Coffee, cider, tea...what will it be?

If you have a snow setting on your camera, be sure to use it! In a snow environment, your camera thinks there is too much light and darkens your photos. The snow setting will take a more normal exposure for you.

If you are shooting in manual mode or similar, take a test shot and use your exposure compensation to get a lighter result.

To lighten a dark snow photo, open photo in editing program, copy to a layer, set blending mode to screen. If this is too light, reduce opacity. If… Continue

My extended family is very scattered. Several states. Budget challenges have caused our visits to be few. Few visits with cousins, aunts, uncles, even grandparents. I've tried several things over the years to take advantage of technology and connect the family (it's the first born in me) but the efforts haven't been wildly successful. That is until recently.

A few months ago I discovered the folks that created Ning, a means to create your own social network. Finding this Digital Scrapboo… Continue

While "shopping" over coffee this morning, I saw this layout and it gave me an idea...

This would be a great way to scrap the gift tages from your Christmas packages. I have always thought the gift tags were charming and hated to throw them out. And often, they contain sentiment. (or homemade art)

you could lay them out and scan them or carefully photograph them, or go hybid and use the real thing.

Capt… Continue

Try it out here

I think playing with this could be addictive.

There are other online color scheme tools I'm sure. Anyone have a favorite?