Picnik (Otherwise Known As My New Addiction!)

Happy Friday, all!  MP here!  So ... anyone who has followed this blog for any length of time knows that my photography skills (or lack thereof) have been a source of frustration for me.  All I can say is it's fortunate for me that I have some really cute subjects to photograph, otherwise I'd be sunk!)  Still, it's something I've been trying to work on, and I did sign up for a photography workshop (that has since been put on hold indefinitely due to lack of enrollment) so for now I'm still on my own.  I'd say I've made a small amount of progress, but still have a long way to go, and therefore photo editing programs like Picnik are my new best friends! 

Not only do they help me improve the photos I'm currently taking but I can also go back and look at photos I've taken previously (some of which are REALLY bad) and try to make something usable out of them.  I'm also really intrigued by the pencil drawing feature that I used on this picture of Tanner I posted a few days ago.  

Last night I found some pictures of Tucker I'd taken last December and one in particular I liked quite a bit ... 

not because it was a very good photo but because it captured something in Tucker that I particularly treasure ... the gentle, earnest, often wistful expression in his soft brown eyes.  So I decided to play around with it a bit and after I'd cropped it a little and messed around with the pencil drawing feature, I ended up with this ... 

which has become my new screen saver!  

Meanwhile, speaking of photography, have you "scene" THIS BLOG?  If not, you simply must!  It will make your day ... I promise!