Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Lacy Day 18: Birth Announcements

Today I sent the baby announcements off to the printers.  I did the layout and typesetting weeks ago before the baby came, but I took the photo today and edited it.  My Mac is in serious need of a RAM upgrade.  I have the max RAM that the computer will take sitting here on my desk, I just haven't installed it yet.  This project would have gone much, much smoother if I didn't have to wait on my machine to catch up with me.  Here are the front and back of the cards I'll be sending out soon.



I pulled the changing table over to the window where the light was better and took the photo.  After I put him down for his nap, I color corrected in PhotoShop and airbrushed out the rail of the changing table and some minor blemishes.  Then I added some selective blur and desaturated the image a lot.  I was going to use it as a black and white, but my husband didn't like the look of it, so I left a little color in.  I think it turned out pretty well, though I was rushed and may have cropped the image differently, adjusted the opacity of the "ribbons", and tweaked the blue in the cabuchon if given time to work on it.  Here's the finished image side by side with the unedited version in case anyone was overly impressed with my poor photography skills.  

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