define both eyes
   "bright eyes" layer- white,soft brush  and whitened whites in both eyes.
10. Layer> Flatten
11. Run Lemon and Honey Action by Paint the Moon
12. Layer> Flatten
13. Run Pioneer Womans Seventies Action
14.. Run Coffeeshop Babypowder Room Action again and on the "define eyes" layer, use soft whiote brush, defined eyes.
15. Layer>Flatten and save!



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I Heart Faces---Purple

These challenges over at I Heart Faces just keep sneaking up on me! Every Sunday, I post my photo, but I feel like I just finished the last photo challenge for I Heart Faces!

Here is my entry for Purple. This face always makes me smile.....

                                         Anyways, head on over here to check out more entries.

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I Heart Faces---Over My Head

It's that time again! YAY! This week's theme over at I Heart Faces is "Over My Head"

What a great theme! I just took this picture like 2 weekends ago when we went to Barefoot Park. Im sooooo giddy. It perfectly fits this weeks theme!

I love her hat. I love her in the country. I love the simplicity and I love the warmth in this photo. *sigh*



Head on over and check out more, sure to be amazing, photos! I AM!

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