Tulsa Children’s Museum and my Last week with a 5 year old!

tulsadiscovercenterWe stopped by the Tulsa Children’s Museum on Friday which just happened to be one week before my littlest turns 6!

I started taking pictures of my boys the week before their birthday three years ago.

I then had a two year old turning three…

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My almost six year old spent a lot of the time there playing with the boxes they have set up to use like blocks.

He can build things for hours.

windowlight buildingWondering where big brother went?

thereheis destroy destroy2I did inform him he had to help some with the building and not just the destroying.

determined togetherIt seems like my little man has changed overnight.

launch tapeSeriously, six?

Crazy.

buildingagain castleI cannot believe my youngest can build things like this.

It does make his insistence that he cannot pour his own cereal look a little flimsy.

Can’t wait to spend the rest of this week capturing moments with my little man!

How I edit all my photo’s for free ~Part 3 Sepia

It has been a while since I shared one of these!

Go here, for the basic tutorial and here, for black and white conversion.

Okay, here is how I convert an image to sepia using the GIMP.

Screenshot from 2014-01-19 17:41:59Here is my before image.

I love it because it seems so moody.

Yes, I know that is a crazy number of tabs open.

I am really glad my version of GIMP has a single window mode or I would be in trouble!

Screenshot from 2014-01-19 17:42:31Go to Colors/Colourize.

Screenshot from 2014-01-19 17:44:33Change the settings in Colourize to:

Hue 30

Saturation 20(I often set it to 10 or less, I like a very subtle sepia)

Lightness 0(I usually leave lightness at 0 but you can play around with it)

If you want you can add some contrast by doing an overlay, see here on how to do one.

Go to File/Export to save your newly edited picture or hit Ctrl + Shift + E.

And that is it!

 It is so easy!

colorBefore

sepiaAfter