Pet Pop Art Prints From Your Favorite Photos

It has been awhile since I have had any “photo to art” business, so I am taking the opportunity to promote this service.

You can see the customer’s original photo and the pop art portrait I created from that. How it works: send me the photo you would like as art, pick out a style from my “Custom Photos to Art” Gallery, here, and I will provide you with 3 proofs from which you can choose. If you want something different than what you see in my gallery, just talk to me. I am happy to customize to your specs. Once you are happy with a proof, I will have it printed and sent to you (price varies depending on size). You can also buy the high res electronic file for $10 and have it printed as you wish, instead of or in addition to purchasing a print from me. This customer chose 11×14 for $20 total (for the artwork and final print).

My prices are pretty awesome compared to other sites that offer similar services (usually starting at $100). The reason I am able to provide this service at such a low cost is because… Photoshop is amazing, really. I put in the hours of photo editing for each of the styles you see available 2 years ago and saved the steps in Photoshop as “Actions”, which I can apply to your photos with a click. I end up doing some tweaking, as each photo is obviously different, but what would normally take several hours per pic is achieved in a fraction of the time. You can see an example of my work on child portraits at Infarrantly Creative, here.

I would very much like to get the word out about this great deal. If you are a blogger and would like to trade, I am open to doing work in exchange for a review/feature, or a giveaway on your site. Lets work together!

Free Shipping and 40% Discount on Photo to Canvas

Just thought I would pass along this deal. My friend Shannon asked me to doctor her photo before having it printed by Canvas People. She is taking advantage of this holiday deal. You probably have seen the free 8×10 canvas deal floating around blog land. Seems like they have some kind of deal going on all the time at Canvas People. I have not personally ordered one since I am still drooling over Infarrantly Creative’s Z-Gel technique she did on the photographs I transformed into pop art for her. Awesome tutorial here that I eventually plan to tackle.

Shannon had me edit photos of her youngest 2 children (shown here), which she ordered from Canvas People. There was a green tint when she got one of them in the mail, which CP replaced without question at no cost to Shannon. She is happy with the outcome of her first 2, and sent me this photo of her oldest…


I edited the original in photoshop to this…


Take advantage of this great deal, and turn your memories into canvas art. Or, if you are a diehard DIYer, give Beckie’s tutorial a shot over at IC. If you need your photo edited, I am happy to do it to your specifications for $10. Just contact me, or leave a comment and we can get started. Happy New Year!!!!!

Krome Photos Editing Site!!

I found this website, Krome, that offers professional photo editing services and must share the treasure with you. With the amount of time I spend photo editing in photoshop, this is very appealing. The results are wonderful, and you get 25 free “Krome Treatments” just for signing up for the free account. I Love it!! I was excited at the prospect of 25 photo edits for free, and the low rates even after the freebies ran out, so I uploaded some pics that I knew needed some major editing. Uploading was easy with the software made available on the site (here), much like uploading to photobucket or facebook. I was notified that my photos would be edited and I would be notified when they were finished, within 24-48 hours. That was yesterday. Today, I went to the site to find my photos had been edited. Lets check them out a couple out:

So, the picture of my sweetie and I was taken on our wedding day by a cheap disposable camera. It has always been one of my favorites, except for its poor image quality. You can our faces are red and lacking in detail because of poor exposure. The sky and background are dull in color. The Krome treated photo is much improved. Our faces are clearer, our skin no longer looks burnt, the sky is a more vibrant blue, the green greener, and the contrast way better. They even cropped out the random tree on the far right, and some extraneous sky off of the top. I consider myself quite the little photoshop photo editor, and I have to admit that my attempts to beautify this picture did not quite measure up to the Krome treatment.

Take a look at my beagle before and after pics. Again, the contrast is adjusted such that more detail is visible, the major “red eye” in his left eye is eliminated, colors are more vibrant, the photo is cropped and there is an artistic touch with a photo vignette. Pretty cool. I appreciate it because I have not been formally trained, and while I know what I think looks good, I don’t always know where to crop for good photo composition.
What would take me an hour, and likely not turn out as good, is handled by Krome Photos. It is a good place to backup and organize picture files as well. The website allows you to tag photos much like facebook (and even recognizes the people you tag in their other pics), and allows easy photo sharing across several social media sites. If I could change anything about the site, I would give it functionality to keep me logged in (“remember me”) so I wouldn’t have to put in my username and password each time, but that is pretty minor. Also, it would be nice if you could request specific artistic touches and edits, but for this price, the service is amazing. Go get your 25 free Krome treatments, and see what you think. I am hooked.

Speechless Saturday

Ripley the innocent beagle…I will be back in full gear Monday. All is well. Just taking a lil break to chill with my peeps. Happy Holidays!

Speechless Sunday; My Babies

Color Photos to Retro BW With Photoshop; And Free Canvas Print WIth Shipping

Whenever Shannon contacts me to do photo editing, I know it is going to turn into a blog post because her kids are crazy adorable. Today, she asked me to take color photos to black and white, leaving Madelyn’s flower pink. She is opting to take advantage of this offer over at Canvas People where you can get a free photo to canvas print when you pay shipping and handling.

I used photoshop to adjust the contrast, change to black and white, and to give the pics a retro feel. For the flower, I selected it before desaturating the pic, and made it into a new layer, which I blended of the black and white version using color mode. A whole bunch of stuff that only makes sense to you if you are familiar with photoshop. There are loads of tutorials out there. Play with your photos and get your free canvas print while you can.
I leave you with a yesterday’s wreath project, spray painted white, and photo edited…

Wedding Gift Custom Photo Art From Photograph

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Here is what I worked on today. My client gave me the picture on bottom, and I made the 11×14 inch top pic in photoshop. Photo collage in graphic design software is limitless. I was given instruction to go “lightly retro”. The print will be framed in a simple black frame, no matting. I have several wedding/ anniversary custom photos on the burner right now. It is making me itch to do one for John and I. You know I have already started ๐Ÿ™‚
I would LOVE your feedback. Blessings…

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Custom Photos To Oil Painting!

Here is what I worked on yesterday, and the reason there was no clay post…

I turned these photos to oil paintings in photoshop. These two love the camera! Clay post coming soon…

Custom Vision Board Project for College Football Player Hoping to Go Pro

Yeah, I know. There is nothing about clay in this, but it is what I did in lieu of a clay project, since my client wanted it soon. I had fun with it. She sent me some pictures and I turned them into this newspaper collage.

The idea behind a vision board, for those of you who are in the dark, is you fill it with things you would like to see come to fruition in your life. When you surround yourself with images of where, who, what you aspire to be, your circumstances change to match those hopes and desires.
There are endless ways to make them. Many I have seen use poster board with cut out magazine images or headlines. The first one I made for myself had a photoshopped picture of me crossing the finish line at the Boston Marathon. Hey, I didn’t say how long it took for the things to materialize. I still have time for that ๐Ÿ™‚
The concept has been popularized since the release of “The Secret” about the law of attraction.
Here is a great step by step to get your creative juices flowing in the area of your very own vision board. There is great power in positivity!

Polymer Clay Day 57: Clay to Wall Art, Oh Yeah…

And here it is… I have combined claying and graphic art. Happy happy happy! Here is the original clay photo from this tutorial…


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