Colouring photograph tutorials

I did some photo colouring tutorials tonight that I saved years ago back when I was making 100x100 icons on Live Journal. I'm just not sure which is the best ...

This is the original. This photo was taken by myself in New Zealand in 2007.

This is the first colour tutorial I did and it's a lot darker, a lot more blue than the original but it might be too much.

And this is the second colour tutorial I did. It's definitely different than the original, sharper somehow maybe, but not as dramatically changed as the first coloured one. It might be the winner.

The middle photo looks too blue, and buildings aren't usually that colour. I should stick with the last one. I wanted some suggestions but since no-one reads my journal and Facebook doesn't do photo polls I figured it out myself. Go me! Now I can keep doing this in preparation for my Blurb book.

Old journals

I'm feeling a bit depressed today. Depressed as in deflated not as in clinically depressed. Sometimes I think I need a man to make my life great. I know I'll love having a family of my own but I am making my life great, starting next year and possibly even now with my Maritime Museum volunteering and hopefully 2 new jobs. And yet I still wake up feeling like I have nothing to get up for. I don't see my friends as much as I would like. I am jealous when I hear of friends hanging out all the time, but life gets in the way, different schedules and different interests. It makes me sad.

I was reading Something Sweet's blog in bed last night on my phone [HTC Desire] and she posted about LJBook, a website that will save your journal into a PDF file and I'm going to do that, maybe even put it into a book. I'm glad I've got it there, even if it's not as detailed as it could be, regarding surroundings and happenings in the world or what general life consists of. It might be the latter actually. Life now, daily, I read 2 blogs here, those of Something Sweet and Skunkboy Creatures. I play games on Facebook, potter around the house, watch lots of DVD's, mostly seasons, and do not much at all. That's why I'm a bit depressed about it.

One new thing I do like is the Caesar salad from Liveeat. I might get that today before or after getting my RSA reprinted from Drysdale before going to my interview for Pier One at Wrest Point. Sarah said they ask you questions, like what have you done for a customer, so I hope I can wing it. I hope Pier One isn't too fancy. I just need the job to be able to transfer to Sydney.