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  1. What gorgeous photos, Brenda, and fabulous tips!!! You're just so smart and talented – we're lucky to have you share your wisdom with us!! Big hugs!!

  2. It's thanks to you for telling me how to do this when I came back to blogging or my pictures would still look horrid 🙂

    xo,
    rue

  3. My digital photos are a mess. I need a tutorial 101 on how to organize them! Thanks for the information. Your photos are amazing.

    1. I have my photos on my Desk Top only. I upload them there by month and year. That makes it easier to go back and find what I need. I truly believe the number one way to excel at photography is the same as it is for writing: the more you do it, the better you get at it.

  4. Brenda,
    Thank you for the tutorial. I need to check how long it takes for my blog to load and work on sizing my photos. Great job!

    Judith

  5. Brenda,
    This was lovely and educational, you did a great job of combining both- a true educator at heart, I think.
    Well, I would personally enjoy seeing more of your tutorials on photography, you know I did mention to you that you had a talent and you do.
    I just recently took an online photography course which I enjoyed too-we all want to learn more on the secrets to a good photo.
    I am so glad that you enjoyed yourself too and I enjoyed your photos!
    xo
    Jemma

  6. I had to smile when you said how happy you are as you have a load of photos to edit. I feel the same and would be lost without my picmonkey royale or photoscape. I love the clone tools, cropping, highligting etc. and always edit size for quick loading on the blog and my etsy shoppe. So many don't realize you can enlarge your photos when placing it in a post. It's fun to do and makes such a difference. Thanks for sharing. Great pics. cm

    1. I used to use Photoscape quite a bit, but with all the great things they've added to Picmonkey, I just use that now. The number one thing I see in new blogs is small photos. This is eye candy and needs to be large.

  7. I wonder if this can be done in Picasa editing. I need to really do something because I think my pics are too many pixels, thus too much load time. When I export them as smaller pixels in Picasa they end up fuzzy on the blog.
    I will try pic monkey Brenda.

    1. ok…just fyi, if you use picasa will let you reduce the pixel size. Then you export it to the folder of your choice. I will try this for my pics Brenda as I am afraid my pics take too long to load. Sheila

    2. It's important that your blog doesn't take too much time to load. You can go to Pingdom Tools and see how long it takes to load.

  8. This is always so confusing to me! Is the pixels # how you get the pictures to all be the same size?

    1. No, not necessarily. I could size mine at 600 pixels, then add them to a post and hit X-Large, and they'd look different than if I hit Large. The pixels are the many, many units, let's say, that make up a photo. But coming straight out of the camera, it's usually over 3000, as I wrote above. And that's way too many for our needs. Because the more pixels, the longer it takes to load the blog.

  9. Lots of great hints, Brenda! I love photo editing, too. I always resize my photos, but did not know the original size trick. I will have to try that! Thank you! Beautiful photos, Brenda!

    1. I didn't know that for a long time. I used to size mine on Blogger at X-Large. But if you do Original, they will be exactly the same size all the way down your blog. And I like that uniform look.

  10. I always say crop till you drop! You love pictures so much, you really would love instagram. If I can do it, you can do it. It is addicting. They have some amazing filters!

  11. So enjoyed your pics. I try, but my hands shake so I am lucky if my pictures have heads on the people. I don't know how to do all of those neat things that you do, so thank you for sharing your photos with all of us. Blessings, Carolyn in Florida

    1. Have you tried leaning up against something, or sitting down. Sometimes I do that. I might lean up against a tree or the wall. You could get a tripod. But I like to go out and take photos and wouldn't want to haul it around.

    1. I just never really saw the point. If someone wants it bad enough, I've heard they can probably take it off with Photoshop. And I just plain don't like to obscure anything in my photo with a watermark. I just hate it when someone puts the watermark in a very noticeable spot. Ruins the photo for me. Guess I'm a purist in the regard!

    2. That's exactly why I don't do it. If someone wants my silly pictures bad enough, they'll figure out how to do it regardless if I have a watermark. Besides, I don't think enough of my own photography to worry about it lol

    1. It was done with my camera. For years I've had a Canon Digital Rebel. Probably 7 years old now. What you do is this: Hold down the button enough to focus. Move this way and that. When you move, it will automatically change what it is focusing on, thus changing what blurs out. That's how you get a different blurry effect on different things. I always just use Standard Mode and never use flash. I'm to lazy to learn manual!

    2. I remember depth of field from a photography class I took many years ago at the Southwest Craft Center in San Antonio, TX. We actually used film! And chemicals to develop it! Such good memories of a wonderful experience…..

  12. This is a great tutorial Brenda! I always have to remind myself to take a wider shot rather than zooming in because I like just to zoom in on something when I'm photographing it. And when you zoom in on a photo you can't crop it, lol

    1. Depends. Even when you zoom in, straight out of the camera it's probably going to be over 3000 pixels. So you could crop part of a flower. Or part of the scenery, etc. As long as you've got that many pixels to start out with, you can pretty much do what you want.

    2. Then after I crop and save that pic, while still in Picmonkey, I hit the arrow that makes it go backwards. Then I look at Resize and if I'm back to the original size, say 2500-3000, then I can start cropping all over again.

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