I stayed home today….I awoke with a thundering migraine this morning.  Thankfully, I rarely get headaches….but when I get one ~ it generally knocks me out for a few hours until it goes away.  After I woke up and was feeling better, I played around on the computer a little bit ~ working again on the tutorial I discovered.  Oh, and the name of the individual the effect is named after came to me last night.  Hmmmm, maybe that is why I got the headache ~ straining my brains too much to think of the name.  The tutorial is called the “Dave Hill Effect”…….and if you want to check out…

I have been playing with another photo tutorial this evening…….my oldest daughter and her boyfriend……..before ~ ….and after I applied a few layers and filters…… Can you see the difference?  There is a name for this type of look but for the life of me, I can’t remember what it is called.  😕

I was playing around with a couple of post processing tutorials I found this evening when I realized the evening was slipping away.  This is one of the images I was playing with…..a garden decoration in my backyard I photographed this past weekend.  I was relaxing in a lawn chair and noticed the colors as the sun was setting.   The tutorial I was playing around with is one that adds a dramatic and gritty effect to images.  I had a few others I was working on ~ but the hour is getting late.