Friday, May 30, 2008

Em in the Newspaper

On Memorial Day Em ran the Bolder Boulder. Alas, she didn't win the race and collect the prize money however she did get the second best thing - Her picture in the newspaper! The photographer obviously wasn't very good and didn't quite get her in focus but I have done my best to make her stand out.


As you can see I am pretty much a pro at editing photos. It only took two free hand paint brush attempts in both Photo Shop and Corel to convince me that I should go back to software that I know. I had to use Word to put the fancy boarder and red circle on the picture, then I didn't want to post a word document so I had to use Microsoft One Note to copy the picture into a picture format, then I was back to Corel to convert the funky format to the friendly JPEG.
So yeah, no problem getting this post up.

7 comments:

Jen said...

Way to go Emily! You made it into the newspaper, that is an accomplishment. I'm sure the race was good too :)

Kristen said...

Nice! I'm extremely jealous!

Katie said...

Next time:

Bring the photo into Powerpoint
Draw a red circle
Shift select both the photo and the circle, then group them into one photo
Right click on the image and "Save as picture"


Much easier.

Anonymous said...

hey hot mama!

Natalee said...

Wait a minute...is that you? I thought you weren't running??? You lied. :)

Anonymous said...

Way to go, Emily! You look terrific.

Please Pass the Green said...

You got 2nd! Em, that's awesome! When did you start running again? Memorial Day I went running for like the first time in like 8 years—I went to the high school track to follow dr.'s orders. I was SO SO SO sore the next day . . . and the next . . and still the next. Ha ha! Somehow we forget we aren't the same person anymore. I'm so impressed with your mad running skills.