Monday, October 20, 2008

Welcome!



Welcome!
to our new meme, SEPIA SCENES. For a long time I've been thinking about another meme to accompany RUBY TUESDAY and I think I've got it!

On Thursday of every week ( actually it will be the night before) I will post a photo in sepia. It will be anything - a landscape, a portrait, a city scene, a country scene - ANY photo that I've taken but it will be in SEPIA.

You then can post a SEPIA photo anytime during the week. When you post your photo, you'll then come back here and sign Mr. Linky so that I and the other participants can go see your photo.

What do you say? Do you like the idea?

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SEPIA can be produced very easily in many digital cameras or it can be produced using photo editing software.

Software, such as Photoshop, Photo Elements, The GIMP (free online download), offers control over the sepia achieved (there is no single color known as “sepia”—the term covers a range of yellow and red mixtures). Simpler photo-editing software usually has an option to sepia tone an image in one step.

More sophisticated software tends to implement sepia tones using the duotone feature.

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And if you think you need help producing a sepia-toned photo I'll help you.

This coming Thursday (or at 5 o'clock EST Wednesday evening) I'll post a sepia photo and simple directions for creating SEPIA photos.

This is going to be so much fun! I hope you'll join me!

Click the Mr. Linky below, sign in, and leave a comment if you think you might like to join or if you have any questions...

theteach




23 comments:

Anonymous said...

Do I like your idea?? I love it!! I'd love to learn more about the sepia pictures. My cameras has this feature but I haven't tried it yet, it will be fun to do it in a meme!

 gmirage said...

I'm in! I miss the darkroom and making black and white prints..so Id love this meme too! ;-)

me ann my camera said...

Yes, I like sepia and also there is no other meme that I contribute to on Thursday. Good idea I think!
ann

Carletta said...

I so worried what day it would be -ta-da - Thursday is perfect!
Love the idea Mary.

EG CameraGirl said...

Very cool idea, Mary. Hmmmm. Now I have to check out my photo stash to see if I can find the perfect sepia subject. ;-)

Anonymous said...

I'm in!! :P

Babs (Beetle) said...

Lovely idea. Can we use really old photos too? I have lots of old B/W photos.

Dianne said...

I'm in too!!

Especially now that I have the separate photo blog I can still rant and participate in photo projects too LOL

my favorite part of sepia is deciding what scenes look best in sepia.

I love when sepia enhances a soft scene or makes something look older

Brava !!

Jan said...

I'll give it a try, too.

Askew To You said...

I love the idea. I just put some sepia portraits of my family on my new blog Chase Your Bliss. I will link to them on Thursday. Fun! Thanks Mary.

Sunshinelene said...

I like the idea and i want to join. I just hope i won't miss any memes that i join coz they are too many already.

Hope tojoin the first posting on Thursday. :)

Sherrie said...

Hi!
I'm so glad you are starting this meme. I love Sepia photos. Brings back lots of memories and makes some new ones. Count me in! Take Care!!

Sherrie

Robin said...

Great idea!

Kaylia Metcalfe said...

Yay! Looking forward to this, thanks Teach :)

MyMaracas said...

Sounds like fun! I don't know how to do it, but I always up for learning something. I'll be back Thursday to check it out.

Pea in a Pod said...

I love this Meme! I'm so in:)

Yen

judi/Gmj said...

Got It looking forward to this , using picasa for editing. :D

'anniniput' said...

I love sepia and i would love to join this meme... so looking forward to post my very first tomorrow..

thanks so much!

Ria said...

yey! a new meme!!!! i've always loved sepia photos...i have the perfect one in mind already!!! can't wait for wednesday!!!

Thumbelina said...

Hi Mary - is it ok to join the sepia scenes post and at the same time be joining the monochrome meme? I would obviously link to you also. :)
Thanks.

Inday said...

Hi Mary,

Now I found you again. Thanks for the invite extended long time ago. My daughter has lots of sepias taken that she left with me. This will be the right opportunity for me to showcase them on her behalf as she is not much into computing she calls 'waste of time'. Well, she is young and her world is in the real world not in cyberworld. Fair dinkum!

Next week, I'll be posting my first entry. Thought this is good!

Stacey said...

sounds like a great idea...I'm in!

Edelweiss said...

Fantastic idea! How do I join? Do I just upload a photo in my blog then add the link here?