let's have a picnik

sometimes i like to edit the crap out of a picture until it's hardly recognizable.  for some reason it just really seems to make me happy.

take a normal picture with bad lighting and a boring background like this

 add some glow

add some blur

adjust highlights and shadows

add some more blur    (i love the blur)

make it black and white

crop it    (look at me!  i'm using the rule of thirds!)

and add your favorite cliche, but exceptionally meaningful, mormon phrase.

voila!  now your kid's picture looks like something straight out of deseret book.

have some time to kill?

just pick a few pictures and try out picasa and picnik.

they're free and strangely addicting.