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One magic day




Older version of "one magic day"
Lunch in Rathenburg
One magic day
No Training Wheels
joyful moment of 2008
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Brandy M 

17 January 2009 - 05:53 PM | Permalink: #1
This is so magical!! I love what you have done with the extraction and the story..thanks for sharing it!

Ngaire 

17 January 2009 - 06:42 PM | Permalink: #2
Wow great extraction work. Great Layout, you really get the feel of flying over the difference times.

KatieGrace 

17 January 2009 - 11:04 PM | Permalink: #3
This is wonderful. Love the extraction and the way you made it look like they are traveling through time. Really great!

Chan 

17 January 2009 - 11:35 PM | Permalink: #4

Brandy M, on Jan 18 2009, 09:23 AM, said:

This is so magical!! I love what you have done with the extraction and the story..thanks for sharing it!

Thanks for your lovely comments Brandy, this was one that gave me a lot of pleasure as it was lovely thinking back about the day!

Christine

Chan 

17 January 2009 - 11:38 PM | Permalink: #5

Ngaire, on Jan 18 2009, 10:12 AM, said:

Wow great extraction work. Great Layout, you really get the feel of flying over the difference times.

Thanks, it is always a delight remembering the grandchildren's wonderful imaginations.

Christine

Chan 

17 January 2009 - 11:54 PM | Permalink: #6

KatieGrace, on Jan 18 2009, 02:34 PM, said:

This is wonderful. Love the extraction and the way you made it look like they are traveling through time. Really great!


Thank you Kathy, the grandchildren do a lot of time travel and we have had everything from farms to swimming pools in the house when they are here. They are often Bambi and Faline or Wall-e and Eve, even Nemo and Dory at times.

Vaughnde 

18 January 2009 - 02:50 AM | Permalink: #7
How wonderful! Aren't grandchildren so much fun! I love spending time with mine too including adopted grandsons :) I absolutely LOVE what you have done here! The children will love seeing this as well.

Chan 

18 January 2009 - 04:35 AM | Permalink: #8

Vaughnde, on Jan 18 2009, 06:20 PM, said:

How wonderful! Aren't grandchildren so much fun! I love spending time with mine too including adopted grandsons :) I absolutely LOVE what you have done here! The children will love seeing this as well.

I think they will enjoy it and I hope they continue to use their imaginations as they do now. Thanks for your comments they are most appreciated!
Christine

Peggy S 

18 January 2009 - 06:59 PM | Permalink: #9
I love to do magical layouts with grandchildren too and yours is really fun! I still don't quite get how you did such a realistic magic carpet. You did a beautiful job of it. And I love the dinosaurs at the bottom! I think that when we capture their imaginations, it actually seems to make their imaginations soar even higher. We are making their dreams seem realized. You get to re-live the experience and they get to feel their potential. Thank you for sharing this with us.

Chan 

19 January 2009 - 05:49 AM | Permalink: #10

Peggy S, on Jan 19 2009, 10:29 AM, said:

I love to do magical layouts with grandchildren too and yours is really fun! I still don't quite get how you did such a realistic magic carpet. You did a beautiful job of it. And I love the dinosaurs at the bottom! I think that when we capture their imaginations, it actually seems to make their imaginations soar even higher. We are making their dreams seem realized. You get to re-live the experience and they get to feel their potential. Thank you for sharing this with us.


Hi Peggy,
I went back to the drawing board to run through the design step by step so that I could outline it for you and could not find the unflattened image! I knew I wanted to reduce the page to better fit A4 paper so I thought I had to go back and do it all again from scratch. I also searched for the file to no avail. I redid the carpet and then thought I would check again. This time I left the date out of my search and found I dated it a year earlier than it should have been so it was not missing. Whew! That saved me a bit of work and also reinforced the processes I used for the carpet, so no harm done...
Top to bottom of the rug I used DMI_Cozy_flowers, DEB_Character_Paper_AntiqueRug & DEB_Character_Paper_GreenStripe.
With DMI_Cozy_flowers I selected the plum coloured part of the paper, inversed the selection and deleted the rest. This allowed the colours of DEB_Character_Paper_AntiqueRug.jpg to show through. I then adjusted the hue etc. on the layers to coordinate the colours. I also used bevels (3px) on the layers to get a bit of depth for the carpet pile. I then made sure that the 3 layers were centred and merged them. At this point I transformed the image using skew and distort etc. until I got it to about the size and shape I wanted. Then I used the zigzag filter by the amount of about 40 to 3 ridges (not sure about the original carpet) but this was the setting after the rerun which looks as effective but slightly different.

Hope this helps,

Christine
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