21 Questions from Johanna

Johanna wrote me 21 questions to answer and post on my blog. And I wrote her 20 questions for her to answer on her blog.You can read her answers here.

1.      Favourite Pop: Fanta, I mean its electric orange….

2.      Favourite Song: Lead the Crowd by Joe Brooks

3.      Romance or Adventure: ADVENTURE

4.      Would you rather sing, or write? Eeeeeeeeeeeee that’s a hard one…. Write?

5.      Best Rainy Day activity: Watching Pride & Prejudice or Sense and Sensibility

6.      Favourite lady costume from any movie: Princess Leia’s white dress with the hood, either that or one of Eowyn’s dresses.  

7.      Soufflé or Brownie: STOP WITH THESE HARD QUESTIONS.

8.      Math or Science: Depends on the day…. Math?

9.      Bunnies or Birds: Is the bird a parrot or a crow or a duck? If it’s a parrot that can talk then bird every time.

10.  Yes? Yes always yes. Just yes. Unless no.

11.  Merlin: has distracting ears, and the same haircut FOREVER or "silver wings protect the sword!"

12.  Favourite Bible Verse: 2 Corinthians 1:3 - 4

13.  Movie you most want to see: Frozen

14.  Book you really want to read (real or should be written): Whatever book comes after the Sword in the Stars.

15.  If you had a horse you would name it: It would depend on my mood, but it’d be a tossup between Maximus, Frank, and Shadowfax.

16.  Drawing or painting: Painting

17.  Snow or Rain: Snow, always snow. Snow = yes

18.  Prince or Farm boy: The one that does NOT have creepy facial hair

19.  Favourite Letter: N

20.  Favourite Quote: “Weird scares away the people we don’t want to hang out with.” - Johanna

 21.  Current Person you admire: Hmmmm Yousef Karsh

My Week in 88 words

Sunday
We watched three episodes of Leverage in one night!


Monday
Spent the day Shopping in Tikerdag
 
Tuesday
Finished math! Er almost....


Wednesday
Really finished math!!! And Skyped Sarah with Johanna


Thursday
Wrote down test scores.


Friday
Got bit by one of the few dogs with owners. Had to get a vaccine for rabies, 4 more shots in the next 28 days or they'll send the police after you (no joke). 0.o


Saturday
 Went to Gelibolu got groceries, a lady bug cake. Also I got a hair cut!

It's been an interesting week.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 12 - Review

30 days ago I downloaded the free thirty day trial of Adobe’s Photoshop Elements 12.

Let’s talk about that.

 
At first I was a little intimidated by it, Elements 12 looks completely different to 10. But once I start to poke around I found that quite a few things are in the same place. Some things though, like the panorama stitching tool are in a completely different menu.
In spite of the changes it didn’t take me long to get comfortable with the new interface.
 Elements 12 has three basic modes represented as tabs at the top of the screen, Quick, Guided, and Expert. Each mode has a different level complexity, with Quick being the simplest and Expert being the most advanced (funny how that works).
Because of my level and knowledge of the software I found that Quick mode was too simple. Since I liked having more control I spent 99.99999999999999% of my time switching between Guided and Expert.
In Guided there are many preset effects and filters that you can add to your image. It’s easy to make an image black and white, or tweak the colours.

In Expert mode you can do so much more! Add a person to a photo:

Or give someone elf ears:

My favourite tool would probably be the burn tool. It’s just so handy!

I think Elements 12 could be equally useful to the quick snapper, and serious photographers alike.
With all this in mind I think Element’s price tag of $100 is justified.

All in all I really enjoyed my trial with elements 12. I get the distinct feeling that I’ve only scratched the surface of what you can do with Adobe Photoshop Elements 12. If I had the money, I’d definitely buy it!

P.S. My birthday is coming ;)

Goodbye Elements 12

My Trial of Elements 12 has come to an end, and now It's time to reminisce ;)

 Elf ears

Cat: DO YOU HAVE FOOD?

Me: No

Cat: DO YOU HAVE FOOD?
Me: No, go away

Cat: I'll watch you then

 Some days....

An unexpected picture

 Happy Day

 Good hair day

 Me and my Tardis

 Mittens from Grandma R ♥

 :)

 Oslo, Norway

 I can't believe it, I'm losing to a sheep!

 Johanna

Brush on a stump

Tauriel

This is probably the most thought out photo shoot I have ever done. I wanted to dress up as a character, so I chose Tauriel from the Hobbit. I made the bow and arrow myself with string, pleather, sticks, and shiny markers. I’m really pleased with how these pictures turned out (:
Thanks to Mom who let me borrow her attractive green shirt. Also thanks to Johanna who let me repeatedly raid her stash of stuff. (:
The shoot went really well, until I broke my bowstring and it started to rain again :P
Some of the pictures I put elf ears on, others I forgot to :P
But that's OK I got quite a few shots I really like :)

 Elf ears

Ignore the crooked arrow, no stick is perfect.

 I had a great time playing with the colours in this one,

 making it look like a different word....

 I'm proud of this one because I didn't have to crop it. This is straight from camera (maybe a little colour correction)

 I think I like this one best, you may see it everywhere from now on :P

"Give the gourd a bow and arrow and he's a REAL elf."

-Veggietales

This is What I Did This Morning

This is what comes of listening to Owl City the entire morning, well kind of.

I really enjoy using Photoshop, it's fun.

Monthly Report Cards: March 2014 goals

March looks like an exciting month!

Take the hobbits to Isengard
This game, LOTRO is having a contest, take level 10 hobbits to Isengard; which server can do it the fastest? I’m planning on participating. I’M REALLY EXCITED. Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Play my violin everyday
YES. Mom suggested this, and I think it’s a good goal for this month (:

Work
I’m doing odd jobs around the house/yard for cash because I want to buy a new camera this summer.

Finish the red dress with Mom
This seems to be the month for it.  

Make 1-2 videos
Yesssss I need to get into gear for this and just do it. 

Read Johanna's here.