Blog In Transition – Moving

Blog In Transition – Moving

The French Kiss Collections Blog will be moving from WordPress to our Shopify store. In the meantime, apologies for this transitional phase! Why We Are Moving Having a WordPress blog and a Shopify store has proven to be too challenging. I love the power of a WordPress...
Iris Flower With Photoshop Filters

Iris Flower With Photoshop Filters

In the last post, I showed you my set up for photographing an iris flower intended for my designs. In this post, I share my creative Photoshop filter explorations. The Master File I’m not going to go into great detail on my master file preparation –...
Photographing An Iris For Your Designs

Photographing An Iris For Your Designs

When photographing a flower to create a motif for your designs or illustrations, you may need to cheat a bit. Manipulating An Iris For Photography This lovely Iris is from my garden. It was a beautiful flower, but the composition wasn’t quite working for...
I’m Back!

I’m Back!

I can’t believe how long it’s been since I’ve posted here! You know how we sometimes go through rough patches in our lives? Well, 2016 was a humdinger for me with a lot of challenges: personal loss, health issues, life questions, and business...
Picking And Prepping Plants For Photographing

Picking And Prepping Plants For Photographing

A few tips for picking and prepping flowers and plants before photographing them. Includes choosing plants, when to pick, basic clean up, and creative edits. The roses in the featured image above were perfect as is. If I’m walking in the garden and see a...