when old feels better...

this isn't really a tutorial. but i wanted to share something with you.

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the hubby and i went out for a little drive yesterday and as beautiful as the sky was and as great as the barn was that caught my eye. it left me empty. or at least wanting more.

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what i really wanted

was for this photo to look old enough to be held in arthritic hands

while a story of what happened in this barn years ago

was shared with me.

in order to do that

changes had to made

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i felt i had to get rid of the dirt pile in the lower front right hand corner

{only because it bugged me}

and

the sign in the dried prairie grass.

then the "will call sheriff" sign on the door

{which made me laugh}

felt out of place. so i got rid of that.

there was also a large square cement box on the bottom right of the barn

that my eyes kept going to. so i made that disappear too.

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after all of those things were cloned over. i was ready to play.

so with a few "old" colors added and an aged texture

the photo became what i had envisioned in the first place.

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i'm kind of thinking about doing something like

"make it pretty" mondays in march

where all of you can join me on mondays and we can share what we did to a photo

to make it better. to change it. to make it pretty.

what do you think

?