Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Tuesday's Tutorial: Easy Fix for Sharpening & Grammar for Scrapbookers

For today's tutorial, I have another quick fix.  This one is for sharpening those photos when the unsharp mask just isn't enough.  I was about to go into a coughing fit at the end of the video, and in my hurry to finish, I forgot the last step: When you are happy with the final result, just merge down (control + E) and save.
You can watch the video here.


And now, here's a bonus Grammar for Scrapbookers lesson!  Yay!
Something I've been seeing a lot of recently is "I's." 
As in, "...a friend of Doug and I's..."
Or, "...Doug and I's house..."
This one just makes me twitchy. 
There is no such word as "I's." 
The possessive of I is either my or mine, depending on its placement in the sentence. 
A quick way to check is to remove the other person's name from the sentence, just like in this post
"This is my house."
"This is Doug's house."
"This is Doug's and my house."

If it sounds awkward, you can always substitute "our" or "ours."
Or, rephrase the sentence completely: "This house belongs to Doug and me."

Thanks for stopping by, and I commend you if you've read all the way through! 

4 comments:

  1. Sorry to hear you are still coughing. :( Thanks for the tutorial and the grammar lesson. :o)

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  2. Just a quick note to let you know that a link to this post will be placed on CraftCrave today [02 Nov 02:00am GMT]. Thanks, Maria

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  3. It just warms my heart when I see someone blog about grammar !!

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  4. Thank you for sharing this tutorial!
    :)

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