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More Fun wiith Picasa

 I've long been a fan of Picasa -- the free photo management program.  I've mainly used it to crop my photos (THE most essential tool for me,) to straighten them, and occasionally to up the color saturation a tad.

A recent  version of Picasa (free download -- just google Picasa) has added a number of new ways to fiddle with your photos. The picture above of Eddie has been given the neon treatment; the clematis has been made to look like a pencil sketch . . .

Blue neon for the iris in a canning jar and the single white iris below has been treated to a heat map . . .

Oh, what fun I'm going to have! 

 

Misty Autumn

A misty morning . . .

Sun setting leaves afire . . .

Then dodging behind bruise-purple clouds . . . 

Mysterious, misty Autumn.

For Want of a Tripod

 What do you suppose I was trying to capture in this photo? 

I Call It Serendipity . . .

when I use the wrong camera setting and get a picture that is a black oblong . . . 

but which, tweaked with Fill Light and Auto Contrast,

turns out to be something strange and lovely. . .

perhaps a fairy's-eye view of Nature.

Saturated Rainbow

Just playing with the Special Effects in Picasa.  Above is a picture where I've gone full tilt saturation -- it doesn't look realistic at all but it was the only way I could get the second rainbow to be visible.

The picture below is unretouched.

Over on my monthly newsletter blog,  I'm talking about some of the books I've been reqading recently-- an extremely eclectic mix. 

Just a Closer Look . . .

This coleus cutting with its extravagant flowing roots is so pretty that I keep postponing moving it into a pot.

Catching  the light in my kitchen window, it tempts me in for a closer look.

Patterns, patterns, everywhere.

A brief post today -- I spent a lot of time over at my Day of Small Things blog, answering new questions about dealing with rejection and editing.  If you're interested in these topics. go here and scroll down to this image.