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Mom circa 1950

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Sean and I had a nice visit with mom today-we mainly went shopping! : ) I am always happy to find paper craft stuff at the Dollar Tree. Also got a few things at Value City (new badly needed bath towels) and JoAnn’s where I got a few magazines and discounted garden stuff.Mom gave me this copy of her at about age 20, so it was 1950-1. I was playing with it in PSP7. Brian took a photo of the copy for me. I’m not really done with #2, but I thought you’d like to see some improvements. She was and is still a pretty lady. She also has an outstanding soprano voice, though I haven’t heard her sing lately. All are clickable…

This was cut out and glued on paper! Not sure what the definite shading is on the right side of her face…

The original shot of Mom

Here I airbrushed boo-boos-where her hair and blouse had been taped, the unbalanced background, the drawn in eyelashes at the corner of her eyes. I did add ‘whiter’ flash dots in her eyes to make the photo looked newer. As I said, I still need to touch it up. This was over an hour’s worth of work.

Fixed up in PSP7
And finally some artistic effects…

Artistic effects

A cool effect…
A cool effect…

I vote for Penelope Cruz to play Jeanne in her life story. She looks more like my mom than I do!
Penelope

Kid stars

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Just playing with the paint shop pro again. I just love Abigail Breslin (Signs, Little Miss Sunshine), Dakota Fanning (I am Sam-favorite-War of the Worlds, Dreamer, Charlotte’s Web and she has a little sister just like her Elle!), Angus T. Jones (Two and a Half Men the tv show that I don’t watch too often, but he reminds me of my brother Ken at that age) and  new one to the list Jaden Smith (son of Will and Jada, though I haven’t seen his debut movie, he is just so dang cute in his interviews and his dad is from Philly). I made this collage to salute their cuteness. Everytime you see them on tv, like The Tonight Show, etc. they are just happy kids. I can’t believe Dakota is almost 13. If you haven’t seen any of their movies/show, you should!

I forgot Bindi Irwin, the late Steve Irwin’s charismatic daughter who is just amazing, but not sure if she will be a movie star. She’s popular on tv though.
Kid stars

Dianne Crocker

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Having a little fun taking photos to thank my friend for the goodies I purchased from the g.c. she gave me from the Williams Somona catalog (as a Christmas gift). I got the personalized pink apron, the bowl, pink-tipped spatulas and a paring knife.
I had just gotten my hair done today, so that was the motivation for the photo taking. This was touched up a bit in PSP as the flash didn’t go off and it was a bit dark and I added some contrast and a border to it.

I have dark blonde/lt brown hair, so the editing made me look like a red head.

Dianne Crocker

It’s a Wonderful Life

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Jimmy Stewart from Indiana, Pa. played George Bailey the character who felt like everything he wanted to do got pushed aside. I loved this character and I think Jimmy was such a gentleman. It was just his voice that was a bit grating. I hope you’ve seen this move and if you can’t make out my phrase there, it says ‘Every time you hear a bell, an angel’s got his wings’ or something like that. : )

Ok, I agree with Barbara, Jimmy had a very memorable voice-maybe it was the people who tried to imitate him that made me think his voice was annoying. Shame on them! ; )

Creating with PSP

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I found this lovely photo of Elsa Lanchester as

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

I took this edgy shot of myself-lol and…
Super imposed it over Ms. L’s. face.

It still needed a little something to look like a blended photo so…
I tried some special effects and this is what I got!

I thought this looked like a mirror, so I added some light spots.
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