It’s here! It’s here! The most wonderful tiiiiiiime of the year!
Which I’d normally tell you was right behind opening day of the NFL season and the day when $5/15lb bags of Rio Star grapefruit reappear in my grocery store. But since the latter happened this week and we celebrated appropriately – move over, football!
So here’s “Scary Elsa” to introduce the first of our 2014 holiday giveaways, dedicated to The Picture Taker: a Photography subscription on the Adobe Creative Cloud, which includes the latest releases of Lightroom and Photoshop.
In my Photo Friday series, I covered how I used Lightroom to edit my photos.
In the 8+ years (!) that I’ve been flooding the internet with pictures of my desserts and dinners, I’ve tried out different photo editing software. My workflow has changed over the years, even since I wrote the last “How I Edit” column, but what hasn’t changed: I have yet to find anything as user-friendly and compact as Lightroom 2 3 5.
Lightroom is the ultimate photography assistant. I can cook up a fantabulous pumpkin butter bundt cake, I can style a pretty decent shot, and I can take a pretty darn good photo. But what I need help doing? Breathing the life and vibrancy and detail back into the output file so that it looks to you exactly how it looked to me . Sitting in my living room floor.
Right before I ate a slice of it for breakfast.
We have paired up with the fine folks at Adobe to bring one of you guys a year-long subscription to the Adobe Creative Cloud Photography Plan, with which you’ll be able to use Lightroom 5 (and 6, when it is released next spring!) as well as Photoshop CC to edit and create your own delicious masterpieces.
To enter the giveaway, simply answer the following question in the comments below: What is your very favorite animated Christmas program to watch during the holidays?
Mine is “Year Without a Santa Claus” and I am solidly on #TeamSnowMiser.
Update: Congratulations to Tara with comment #40!
Good luck!
The fine print:
– Maximum of one (1) entry per person.
– Giveaway ends at midnight (Texas time, y’all) on Friday, November 28.
– Winner will be selected by one of those cold, soulless, unfeeling random number generator thingies and announced on this post.
– Winners will receive a 1-Year Photography Subscription from Adobe (value ~$125).
– This prize in this giveaway is supplied direct by Adobe.
– Prize must be claimed within 7 days or it will be forfeited.
– Official giveaway rules can be found here.
Rudolf the red nosed reindeer… LOVE!
We love the Grinch cartoon in our household. Thanks for an awesome giveaway!
Mine is the same as yours…The Year Without a Santa Claus. My 15 year old daughter and I watched it last night!
How the Grich Stole Christmas!
Charlie browns christmas
The Year Without a Santa Clause has always been my favorite, I look forward to it every year!!!
Rudolf the red nosed reindeer!
Charlie Brown Christmas (Frosty the Snowman is a very close second!)
love How The Grinch Stole Christmas
Santa Claus with Tim Allen
My favorite is actually a Swedish tradition. We watch kalle anka (donald duck) which is basically all these old disney cartoons in Swedish.
Growing up we didn’t watch any animated Christmas movies but when I married my husband, his family had Charlie Brown Christmas on a constant rotation at Christmastime so that has become the background music of the season for me
I don’t watch too many cartoons, even at Christmas, but if I had to choose, I’d have to say “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”. I still love that one 🙂
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
I would probably say Santa Claus is coming to town! Love all those old animated ones!
ooooh that’s a hard one! Probably Year Without a Santa Clause for me too!
We didn’t watch animated holiday movies growing up, so I will go cliche and say Frozen. It might be a new tradition!
The Grinch!
The Grinch!
We always watched The Grinch Who Stole Christmas…such a great film.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer has always been a favorite in my family, though the Grinch is a close second!
I don’t know if it totally counts but I love Muppet Christmas Carol!! One of the best.
Its gotta be the Grinch who stole Christmas for me.
Elf!
Gotta love The Grinch!
Hard choice. I have to say Christmas Vacation.
I love Charlie Browns Christmas…but I also Love Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer..both are classics that are a must every Holiday ….It’s not Christmas unless you watch them both…
I’d have to say the super old animated, original Rudolph!
The classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
The Grinch!
Charlie Brown Christmas
Rudolph is my all time favorite!
The Grinch! It’s the best!
Ok so it’s not technically a holiday movie, but I love watching all the the Harry Potter movies this time of year. Or Love Actually or Bridget Jones’ Diary which aren’t holiday movies either, but I love them.
I love Charlie Brown Christmas 🙂 A classic!
How the Grinch Stole Christmas. It’s so cute, but with such a great message!
The Grinch–watched it until we were old enough to watch Christmas Vacation:)
The Grinch… non-animated-definitely Elf
Rudolph!
All of them! But probably It’s a Wonderful Life
Oops! Animated 🙂 Rudolph for sure!
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer!!!
Same as yours!
I’ve never seen the year without Santa Claus. I need to add that to my list. But I love The Grinch!
Charlie Brown Christmas!
My favorite animated holiday movie growing up was the 1970 animation of “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town”, where you follow a young Kris Kringle on his journey to becoming Santa Claus.
rudolph! my all time favorite.
We will be watching plenty of the old school Rudolph in our house!
I can’t decide between Charlie Brown and Rudolph. They always take me back to childhood!
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Those old fashioned animated or stop- motion (whatever they are) are just adorable.
It’s not Christmas season until I watch the animated How the Grinch Stole Christmas cartoon!
Charlie Brown Christmas – it completes the trilogy that begins with “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!”
Nightmare Before Christmas, which spans all holidays Oct-Dec. 🙂
There are so many great ones, but none can top a Charlie Brown Christmas!
A Christmas Story!
oops…just realized you said animated! I’ll go with the Grinch.
The Grinch!
Rudolph for sure! Although Nightmare Before Christmas is a very close second.
Wow! Narrow it down to one?! I can’t, no way. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer or How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Both have obviously been mentioned many times already, both classics, and both have the feel good ending(as they should). Saying I like one more than the other, I just can’t do it.
The original animated Grinch!!
Charlie Brown Christmas!
frosty the snowman 😉
Awesome giveaway! It’s a toss up of Frosty the Snowman or Grinch
Charlie Brown Christmas
Love Frosty and Charlie Brown Christmas!
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer!!! 🙂
Nightmare Before Christmas!
Frosty!
Muppet Christmas Carol. Love it.
mickey’s christmas carol
Rudolph for sure!!!
Rudolph!!
I love how the grinch stole christmas!
Rudolph the red nosed reindeer!
Definitely Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer!
I like Charlie Brown.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
The Grinch!
santa clause is coming to town!
How the Grinch stole Christmas!
i’ve always loved rudolph! yukon cornelius rules. 🙂
For me, it’s Rudolph. I just love it!
The Night Before Christmas is one I always enjoy watching every season.
Annabelle’s Wish. 🙂
I Love Prep & Landing – so cute!
I’m not sure it’s animated but I love the muppets christmas carol
Nightmare Before Christmas!
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
The Grinch!
Bad Santa… sometimes you just need to laugh.
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus!
Rudolph (or the Grinch)!
Charlie Brown Christmas!!!
I’d have to say Charlie Brown Christmas
My favorite is Rudolph!
Charlie Brown’s Christmas for me!
I loved The Grinch!
Frosty the Snowman!!
how The grinch stole Christmas
I have to go with “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!”
How the Grinch Stole Christmas is hands down my favorite. Never gets old!
My favorite animated show is Santa Claus is Coming to Town but my favorite song is the Heat Miser and Snow Miser song. After watching this video it will be stuck in my head for days!
i know it Isn’t animated but I love Elf!
FROZEN DUH (jk)
I like to watch Arthur Perfect Christmas. =)
It’s probably not the usual one most people think of but I love Ziggy’s Gift.
Charlie Brown Christmas for sure. We watch it every year!
It used to be the original Grinch, but now it might be Polar Express 🙂
Charlie Brown!
Grinch!
I love the old old old Night Before Christmas with the mice
Rudolph the Red Nosed reindeer
I think it would be A Charlie Brown Christmas
Rudolph the red nosed reindeer!
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
don’t know, guess I would say the night before Christmas.
my all-time favorite is Rudolph the red nose reindeer
Matt all-time favorite is Rudolph the red nose reindeer
Rudolph!
Charlie Brown’s Christmas
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
I am in the minority but I always hated the old stuff. I do love Shrek the Halls though.
The Grinch
Mr Magoo’s Christmas Carol
Rudolph the red nose reindeer
Frosty the Snowman
The Grinch :). Thank you for the opportunity!
Nightmare before Christmas….
The old school Rudolph!
Charlie Brown!
We love to watch the Charlie Brown Christmas special.
The Grinch and Nightmare before Christmas
Rudolph!