Photoshop Honors

There is nothing in this world that frustrates, tickles, infuriates, and surprises me like Adobe Photoshop. For those of you who have used this program, and I mean really used this program, you know what I mean. You can do amazing things with Photoshop, if you know how to use it. Aye, there's the rub. If you know how to use it. It has taken me 5 years-yes, FIVE YEARS- to get to the point for me to say "Yep, I can use Photoshop." Here is something I'm most proud of-

In May, my Grammie turned 80. She is a wonderful woman of God, and I was excited to hear the family decided to throw her a large party. My mom wanted to honor her in some tangible way, with a gift or a plaque. She mentioned that there was a movie in the 70's called The Coalminer's Daughter, one of which my grandmother is. Here is the original poster of the movie:

My grandmother was a WAC (Women's Army Core), which is where she met my Pop-Pop, who was a Military Policeman. Here is her Army picture:

So, I recreated the poster using Photoshop. If you click on it, you can see that even down to the "rating" of the movie is personalized to my grandmother. I think she really loved it- I'm so glad it turned out well!

Now, this month, my Pop-Pop turns 80! So, the fam wanted something to honor him as well. This is his MP picture- isn't he handsome?!:

But, there was a bit of a problem. There is a severe lack of 1950's MP movies, and that's what I wanted. So, I sort of invented one..."Our Singing Sergeant." You see, my pop-pop was part of the "Singing Sergeant" group while he was in the service. But I needed a tagline. My mom tells the story that when Grammie wanted something to be fixed around the house, my Pop retorted with "I'm not a fixer-upper, I'm a lover!" So, add your own plot, but it sure has a happy ending!