Success Story of the Day

This boy's mother ordered some wallets of this picture. She asked me when ordering if I could take out the current background and replace it with a white background. I told her that I couldn't make her any promises but that I'd be more than happy to try and see what happens.

So I worked on it for a little while and tried various gradient background to try and make it look somewhat realistic, and it was looking ok, but not good enough. I then eventually came up with the idea of photographing the background and put that in behind the boy.

(I used the dog as a focus point)

After getting the colors to match and doing some blending, I made it work and I think the mother will be very pleased with the end result.

Delicious and Piping Hot in Three Microwave Minutes!!!

I've been pretty busy at work over the past month trying to juggle dance pictures (over 300 orders for just one school, and there's two schools to do) and senior orders. I'm basically doing the job of two people right now. I'm not really complaining though, I just have a lot going on right now.

The more that I've been working on these dance pictures, the stronger my desire has become to get a new laptop. It's always been in the back of my mind, more of an admiration, like "Those are really nice, I want one but don't need one," sort of thinking. Well now I need one. With the bigger file sizes that my camera produces and the new software that's come out recently, I definitely need a new one. At the present time it just takes a really long time to edit an image; it'll take anywhere from 5 second to a minute to load an image and then I'll make an adjustment and it'll take a while for it to take effect. It's really quite annoying. I can completely forget about using Aperture 3 because it's just too slow on this thing, so I can't take advantage of its new features. Photoshop CS5, which recently came out, is pretty fantastic, but I can't take full advantage of some of the new features because I'll get a window that says there's not enough memory to complete the task. I've had this thing for a good 5 years now. It's pretty much time to upgrade now.

I usually get the "You don't need a new laptop" face from Bethany whenever I mention my desire for a new laptop, and a year ago, I really didn't. But now, I really do.

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