So here we are - complete with a recipe walk through, video, and all new photos!Īnyway, the memories of that bread were so vivid, when that Pysanky post brought them up, that I decided to get the original recipe from my grandmother, and make it myself for the first time. Lately, I’ve been preparing for Easter celebration - baking up a few variations on hot cross buns (I’ll post those shortly), and I decided it was time to update my post on this slightly sweet egg bread. We’d have to wait until after the egg hunt part of our Easter celebrations was over, but that traditional sweet bread was absolutely my favourite part of Easter morning.Įvery year, I looked forward to that first slice - a citrussy, delicious bread. We’d all head over to my grandmother’s place for our yearly Easter meal, and there’d be traditional paska bread waiting for us. Mary would bake up her family recipe for the traditional Easter bread every year. Today’s 365 post: There’s nothing quite like local peaches.I may not come from a Ukrainian family, but growing up in Winnipeg - which is FULL of Ukrainian people - the delicious foods from central Europe definitely played a huge part in my childhood.Īs I mentioned in my " How to make Pysanky" blog post, my absolute favorite part of Easter - growing up - was my grandma’s neighbour’s Easter bread, called Paska. I just lurve Picasa and want to share it with you. If you don’t already have Picasa, you can download it for free. Fortunately, you know how to fix that now. Your camera will see the dark colors and think that it needs to compensate by letting lots of light in, and your picture will turn out too bright. Instead, to fix this picture I moved the shadows slider to the right until I was happy with it.Įven if you have a point and shoot and you can’t manually control the exposures (and thus screw up a photo like I did), you may run into a problem like this when you’re shooting a dark subject, like something with a lot of black or dark blue (this happens to me all the time when I’m shooting food on my black dishes). Since this picture has too much in the way of fill light and highlights, we don’t want to mess with those sliders. If you want a little bit more control over this process, click on the Tuning tab on the left side of your screen, and you’ll be presented with several sliders. Just click it, and Picasa will adjust your picture’s exposure for you. On the left side of your screen, on the Basic Fixes tab, there’s an Auto Contrast button. Just click on the thumbnail of your picture, and that will open it up, ready for you to edit. There’s a very, very easy way to do this in Picasa. If I hadn’t, though, I’d have needed to fix the overexposed ones. This was perfect for indoors, but outside, this setting produced a washed out, overexposed picture.įortunately, I noticed this before long, so I managed to shoot some pictures that were properly exposed. Because I am just THAT organized.īefore I took this photo of my nephew outdoors, I was shooting indoors in a room with a white background, so I’d adjusted my exposure up a few stops. Really, underexposed pictures are a more common problem, but I don’t have material for that post yet, so we’re tackling a less common problem first. Today I’m going to show you how to fix an overexposed picture. You can always access them in the Picasa category. If you missed the earlier installments in this series, worry not. Because we’re all about saving money around these parts. This post is part of a (very) irregular series about using Picasa, a free (whee!) photo editing software.
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