Most recently Taraz and I completed a photoshop project that we started a few weeks ago.  Since he has been on holiday, he has been teaching me how to use photoshop by adding beautiful quotations to photos that I have taken of flowers from different trips we have been on.  We chose 10 quotations from the first Ruhi series book called ‘Igniting the Heart‘.   We designed them in English and Chinese and decided to get them printed in sets of 10.  Here are a few of my favorites:

As you may have guessed from some of my blogs, I love photography.  I also enjoy finding spiritual and inspirational quotations so I wanted to find a way to combine the two.  For the first time today I experimented with photoshop to see if I could incorporate one of my favorite quotes in a photo I took recently.  If you study the photo, you’ll find a few things about me that you may not have known before.  One is that I love details so naturally I enjoy taking close-ups of nature and flowers in particular.  I also love matching colors!  I had such fun finding the right shade of purple for the words in the quotation to match the photograph (I’m amazed at the array of colors to choose from).  I’m also a bit of a perfectionist (finding the right font and playing around with the size and layout to create the perfect balance was such a pleasure).

I look forward to exploring photoshop further and figuring out some of the more advanced features.  I will be sharing photos and quotes more often as I figure out how to use this powerful tool.  Let me know if you have any tips and how you like the photo/quote combo.  And if you have any favorite quotes, please share them.