Out-of-the-Ordinary Christmas Cards

Sometimes I think there's a bit of ol' Ebenezer Scrooge in each of us when it comes to selecting Christmas cards, after all there's nothing new out there, the cards are all the same so why bother. 

WRONG!  This year you don't have to settle for a card that's just okay.  This year you can send your Christmas wishes with cards that are new and fresh and unique.

But that's not all, if you hurry you'll have a chance to win some of these cards - you may even find yourself wanting to keep the cards for yourself. :o).  As they say in most TV infomercials, "...but that's not all," these cards are earth-friendly.  Can you believe there's even more?  Well there is, 10% of all proceeds go to World Orphans!

In a nutshell here's what you'll get:

• Unique & beautiful cards to send
• To do your part to preserve the earth (eco-friendly materials & packagine)
• And most importantly you'll get to be a part of caring for orphans around the world
• promo code ILOVERLPCO gets you 10% off your order.

Don't waste another minute, go visit RLPCo. (Red Letter Paper Co) and enter for a chance to win some truly unique cards.  But hurry, it ends at the end of the day, Monday, November 22. You're going to fall in love with these cards so remember to put RLPCo in your "favorites."

Making it More

The Amazing One I (The First) didn't even know I was snapping pictures of her at that moment - she's a great candid sober model.

While I liked this shot a lot it seemed that there was something that needed to be done to make it...more.  Does it work for you or should I have done something differently?

SOOC

Crop

Bring out her eyes using a Vivid Light blending mode

Coffeeshop Denim - Faded / painted over all the "whites" that came through blue

PW Slight Light at 30%

Futile Attempts - Updated

Still no functioning PSE8.  Yesterday was a day filled with a series of futile attempts to fix the situation.  Tomorrow is Fix It Friday at I Heart Faces and I want to participate! 

If the Organizer module of PSE8 is functioning but the Editor module is not, would you not assume that this is an Adobe issue, not a computer issue?  Or maybe I should say it's a software issue not a hardware issue. 

Three times I attempted a system restore on my computer, deleted/uninstalled multiple software applications - even my Norton security, deleted all the actions & textures I'd downloaded, just on the off-chance that any of these things were interfering with the functioning of the PSE8 Editor.  It was all to no avail. 

Bottom line?  I'm still unable to process photos.  Adobe, because they've been unable to resolve the issue, wants me to contact Dell.  Working with Adobe customer support has been bittersweet.  The people (yes, more than one) I speak with are courteous but their accents are so strong that I repeatedly have to say, "excuse me, could you repeat that?" not to mention that all of their fix attempts have been unsuccessful.

My final attempt to remedy this on my own is to install PSE8 on our other (read "older") computer.  We'll see if that works.

What am learning through all of this?  Definitely persistence, and maybe a bit more about computers too.

update

PSE8 is installed & working on the old computer but it's not pretty and it's not easy.  It's a bit like going from a sleek new car to a model T.  The screen is much smaller and I have to do a lot of mousing so I can feel that in my wrist.  Yep, I'd complain if I was being hung with a new rope... :o)