The cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow,

But children grow up, as I’ve learned to my sorrow.

So quiet down cobwebs; Dust go to sleep!

I’m rocking my baby and babies don’t keep.

~ Ruth Hulbert Hamilton

Sigh… I could eat this little open mouthed boy (I’ll wait a second while you go back and notice that every picture but one shows an open mouthed Owen)……………….. back now? Ok.

Well if you want to get the effect on Owen’s cute little onesie – I’m going to share a secret – it’s 1 white onesie- the same one in every picture.  There are no stickers.

It’s PHOTOSHOPPED!

What will you need to get started?

Go purchase: 

• a baby (adorable preferably)
• a white onesie
• some cute place to take the same photo, in the same spot every month
• Photoshop (Photoshop Elements is the best consumer level Photoshop for a non-pro, with a MUCH prettier price-tag, but still containing plenty of fun options for you to play with…)

So you take your picture and load open it in Photoshop… (mind you I’m showing you Screen Shots from Photoshop CS5, but Elements is basically the same when it comes to the layer options we will be working with…)

Here is what my screen looks like:

1. Create a new layer to work on (create the layer by clicking the where the red arrow is… and you will see the layer appear where the blue arrow is)

2. Now the fun begins.  Choose a color from the color palette that you want the circle and word “month” (or year if you are doing a yearly change).  I choose green.  You will see the color appear on the left hand side at the bottom.

Make sure your new Layer is clicked on and selected (the layer you made in the last step).  Now click on the Brush Tool

Now in the drop down menu choose a Hard Mechanical Round Brush (mine is at 400 pixels – but the size you need will depend on how large your picture is)

With the Opacity at 100% go ahead and put a nice circle on your little one’s shirt!

3. Add your number for the month with the text tool… to change the shape and the direction of the number go to Edit, “Free Transform”… or Ctrl T

Now follow the same to add “Months”

4. Select the two text layers and Layer 1 (hold CTRL to select more than 1), right click on the Layer 1 and click “Merge Layers”

5. Now you want to change the Merged layer from a “Normal Layer” to a “Multiply Layer” (green arrow) and change the Layer Opacity to around 75% (blue arrow).  Play with this  until you like how the shirt looks.

6. Flatten and save!

Voila! You are finished

Did you try out my tutorial? What’d ya think? Any comments or questions?

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