I had some extra time this weekend. OK. I didn’t really have extra time. I had
time I chose not to fill with bookkeeping tasks, messy drawer organization or
exercise videos.
Changing up the look of my blog, however, seemed like an
excellent use of stolen moments.
Three photos in my iPhoto library had potential. I opened
them in Photoshop. I clone-stamped and cut and copied and cartooned. When I
couldn’t figure out how to do a word bubble in photo editing I pasted the
picture to a Word document. When I couldn’t figure out how to save the result
as a JPEG file I TOOK A PHOTO OF IT FROM MY COMPUTER SCREEN. Oh yes, I know how
to fool iPhoto.
And then I started messing with different format options on
blogger. What looked best with which
photo? In the time it would have taken to clean every drawer in my house, catch
up on all filing and bill-paying and do my 5-mile walk video, I had chosen a
format and a photo. I put it all together, viewed it, and………….
The photo, the one I had worked over so arduously, was displayed in
such tiny proportions it would have been dwarfed by a postage stamp.
Why bother? So I threw over the entire homey, cozy,
clever-photo-topped format and chose a trendy Dynamic View.
Because when you think Prude, you think Dynamic. And trendy.
But I refuse to let all that work go to waste. Here are my
top contenders. You would have had one of these staring back at you every time
you opened ‘The Prude Disapproves’.
Maybe forced change isn’t so bad.
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| The patriotic one. This took SO MUCH TIME |
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| Via vacation via camera via iPhoto via Photoshop via word processor via camera via iPhoto |
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| The 'awwwwww' one |
9 comments:
Hello frustrated Prude. Hang in there.
I especially liked the top photo.
It took me half a minute to find this post...the post first appeared as a mosaic of many photos. I had to click on classic view and then it revealed itself.
I think your frustrations a all worth it when you can post a humorous Prude about it. This was great and the photos just as great.
Just tried again and the post showed up right off the bat. Hurray.
Hahaha. I laugh at your expense (and clever writing), and feel a little better about my own "wasted time".
How can I ever bear to banish a dust bunny again? I had no idea how adorable they are! Prude, I'm with you--it's better to mess about with photos in blogs than to chase away Snicker-like dust bunnies and clean drawers.
Dynamic and trendy are indeed the words that pop to mind when I read the Prude. Of'course dynamic and trendy are perspective driven. I live in a vacuum. Creative and goofy also pop to mind for some odd reason.
Well, Prudie, thnx for justifying my stolen moments. You are, however, far more talented than I in your use of them. I like photo #1 and #3!
I don't know ladies. To be true Prude-encouragers you should be telling to to polish my windows with newspaper or buff the family shoes.
hrzlvr- nice to see you!
telling 'ME to polish etc etc
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