Summer Show Off {Week 3}

Thanks for linking up this week! Check out the favorites and link up your very own edited photo below!

My Favorites Captured / Tickle My Whimsy

Check out this week's favorites! Make sure to vote for your favorites starting Monday, but be sure to link up below first!

This is your official invitation to Show Off what YOU are shooting this Summer...or last winter - whenever - just as long as you shot it!

The rules are simple. Here's how it works:

•  Post (on your blog or Flickr) any photo taken and edited by you!
•  Sharing something about how you accomplished your finished photo is strongly encouraged, but not mandatory. 
• Before and After shots are great too!
• Add our Button (found below) and link back to the Edit Me Challenge blog. 
• Come by every Wednesday and link up your edit.
• Look around, comment, get to know each other and come back on Monday to vote for your favorite! 
• You can also send your readers/facebook friends/twitter followers over to vote for you too!
• The link up will be open Wednesday through Sunday.
• Voting will be Monday and Tuesday.
• Favorites will be shared on Wednesday in the new link up!
• Your photo may be featured on the blog or on our Facebook  page! By linking up you are giving us permission to re-post your photo. 
• Most of all, have fun! We can't wait to see what you've got! 

<a href="http://editmechallenge.blogspot.com/p/emc-summer-show-off.html" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Edit Me" src="http://i1204.photobucket.com/albums/bb414/stephaniesclark/summershowoff2.jpg" width="200" /></a>
We'd really appreciate you using our button on your sidebar or in your posts to help promote this challenge! If you grab the code above it will post as a 200x200 button (not as large  as it looks here). You can also adjust the size as needed by finding the coding width="200" and changing it to a size you'd like!

Summer Show Off {Week 2}

So happy to see all of you guys link up last week! We've got some serious talent here and it looks like a great summer for everyone! I also want to say I'm sorry for the confusion at the beginning of the Challenge..I wasn't aware that you cannot vote simultaneous with adding your photo with inlinkz - that's a linky tools thing I guess! So I'm changing it up a little this week. Enter your photo starting on Wednesday, entries will close on Sunday night like they normally do for the challenge, then you will be able to vote for favorites Monday - Tuesday. Sound good? You will be featured in the next post if you have the most votes, so send your friends over to vote for you! 

Here are some of my favorites from last week!

Each of these have a great tutorial or a great story in the post so be sure to check them out : 

Fotoplicity / From Sarah's Camera / Mixed Molly

This is your official invitation to Show Off what YOU are shooting this Summer...or last winter - whenever - just as long as you shot it!

The rules are simple. Here's how it works:

•  Post (on your blog or Flickr) any photo taken and edited by you!
•  Sharing something about how you accomplished your finished photo is strongly encouraged, but not mandatory. 
• Before and After shots are great too!
• Add our Button (found below) and link back to the Edit Me Challenge blog. 
• Come by every Wednesday and link up your edit.
• Look around, comment, get to know each other and come back on Monday to vote for your favorite! 
• You can also send your readers/facebook friends/twitter followers over to vote for you too!
• The link up will be open Wednesday through Sunday.
• Voting will be Monday and Tuesday.
• Favorites will be shared on Wednesday in the new link up!
• Your photo may be featured on the blog or on our Facebook  page! By linking up you are giving us permission to re-post your photo. 
• Most of all, have fun! We can't wait to see what you've got! 

<a href="http://editmechallenge.blogspot.com/p/emc-summer-show-off.html" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Edit Me" src="http://i1204.photobucket.com/albums/bb414/stephaniesclark/summershowoff2.jpg" width="200" /></a>
We'd really appreciate you using our button on your sidebar or in your posts to help promote this challenge! If you grab the code above it will post as a 200x200 button (not as large  as it looks here). You can also adjust the size as needed by finding the coding width="200" and changing it to a size you'd like!

2012 Edit Me Challenge: Summer Show Off!

Welcome to Week 1 of the Edit Me Challenge's Summer Show Off!

So glad you are here! We have made so many connections and developed personal relationships with many of you and can see that you've have done the same with each other. It feels really good to know that we can celebrate the many different styles of photography and editing here. Now, here's your chance to show us what you've got and help us to get to know you a little better! We want YOU to show off YOUR photos!!!

This is your official invitation to Show Off what YOU are shooting this Summer...or last winter - whenever - just as long as you shot it!

The rules are simple. Here's how it works:

•  Post (on your blog or Flickr) any photo taken and edited by you!
•  Sharing something about how you accomplished your finished photo is strongly encouraged, but not mandatory. 
• Before and After shots are great too!
• Add our Button (found below) and link back to the Edit Me Challenge blog. 
• Come by every Wednesday and link up your edit.
• Look around, comment, get to know each other and vote for your favorite! 
• You can also send your readers/facebook friends/twitter followers over to vote for you too!
• The link up will be open Wednesday through Monday and favorites will be shared on the new link up on Wednesday. 
• Your photo may be featured on the blog or on our Facebook  page! By linking up you are giving us permission to re-post your photo. 
• Most of all, have fun! We can't wait to see what you've got! 

<a href="http://editmechallenge.blogspot.com/p/emc-summer-show-off.html" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Edit Me" src="http://i1204.photobucket.com/albums/bb414/stephaniesclark/summershowoff2.jpg" width="200" /></a>

We'd really appreciate you using our button on your sidebar or in your posts to help promote this challenge! If you grab the code above it will post as a 200x200 button (not as large  as it looks here). You can also adjust the size as needed by finding the coding width="200" and changing it to a size you'd like!

Edit Me 2012 Week 26 Winners!

Thank you all so much for doing such a great job editing my little guy! This photo was not an easy task. One thing I looked for and what I always look for in a great portrait are the eyes! This photo was shadowed and he's squinting a little because of the sun - and well good luck getting an 8 month old to keep sun glasses on his face. Also I loved the emphasis on the water and the sparkle it brings to this photo!

Erin Fike Photography

Erin did an awesome job correcting his skin down and just making this a clean photo! 

Sarah from The Stiles Files

Sarah did a great job and adjusting the color too and getting a lot of that red out of his skin and from around his eyes! (he's always rubbing those eyes) She tones she added also brought out the sparkle in the water! 

 My overall winner this week is Mariela - MCRYAN on flickr!

And well I think it's obvious why this is my favorite! I am a sucker for a sunflare - real or artificial - as long as it looks natural. His face is clear the water drops pop and it really is beautiful! Thanks Mariela!

The prize this week is for EVERYONE! Click on the image below to get these Free backgrounds for your blog, button, twitter, etc! Do with them what you like! PLEASE let me know if you use them. I'd really like to see what you do! =) I'd really love it if you head on over and "Like" my  Gray Mornings Photography and Design Facebook Page!

There's a little more. Just to say thanks for so many great weeks of Edit Me I want to offer you guys 50% off anything in my Etsy Shop. Just use code EDITME50. This will be good now through the end of July! 

Don't forget to grab your buttons!

There's no challenge tomorrow as we celebrate Independence Day!

Next week starts the Edit Me Challenge's Summer Show Off! Click HERE for details!