Staff Farewell

On May 15, the Kilchzimmer workers gathered together for a meal and say farewell to several staff members leaving Kilchzimmer.

[From Right to Left]
For 14 years, Suzanne Jones was secretary to Roy Harrison, the European Regional Director. She will be returning to N. Ireland.

Paul & Audrey Reid have been with CEF for 43 years and in recent years were serving in Kilchzimmer as head of the European Education Dept.. They will be returning to Spain where they served as missionaries.

The Mayhew family will move to France where Philippe will be the National Director of CEF France. Philippe worked at Kilchzimmer in the Education Dept..

Lizanne Dumigan was head of the Multi-Media Dept. and worked as Administrative assistant to the European Director. She arrived in Kilchimmer during the mid-80s, shortly before we did and worked closely with Sue & I all these years in the Literature production ministry. She was a great asset to the department and will be missed. Lizanne returned to N. Ireland and plans to marry in August.

"Illustrative look" to photos in Photoshop

I've been working (experimenting) on using a series of Photoshop blending, editing, dodge/burn, painting on masks and other layer manipulation methods to make a photo appear more like an illustration. I will refine the process more. This is just an initial "test" I did using a photo of Rebecca taken last week on a hike near our home. I added a slight Sepia tint to this photo "illustration".
I created a custom Photoshop "action" to help speed up the process for other photos. This opens up more ideas and options for creating visuals besides the more "traditional" tools I've been using.

UPDATED 5/23: Here's two more examples with some refinements to the process. photo 1, photo 2