The Easy Way and My Way...

Ok. I seem to have a very distressing syndrome. Maybe I have had it all my life or maybe its a part of loosing my mind since having children but what ever its official name is I'm calling it Good Idea / Bad Idea Syndrome. (If you have a better name I am open for suggestions)

Let me give you a few examples of how this Syndrome has crept into my daily life over this past week...

Good Idea/Bad Idea: Put Selah and Eliana out to play in the Sprinkler, Mop the floor.

Good Idea/Bad Idea: Cut an entire Watermelon for dessert, try to slide the entire thing from counter to plate singlehandedly.

Good Idea/Bad Idea: Make Garlic Toast, Use broil

Good Idea/Bad Idea: Let Eliana colour with Chalk Pastels at the table, fail to notice when she hops down and starts playing around the house with highly transferable chalky hands.

Good Idea/ Bad Idea: Oh well I am sure you get the idea!!!

I need Help.
lol

We Picture This {Before and After}

So I am definately new to the world of post processing but thanks to the freeware program GIMP (Photoshop for those of us not yet ready to invest the money in buying the real thing!) I have been having a lot of fun playing with even the most basic tools.

Before

Canon EOS 30D

F stop F 4
Exposure 1 500 sec
ISO 320
Focal Length 75mm

After

So using Gimp, I first played around with the colour tools - mostly hue and saturation. Then I cropped the photo to eliminate the house in the background and finally I used the clone tool to eliminate some of the dirt piles in the background.

I love this photo and it was really fun to find ways to make me love it even more...
I am definately looking forward to learning how to make more artistic modifications!

OH and a BIG P.S. - How in the world do you upload larger pics, I picked the large size when I placed them on the blog but as you can see this is all I get!! I did try manually stretching them out afterwards but it affects the quality of the image...any suggestions would be fantastic!!