The week in Pickle

Why do puppies grow so fast? It seems like he gets larger by the day. Right now, his head looks way smaller than his body should warrant- not sure if we are on an awkward puppy phase or if that is how he'll end up:).

And we still have no idea what he is- sometimes he looks like a long dog (Corgi, Daschund, etc) cross, and sometimes he doesn't.

But he pretty obviously adores his older brother. He has a habit of sitting on Chowder's head or feet. For the first 2 or 3 times this happens, Chow will move. After that, he just gives up and accepts the awkward cuddles.

And they do spend a lot of time cuddled. I think Chowder is pretty content with his new little brother. They spend a lot of time wearing each other out with viciousness. Then they curl up and make me smile!

Pepsi still does not know if she accepts this interloper, but she hasn't tried to eat his face yet, so I take that as a good thing.

Captured (in Black and White)

I'm having a lot of fun playing around in PhotoShop. I'd never really realized that a good black and white edit was so hard to find! There are several great tutorials online (I've had good luck with Mira Crisp's tutorial) and I also love messing with various actions, and I think I'm getting the hang of this!

I love the ethereal look of this image in color, but I think B&W really makes it stand out. Plus I love pictures of my bestie!!

Good to Wow: Looking up edits!

For the second half of the Good to Wow link up, I'm sharing the edits I did on these shots. I haven't graduated to advanced photo processing yet, so I mostly just played with color levels and ran a few Pioneer Woman actions (Boost and Lovely & Ethereal are my favorites to play with!), but I LOVE how the edits came out!

Balloons- these were harder to edit than I thought they would be. They were so overblown that it was hard to make the colors really come out. I do love how they turned out so ethereal. The next thing I want to work on is editing out lines (like the power lines in the 2nd picture), but I'm happy with my current results!

Edits:

SOOC:

 

Roommateo: I LOVE how these came out! The colors look so much better and the actions made my roommateo glow!!

SOOC:

So much better!

I know what I think of these edits- what do you think? I'd love to hear some opinions on these edits!!

Good to Wow: Looking Up SOOC

This has been a great week, and I've got a lot of wonderful shots to go through and expand my editing skills with. For this week's Good to Wow/Shoot and Edit, I found a couple shots that I think will be fun to mess around with!

On the first pair, I'm hoping to turn these over and under exposed images into shots that really POP! *giggle*

And on these two, I want to improve the color quality of these shots of my gorgeous and amazing Roommateo!!

{Disclaimer: I know we no longer room together. We also live several states apart. This matters not in the least. She is still my Roommateo!!!}

BTW- This is my favorite SOOC shot this week!!

Stop by Jill's blog to see amazing SOOC shots and check back for everyone's edits and the weekly tutorial with Ashley!