2 posts tagged “pix”
The photo on the left needed to be desaturated and then I tweaked some things, but it's one of my favorites of her. The one on the right was badly ripped, scratched, had spots all over it and had pieces missing and was almost completely yellow. The original was hand tinted at one time. This is what I came up with the limited time (and skill) I had to work on it. (If anyone knows of tips/tutorials for this, please drop a link in comments, thanks!) I still need to go back and work it some more, but compared to the original, I think mom will be pleased. In working on the photos, it's hard not to be amazed how much my 8 year old daughter, looks like my mom.
People say my daughter looks like me, and although I look for the most part like my mom, my daughter looks more like her. That's a good thing, for my mom has aged beautifully, and even after last year's bout with breast cancer taking it's toll on her and hip replacement on the horizon, for a nearly 74 year old woman she is aging gracefully and looks phenomenal, without any outside enhancements.
Anyway, my life is so busy and the business of scanning and retouching and printing enough photos to even begin putting the scrapbook together has taken more time than I anticipated. It's my parents 50th anniversary this year, so I may put some of them in a simple Picaboo album, so they can enjoy them, and continue the slow and easy pace I'm on for the art book heritage album I'm planning on crafting. Hopefully that will get done in my lifetime or my daughter will have to take over where I left off!

