Good Morning

Hello everyone,

Busy day for me today. I am working with others on pictures of my parents 40th wedding anniversary.

The lighting was not the best in the videos and pictures so hoping we can have them turn out really special.

I will be back here soon. have the best day and weekend.

P.S. Designs of Cynthia is now going to have a link on Whispers of Country sometime in next few days. Check it out sometime. 

Until next time.

Cynthia

#wedding #pictures #anniversary #mom #dad #designsofcynthia #whispersofcountry

What are You Creating With: How Are You Promoting Your Work?

I've been hard at it today working on websites and facebook business pages. And I'm still not done yet. I'm always so very thankful for resources and programs to make my work easier.
Photoshop and PicMonkey are a godsend to say the least. 
Another cool little program I found is found Photo! Editor 1.1 at 
http://filehippo.com/download_photo_editor
I use filehippo.com because I've never had any trouble with malware thankfully.
Photo! Editor 1.1 has  KEY FEATURES INCLUDING

• Fix Red Eye:The Fix Red Eye tool allows you to easily remove red eye from your images. You can either fix your photo automatically or edit it in manual mode.
• Enhance Color:The Enhance Color tool contains an array of advanced tools for adjusting the color balance, contrast, brightness and saturation of an image. You can do this automatically or manually. And More..

Photo Editor 1.1 is an older program and doesn't particularly like to run on my desktop but my laptop doesn't seem to mind. Haven't tried it on mac yet. 

Just a little side note...don't use or download anything from  softonic.com. It's chock full of malware and stuff you don't want on 
your computer! Anytime I've ever tried to download anything 
from them, I backtrack and have to remove malware.

I've also included this 'Comic Hero Graphic below from PicMonkey to encourage
you to get on over and try out a free sign up if you haven't used PicMonkey before or 
have been kicking around doing so. I promised I'll be sharing more on PicMonkey and what
it can do. I haven't forgotten, just thought it important to share 
other great resources as well or in addition. Next post I will be sharing on some
PicMonkey's finer features. In the meantime, what are you waiting for?
Click the image and head on over to sign up for free. 

Before I go, I want to address briefly how your doing with your social media. Do you advertise on facebook? How's it going getting your work out there to the world?

A friend of mine offers you some tools/resources that are amazing. Jo Barnes has came from the same place as most of us. She's worked hard and learned Facebook mastery plus many other resources she'd love to share with you. 

She stays on stop social media changes in amazing ways. You know how facebook seems to be changing like crazy these days. One day things are 'same old same old', the next I'm floored by changes I wasn't quite ready for. Well......

Get Ready to Crush it on Facebook and Dramatically Increase Your Business Using the No 1 Marketing Platform Online Today!

Head on over explore  Jo's Facebook Domination Course. You will never meet a more real person and ready to help you make it where your going vs. just struggling and surviving.

#jobarnes #onlinemarketingaddicts #photoeditor #picmonkey #crushit #facebook #socialmedia #filehippo #malware #softonic #facebookdomination

Photo Enhancement: What do You Use to Create?

 Good afternoon,

I am curious what others use in creating. Do you photograph the world around you?
Or do you simply enjoy graphics, photographs, art, and so on for free or inexpensive and excellent qualities? 

I know I really need a good supply of graphics and photographs for my social media and website. There are times it's nice to have resources beyond my own to grab and use or create something really quickly with. One of those is my favoritest
(shhh is that a word or did I make it up lol): .
Anyway the program is PicMonkey

Do you use photoshop, scrap art, psp and tubes, poser, etc?

I learned photoshop several years ago when I was creating websites. I love it a lot for sure.
I've been learning and using psp and tubes for the few years. My desktop doesn't really like it and my laptop does fine with it. It's a real pain if I'm working on a project on my laptop but logged in to where the work needs to post on the desktop. Sigh

As it's been said, 'If there is a will there is a way'. With that said, I've found all kinds of work arounds for things. I use dropbox for one and learned how to 'favorite/star' a video or picture on my iphone and dropbox will upload it pronto. If the file isn't extremely large, I can email to myself and get it on the desktop. There's always a way. Or vica versa.

 I'm curious if you use Photoshop are you using Elements or a higher version?

Sometimes people don't want to admit they are using photo elements 13 for example. As if there is shame to using a very good program more than worth it's weight. Let's face it, not everyone can take classes or spend even more hours learning CS6 or others. Of course Lydia always has great classes but it's that time frame that would kill most people. 
I've even been using Canva and like it as well. Have you tried Canva? It's a real straightforward and easy graphic program as well.

I'm encouraging you to be happy with what programs your using. Don't allow yourself to be condemned nor condemn yourself.

As I said, I've been playing with a down right rad program,
PicMonkey: fearless photo embetterment 

At first I signed up for the 'free Royale program' but liked it so much I upgraded really super inexpensively and became a affiliate to let you know how awesome it is. 
Go ahead and click the link and go check it out for yourself if you'd like. I don't think you will be disappointed at all.

There are videos and tutorials to help you along the way and I'm going to be sharing more about features such as 'dodge and burn' and 'overlays' plus more in future posts. But don't wait...go ahead and sign up now.Click any of the images and head on over and get started.

Consider signing up for my newsletter. Once you sign up and confirm your email, you will be directed to a page on my site to choose a free image as my gift to say 'Thank You' for signing up.
Weekly I will be sharing images, resources, tools, valuable insights to get your work/creations out there to the world if you so desire and tons more. 
Go ahead and sign up below!

http://forms.aweber.com/form/25/978837425.htm 

#newsletter #picmonkey #canva #photoshop #dodgeandburn #overlays #create #textmasks

Yeah! I now have images for sale on Snapwire

Good afternoon,
Hope your day is off to a great start. 
I'm busy as a bug in the dirt but having more fun. lol
I wanted to let you know I now have images for sale on Snapwire and on my site. I even have some free ones I think you will enjoy. 
Check out the links below and see what ya think.
Later gator,
Cynthia

https://www.snapwi.re/user/speakingtruth2you
http://www.designsbycynthia.org

#snapwire #designsbycynthia #imagesforsale #imagesforfree