I can think of countless ways to waste time online, however this weekend my attention was drawn towards finding a new theme and tweaking it. Though I didn’t have a great reason for needing a new one, there were too many things wrong with the theme I had. It would not allow for anything additional in the header, it was not widget friendly, and every time I edited a post, I would have to fix many funky line changes that would appear. So I found a new theme and went to work on personalizing it for my own likes.

Part of this process was the time consuming, but well worthwhile, hunt for Photoshop tutorials. Having been in love with this software for the past 5 years, I can tell you there is always something new and fun that can be done with it. For example, popping a person or object off the page:

selectively coloring a person or object:

Framing a photo:

or in this case, making your pictures resemble those that came with the original theme:

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I am aware that I should be focusing more of my energy on content than appearance, but since I seem to be lacking in ideas, I thought I would update anyone stopping and let you know that I haven’t dropped off the planet.