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So I found this really amazing (and pretty damn cool) tutorial over at Planet Photoshop for a Mosaic Design on a Photo. (Direct Link) The tutorial was pretty easy to follow and can probably be used on other types of photos, not just photos of people. Enjoy!

So the Little Lady and I decided to make Potato and Cheese Pierogies for dinner. A friend mentioned he seasons them and fries them so I went with that method. They turned out amazingly good. Absolutely delicious. This dinner will appear again on my table in the future.

I have a very good friend who checked his one-time use cameras when flying home. They went through the deep x-ray scanner at the airport and the images are covered in noise and have become quite pixelated because of this. I am looking for help in trying to clear them up and bring them back into a higher quality. (I think I broke twitter asking for help, but I’m not sure…)

Here is the first image that I have tried doing this on my own, this is the original:

If you click on it, it will pop open in a new window at full size (1545x1024) and I have enabled scrollbars and resizing for those who are interested in helping.

The photo is upside down, so I had to flip it 180 degrees. Then I duplicated the background layer and used multiply and I applied despeckle and then a gaussian blur at 1.0 to soften it. I also had to resize it due to it still look awful at full-size.

Any help regarding this would be appreciated. If there are professionals who are able to fix the photos I am sure my friend might be interested in reasonable rates. Feel free to contact me at mnlghtrose (at) gmail (dot) com.

Thank you.

So today I was feeling pretty darn crappy this morning as Demon Week kicked off yesterday and Second Day of Demon Week is always the worst to get through. I felt as if I wanted to simply rip people apart and that’s no way to leave the house. When I poured my second cup of coffee this morning I took a lovely pill invented to stuff the Demon back into her Dungeon. After drinking my second cup of coffee and Evony going down for a 15 maintenance session I decided a hot shower would do me some major good.

After the shower I felt so good I ended up doing full blown hair, makeup and nails. Yes, nails. I decided I wanted to wear the new sandals I bought ages ago when there was still this white stuff called ‘snow’ on the ground and hadn’t gotten to wear them yet. (Pffbt, sandals.. they have two inch heels, I don’t wear sandals what am I thinking??). They are a lot like my favorite ones I wore for years and finally gave to the child since she stretched out the straps with her full size larger feet.

I did not take a photo. The only differences are that instead of the stretchy straps they buckle (which almost makes me hate them because buckles are a pain in the tush for me) and instead of a glittery, silvery over the toes strap it’s a dark, shiny over the toes strap. They are nice and I love them (except the damn buckle). So I had to paint my toes in order to wear them because I hate my feet and they need decoration when wearing sandals. They didn’t turn out too bad either, but no, there won’t be photos… maybe another day. Just the one below:

So I’m a day late in posting birthday photos, but I had more interesting things to do, which I’ll let you know either later today or tomorrow all about (it involves finishing a brand new novel).

So I’m 33… Yay. Hehe. I have been told for the last 10 years that I look 16. Unless I do my makeup and then I might look old enough not to be carded. People assume that my daughter and I are sisters and to me that’s a backwards compliment. I tell people that I’m older than they are simply because I have a 15 year old daughter, even if they are older than me. Raising teenagers can be complicated, but so far I’ve been lucky and ended up with a pretty good child.

So here are a couple of photos taken and yes played around with in photoshop, I simply can’t resist. I’ll probably post some that are much more altered. Here I just adjusted lighting and so forth. (PhotoFixing, not Shopping.) The weather is sunny and bright and in the 60s. Pretty soon summer will be upon us and people will be whining about the heat. Not me.. I’ll enjoy every second of it. Laters.

On occasion I allow Dusty to drink water out of my mug. This of course spoils him into thinking he can do it whenever he wants, which is not the case. I’ve almost gotten him to the point where he knows when he’s allowed to drink out of my mug (when I’m offering) and when he’s not (when I don’t have water in it). I had poured the rest of my water into their bowl before we left for Honey’s birthday dinner. When we got back, I sat down and Dusty started messing with the mug. He kept trying to put his face in it and didn’t succeed at first. So I told him to stick his head in the mug and he did. I was so shocked i had to take a photo. Then to see if he understood, I told him to do it again and he did. How hilarious is that? Enjoy!