i love picasa

baby's first album cover

picasa is wonderful.  in case you didn't know, it's google's free photo editing program and i am in love with it.  i used to just use redeye, crop, i'm feeling lucky (that's my favorite button... you press it and your picture is magically prettier) y'know.  the basics.  but now i'm taking a million pictures a day and it's fun to see how different you can make it look from the original!  a complete transformation!

one time i took one of baby's pictures.  i did "i'm feeling lucky" and cropped it.  then i brightened it and retouched it to make her little baby acne disappear.  and then i fuzzed around the edges.  and then i tried it out in black and white, and then in sepia, and then, well, i was obviously getting carried away.  so i moved on and got carried away with a bunch of other pictures too!  hello new obsession.  how are you doing?

anyways, i'm feeling too lazy right now to post any before and afters but take it from me.  for having no talent, i'm able to do some fine things with picasa.  and kill a lot of dead nap time.

so how do you like baby's album cover?  i hope she never has an album but i'm fine with her having an album cover... y'know, if that's something she'd ever like to do.  this is actually the exact picture i took (with a regular point and shoot camera) but just with the different coloring effects.  pretty cool for not having to spend any money huh?  looks almost professional don't you think?  no?  flatter me.  

straight up lie to me. 

i'll like you better for it.