I ♥ Faces; Week 25

It's another week, and that means another contest at I♥Faces! The contest is actually for a wedding picture, but since I don't have any of my past photography on my laptop, I'm doing the "Just For Fun" category. I love this snap shot we caught of Dawson, "basking in the sun" so to speak, lol. I've never done anything like this lil' edit before, so I for sure had fun playing with it. The words on the image are lyrics from a Brady Bunch song, thanks to my friend Shaniell's quick thinking. Something about "...I gotta get me some of those rays." I'm not really happy with the way the wording turned out, I had it better pictured in my head. Not the wording itself, but how they're put on the picture. One thing I am happy about is the coloring, the oranges and blues. I think it looks great together with the original image. If any of you ladies that read this have any comments or suggestions on this image, I'd really appreciate it if you'd comment me :)

Incase anyone is interested, here is the original for your viewing and comparing pleasure!

3pk Photo Mask Freebie

Good evening bloggers :)
I love photo masks! I use them all over the place, like in siggies, my digiscrap pages and more. One of my favorite mask look right now is these splats I made. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do! There are three in this freebie pack. Click the image to download them. Instructions included! (BTW, isn't my neice beautiful?)

Birthday Wishes & Another Action

I just wanna start out by saying Happy Birthday Mommy!
Today's my mommas birthday! I dunno if or when she'll read this, but happy birthday!

In other news, I have a new action for ya'll today! This is a quick & easy way to give your photos a splash of color where u want it & a lil color burst to make it more vibrant! Once you press play, instructions will show when its done. Click the pic below to head to the download!

I ♥ Faces; Week 24 Contest

I found this blog and am officially in love. They have weekly contests and Im SOOOO in.
This weeks contest is called "Let's Hear It For The Boys!" and here is my entry for the kids category. I love this picture of my son Dawson. It clearly shows the wonder and curiousity through his eyes and facial expression that a brand new baby boy has. This picture makes my heart go pitter patter ♥ You can click the image to see the full size.

Other Freebies

Everything here at Tara's Tid Bits is and always will be free. I have a page for a list of all my actions, templates & tutorials, but this list is for all other freebies not listed there. Click the pic to go to the page to read more and/or download that item.

Tutorial List

Here's a list of all my tutorials I've blogged about. Click the links below to go to the page where you can read the full tutorial.

Part 1 - Color splash
Part 2 - Glitter animation

Image extraction

Template List

Here's a list of all my templates I've blogged about. They include templates for not only digital scrapbooking, but craft making, photo collages and much more. Click the pics below to go to the page where you can download the template. Instructions are in the ZIP file for you.

Action List

Here's a list of all my actions I've blogged about. Click the pics below to go to the page where you can download the action. If instructions are needed for that action, they'll be in the ZIP file for you.

FAQ

Here's a list of my frequently asked questions I get. Most of them are "How-To" stuff. Have a question? Post a comment below and lemme know!

• How do I install an action in Photoshop?
  Once you download the action you want, find the folder it's located in and then minimize that window. Then open the "My Computer" folder up in another window and up the folders in this order: C drive>Program Files>Adobe>Photoshop>Presets>Photoshop Actions. Then maximize the window with the action (.atn file) and drag it over. Tip: If your PS program is already open, restart it and you'll see your action in the action list.
• Which Photoshop program do you use?
  PS7
• Is there a way I can get the Photoshop program for free?
  Nope, but there is a program called Gimp, that is a lot like PS but it's free. It doesnt do NEAR as much, but for simple photo edits it works just as well. FYI: PS Actions and Presets and .psd documents will NOT work in Gimp. Two different programs, ya know? But a lot of it is the same, so you may be able to follow along one of my tutorials, just tweaking it along the way for Gimp. If you interested in downloading it, just google it :)

Free PS Action

Well, afternoon everyone :)
I know I said I'd be on yesterday with a tutorial, but that didn't actually work out as planned. Something funky happened with my laptop and it wouldn't start up all the way & crashed. It took me all day to figure out the problem and late last night I fixed it, yay!
Aaannnnnd, I know I told ya I'd give ya a tutorial, but how bout an action instead? Yes? Ok, good! This is one I made for an effect I use myself a lot! I love it really. What it does is it turns your image black & white and gives you two layers of softness, "Soft" & "Extra Soft", just by turning their visability on & off. This action uses gaussian blur filters, where they are set for high resolution images, but there are directions within the action that tells you what to do for a low res picture as well. I hope you enjoy playing with this one like I do! Oh, and also, I made this action in PS7 so I'm not sure which PS programs it will all work in. Please lemme know in the comments below if it does/doesn't work for you. Thanks!
Click the image to download this PS .atn file!

P.S. I used some pictures of my lil sister as my example above. Isn't she gorgeous?

Where's Waldo?

Okay.. not really. But 'Where's Tara?'... well I'm right here. Ya I know I havent posted in over a month. Guess thats what happens when you're busy with a newborn & a toddler. Anywho I've got plans to post a tutorial on Monday. I'll work on it over the weekend :) Check back Monday!