The challenges of intentions . . .

 . . .  or wait should I say the intentions of challenges?

Oh, either way intentions are those things that in order to fully participate

it requires me to take action. 

Just having a good intention isn't going to get me very far.

So with today's word being "Intentions" at Beyond Layers,

I'm taking on the "Edit Me" challenge.

Because with all my best intentions, I've edited the last three and never linked them up.

The challenge is this: someone provides one of their photos for the challenge and then you

simply put your editing twist to it.

So here goes, I'm going to share my thought process along with my edits:

I started with this photo:

I removed the phone wires, adjusted the contrast and sharpened a bit.

I did all of this editing in picmonkey, because with the best of intentions I have yet to learn my PSE9.

I decided not to crop, I liked the empty space. But the sky needed something so I used different tints and selectively "painted" in some sunset colors, added a texture from Pixel Dust art at hardlight, and then a texture from Kim Klassen in overlay. I then used intrepid at 18%.....

But, I envisioned the barn sitting in a field, so I took this photo...and removed the cow. Don't worry I was gentle, haha!

Layered it back over the photo with the barn in mulitiply and removed the pasture photo off the barn.

Then I boosted the color only on the trees, softened the field of flowers and then added another texture from Pixel Dust in hardlight 21% which gave it the painterly effect I was after.

{linking this one with Edit me}

Happy Thursday!

Love, Kim

XO