I spent yesterday spending a lot of time with my laptop, working on the multiple detail photos I want for each of the items I'll be putting up on Etsy. I finally finished the last of the photos at 5:45 pm, just in time to make my salad for dinner and put a portion of chili into a pan on the stove. It was a lot of photos - 63 of them to be exact, and each one had to be opened, downloaded, resized, enhanced, renamed and saved to the appropriate computer folder. I was working with the laptop, but saving it to a file that could be accessed by either the laptop or the desktop. Yesterday was VooDoo's 1st anniversary and I can't imagine my life without my it - it's been a great laptop and I use it almost every day.
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Taking a closer look at the Mali Wedding Beads strand I posted a week or so ago, this is the first of the five detail pictures I have of that strand. I may still go back and work on this one a bit more, to make it brighter and easier to see, but it still gives a much better look at the beads and their variety and shape. |
It was my first experience using the more up-to-date Photoshop version that I have on the laptop, and I rather liked it, although it was a bit challenging at first. I use Photoshop every day - I'm always pulling in photos and resizing or massaging them (or both). First thing in the morning, I'm doing it for my blog, and I've used the version on my desktop for years and years. VooDoo, however, came with a much newer version of Adobe Photoshop, and it has some nice features. I had to drill down a bit, however, to find what they were calling this or that feature and under which tab they had decided to put it.
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I have Photoshop on my main computer and Photoshop Elements on my laptop. (Photoshop is left, Elements is right in this comparison). The menus are completely different, and the program can do a lot more things automatically (if you allow it to do them). They're quite different, so there was a definite learning curve. |
My photos aren't fabulous, but they're really not too bad. I've certainly found worse in the photos I've looked at on-line. DH's photos for the items he'll be putting up on Ebay aren't great, and he's not even resizing them (which he really should do, and I suspect he'll have some uploading issues if he doesn't). He has a bootleg version of Photoshop that he's using, but it works for him (when he's inclined to actually use it). If Dale is ever able to finish making him a new computer (computer chips are impossible to get right now), we'll make sure to get him a new version of Photoshop, probably the Elements version. DH will complain, but what else is new? LOL
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At least I know where my photos are stored now (I had a bit of a hunt to find the files I had downloaded from my phone). I can pull them back out and massage them some more at the shop today, if I can manage the time. |
I spent an enjoyable hour+ watching the stream of Project Runway. I loved the outfits that each designer made, and the decision of the judges didn't surprise me at all. We're almost at the end of this season and I'll be sorry to see it end, but it's been so much fun to have a Runway again.
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For the first time in Project Runway history, it was an all female final challenge to determine who would get the opportunity to show a 10-outfit collection at New York Fashion Week. L-R - Coral, Shantall, Kristina and Chasity - all strong designers with very different clothing viewpoints. Although any one of them could pull off the win, I think it more than likely it will come down to Shantall and Chasity. |
I succeeded in the challenge of making my Ogre Juice without a kitchen sink. I won't say it was easy - but it was achievable. The next time I need to make a batch will be Wednesday, and the sink will (hopefully) be repaired by Thursday night. So I have one more "challenge" ahead of me. It wasn't a super major problem, though. I put on headphones, listened to one of my Spotify playlists, danced around the kitchen and back and forth from the bathroom sink, and made sure all "detritus" that I hadn't managed to swipe up with toweling, went into the toilet, not down the bathroom sink. There's nothing quite like having green and red peppers, jalapeno peppers, cucumber, zucchini, fresh green beans and parsley sitting on a cutting board next to the bathroom sink, waiting to be washed before getting cut up and used. Talk about a small counter ... I guess my kitchen counter isn't so small after all - LOL.
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Try to do a random act of kindness this weekend. The positive waves one kindness can prompt are astounding and can impact many more people through a single act. |
On that note, I'm out of here. Have an absolutely fabulous and wonderful weekend. We're actually above zero today already, so it's going to be a good day. I can just feel it! Please, if you can, do an unexpected kindness for someone else today to brighten their day. I'll be back on Monday.
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