Album Designer - How Hard Can It Be?

This weekend I read Jeff's blog at PhotoWalkPro about a fun little project that has been making the rounds. I haven't personally seen it on Facebook yet; so I thought I'd get it going with some of my friends. The idea to use Photoshop (or similar) and some random titles and words to create an album cover for a fictitious band. So here’s how it works:

1 - Go to “wikipedia.” Hit “random”
or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to “Random quotations”
or http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 - Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover. Give credit to the photographer.

4 - Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.

5 - Post it with this text in the “Body” and TAG the friends you want to join in.

The above photo is the one that I made from the exercise. I got lucky and happened upon a beautiful photo in flickr by Larissa °LaLi

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Tara Whitney Photo Collage

As is pretty evident on my page, Tara Whitney took photos of my family last summer. She was awesome, she was amazing with the kids and we have some amazing photos in the house. I recently downloaded a free program called shape collage and I thought it would be fun to use Tara's photos to pay a little tribute to her. The Shape Collage program allows you to make any shape you like and save as a jpg, png or even as a photoshop document for further editing. Unfortunately, the photos are really small in the collage above so you can't really appreciate them, but it's still kind if fun (if you click the photo above it opens on a new screen and you can see the individual pics better). Be sure to check out Tara's updated web-site or her blog; she is now offering home videos along with her photo packages which sounds like a lot of fun!

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I *heart* faces: Pets

OK, there is also a photo contest for pets this week. When we were in Scottsdale a couple weeks ago, I saw this HUGE dog with an amazing face at the Rock n Roll Marathon. In between cheering on the runners I kept staring at the dog. I finally got the courage to ask the owner if I could take some photos and she agreed. I found out it's not so easy to photograph dogs because they move around a LOT; but, here is my favorite.

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I *heart* faces: The Eyes Have It

OK, I didn't win the last contest at I *heart* faces, but I am going to try again this week. This is a photo of my son (SOOC); I could photoshop it to make it pop more, but this is what he looks like so I'm going with it just the way it is. I love this photo, especially his eyes; I hope you do too! At least these contests are getting me to update this neglected blog once a week.

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I *heart* faces

This is my first photo contest entry. The theme is Joy and I have the perfect photo of Evangeline watching her cousin while they were playing in the fall, actually winter, leaves. This is pure joy.

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12 Days of Giveaways at Design Mom

Design Mom is hosting 12 amazing Giveaways on her web-site on December 12th for the 12 Days of Christmas. Go to Design Mom on Friday for your chance to enter 12 separate Giveaways. Design Mom is a great blog you should be reading anyway, I don't know how I lived without it.

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Tara Whitney & MCP Actions

Photos by Tara Whitney / Blog It Board by MCP Actions

This summer we were so lucky to have Tara Whitney to come to our house to take some family photos. She is so lovely and sweet and amazing with the kids. She was especially great with Dylan who wasn't really on board with the whole photo shoot idea. She got some great photos of him. I can never get good photos of him because he won't cooperate with me. So, THANK YOU Tara for coming out to our house and for taking such wonderful photos of the family, it means so much to us that we were able to get them taken at home!

I also want you all to know that I created the photo post with Magic Blog It boards from MCP Actions www.mcpactions.com They were SO easy to use and made putting this collage of photos together so quick & easy. I wasn't sure about how easy it would be, so I went to the MCP Actions web-site and there is a link "try me" so I could try it for free; but now I know I will be purchasing these actions to make blogging photos super easy.

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