My New Wallpaper

I like changing around my desktop wallpaper. Often. Most of the time it will be a recent photo I took of Jem, or maybe of our family. It's almost always a photo of a loved one. I have lots of those kinds of photos.

This time though, I wanted to try something different. I still wanted to use one of my pictures, I just wanted it to be people free. Goodness knows I have hundreds of tulip photos from our yearly trek to the tulip fields.... and beautiful scenery photos from our many outings.

I found this fairly recent picture in my 2011 folder, from Valentine's Day. This was the bouquet of flowers Brandon had sent to me when he was away in Japan in February. Aren't they pretty? It was a complete surprise - it really meant a lot to me to receive them :)

But uh...what on earth was I thinking, photographing these beautiful roses....on my ugly, green, bumpy carpet mat? HIDEOUS! I had to do something about it. So I opened up my picture in PSE 8 and went to town. Some careful selecting, some actions run, some textures added, some masking....and TA-DA! The same picture, just slightly altered in look, and the green rug GONE! I like it. And it is now my desktop wallpaper. It makes me happy everytime I turn on the computer :)

What's on your desktop? What do you look at everyday when you start your computer? Is it something that you love? If not...change it up!


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Heidi said…
That is some impressive editing. Looks great!
2:58 PM
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