Elust #114

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Photo courtesy of Rebel’s Notes

Welcome to Elust 114–

The only place where the smartest and hottest sex bloggers are featured under one roof every month. Whether you’re looking for sex journalism, erotic writing, relationship advice or kinky discussions it’ll be here at Elust. Want to be included in Elust #115? Start with the rules, come back February1st to submit something and subscribe to the RSS feed for updates!  

~ This Month’s Top Three Posts ~

~ Featured Post (Molly’s Picks) ~

~Readers Choice from Sexbytes ~


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Reflective

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This was one of the photos I took while trying to capture light blurs for the ‘bokeh’ prompt in December.

I was originally saving this shot for February Photo Fest, but I decided to use it as a how-to example for a photo editing tutorial instead.

So for those of you who are curious (or who are thinking of participating in FebPhotoFest but are feeling daunted):

To see the steps I took to create the version of this image that you see here – or to see some online photo editing basics that I generally find useful/helpful/amazing/not-too-difficult – please see the tutorial I posted yesterday. 🙂

Sinful Sunday

Basic Photo Editing for the Enthusiastic but Clueless

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How To Polish Up Your Pics

So with February right around the corner, and therefore February Photo Fest standing right at the curb (flashing the oncoming traffic), I thought I’d put together a brief photography tutorial for those of you who may be interested. For the purpose of simplicity, I am going to focus on a single (free!) online photo editing system: Lunapic.

Step One: Load Photo

From the Lunapic home page, click ‘browse’ to upload your photo. I will be working with this photo:

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Morning Fog

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The grass is asleep
under its sheet of frost,
covered in
a blanket of fog wisping threadbare
under the sun’s
stolid gaze.

Like me, the earth prefers her beauty sleep.

Even the traffic today is slow to wake.

Crawling along a country road,
tires gripping gravel slick,
we reluctantly inch
forward
into day.

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