I did what I usually do in these situations and calmly and sweetly started screaming at the top of my lungs and throwing everything down into one heap on the floor while threatening to get rid of all of his things if he doesn't clean up right away. I think I might have mentioned to them it was my worst Mother's Day ever and I wish I had nice kids that actually appreciated me. Yes, it has been one of those days… Luckily Mr. CoffeeShop was outside mowing the grass so he missed the fireworks.
Then I walked into Imp's room…. ARGHHHHHHHHHH! Please read the previous paragraph once again and add that I might have cried tears of frustration over the fact that my boys are complete and utter slobs while reminiscing in my head about our pre-kid years living in a spotless apartment with no little Lego pieces stabbing into my feet and tiny bits of cut cardboard and paper everywhere.
I know, I hate to rub it in about my perfect life as a perfect mother. ;-) Perhaps reading this makes you really appreciate the fact that you don't have a mother like me! Yet, as I type this I hear them cleaning Duke's room and chatting together happily, and they seem completely unaffected by my tirade. I guess "hysterical wants-a-clean house PMSing mom" is a common enough occurrence that they are not affected by it anymore. It sometimes stinks being the only female in this house (other than Blackberry the dog).
I am about to hide out in my room for an hour and fold the clean laundry while watching an Amazon Prime movie. They are going to be busy for a while so I might get some alone time and ironically enjoy a bit of Mother's Day. ;-) Yes, I am really a poster-child for a wonderful mom… Please feel free to judge me.
So now that I got that out of my system (thank you for listening!), on to the real reason I posted today. I have a new action I think you will really enjoy running on photos of your beautiful, sweet daughters who have clean rooms and don't purposely get mud in their ears.
I wanted to write a simple B&W action and I am really pleased with this one. You can adjust it for each image and it gives you a clean B&W edit. I used a stunning image from Royal Harrison Photography in the "ad" above.
When the action starts you will be prompted to adjust the contrast with a Levels adjustment. You don't have to make changes if your image doesn't need it. In this screenshot above I used a beautiful image from Photography by Kelley.
After the action finishes running, you can adjust the "Lighten" layer opacity. I also sometimes turn on the "Recover blown-out areas" and adjust the opacity.
I hope you enjoy using this new action! Have a great Sunday.
Download the CoffeeShop Pure B&W action. You can also download it here.
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