Digital Decorating

Have I mentioned lately that I LOVE Photoshop Elements?  (Well, I love all things Photoshop. But while I have the Creative Suite at work, at home I have the more limited but extremely useful Elements.) 

So anyway, art.com is having a great sale this week on their art prints (read: posters).  I want two pieces for my dining room where I currently have these cool but way too small vintage French ads.  So now I have a deadline… the thrifty (read: very cheap) shopper inside me wants to order before the sale ends this Friday.  But quick decisions are not my forte.  For 3+ years I have been toying with paint color choices for my living room.   My friend Karen says that, when it comes to choosing a paint color, I have “paralysis by analysis.”  Probably true. 

PHOTOSHOP TO THE RESCUE!

Thank God for technology.  Here are the new prints I selected, placed in my dining room via the wonders of digital decorating.  (If you want to try this to satisfy your own sick obsession with decorating or gardening, simply bring in your background image, add a blank layer, place your new element and resize it accordingly, and add a drop shadow to make it look realistic.)  Et voila!   Decision accomplished.  I’m buying the prints tonight!

Here’s my digital dining room…

Digital Dining Room 1

Digital Dining Room 2