Tuesday, April 20
I had quite a lot of fun with Adobe Elements. I admit I’m a coward about learning how to use Adobe Illustrator. But, you know, Adobe Elements lets me play around and at least think I know what I’m doing.
I was playing around with the posterize effect. Posterize just makes it look more like a poster and not so much like a photo. It brings out details I hadn’t noticed before. (Like my grim face.)
I have a lot of fun with effects. This is how my photos came out.
Here’s another.
I also experimented with a composite photo. I haven’t learned to do it well yet, but here’s what I came up with.
You might notice I spend a lot of time square dancing. It’s fun.
I can have a lot of fun without being expert at Adobe Elements.
As for Flipping Book – it’s on my list of things that isn’t worth the trouble. I installed it again and again and nothing worked. I mean nothing! It wiped out the whole post, not just its own little area. I decided that it wasn’t worth the time I’d spent to make it work. Help on the web site wasn’t really helpful. Sorry Flipping Book.
Days and days ago
UH! OH! I’ve got a problem. I’ll be back with you as soon as I fix it.
Even earlier
Once in a while, a girl’s got to play. Here I’m combining my love of square dancing and Adobe’s Posterize effect.
Oh yes, I’m also playing around having problems with FlippingBook.
Please be patient with the adventurer in me.
Marilynne
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My grandchildren are growing up (or have already done so). We don’t have a lot of babies in our family. So, when I began a project and the neighborhood children came to help, I welcomed it. It just added to the fun.
At one time, we had two palm trees of the annoying sort. Annoying because they were in a position to stab you if you weren’t watching where you were walking. They aren’t my favorite sort of tree anyway. So, one day we had them cut down. Because the trunks were close together, I envisioned making a bench, of sorts to bridge the difference. At my age, I’m always looking for a place to sit.
It was a nice idea, but it didn’t work out. The trunk of the palm tree is covered with the stumps of branches cut away. It rubs at your legs. The tops weren’t cut off even. There was no way my husband was going to come out and even up the tops. Time passed and the inside of the trunks developed a prickly coating. You wouldn’t want to sit on it. Then the inside of the trunk began to break up. Now I understood why the tree cutters had slashed the tops. After a while you could pull out big chunks of fiber. Eventually there was a cavity in the trunk about a foot deep.
I had a light bulb moment. (That means I had an idea if you’re a lot younger than me.) I decided to plant the cavity with flowers. Once I realized I could do this without help, I was onto it.
Our neighbor has graciously provided us with some donkey doo. (Clue, it smells like donkey.) It had seasoned for a year and was ready for use. I put about 3 inches of donkey doo into the bottom of the cavity. Then I put a lot of planting mix in the hole. Whatever I planted here was dependent on this rich mixture to grow.
I was in the midst of spreading the donkey doo in the hole when the neighborhood kids came to see what I was doing. They were shy enough of me to not help me spread it, but they watched the process and wanted to know what I was doing. I told them I was going to plant flowers there. By the time I was dumping in planting mix the kids were into it with both hands.
We talked about what I was going to plant and how pretty it would be. They were happy to help me plant nasturtiums in a circle around the edge. Then we planted daisies in the middle. I told them the nasturtiums would grow long and stringy and I’d make them fall over the edge, leaving room for the daisies to get some sun. At least that’s what I hoped would happen.
For a while they came over every few hours to see if the flowers had come up. Then they lost interest. It was only me who exclaimed over the seedlings and watered them when they were dry. The kids probably never gave it another thought.
Me, I’m pretty pleased with myself. My plants still have a lot of growing to do, but already they’ve made a fluffy green top for that stump of a palm tree. Take a look.
Marilynne
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It’s the Saturday before Easter. Here’s what’s happening at my place.
Marilynne
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