I have been spending lots of time in the gardens the past few weeks, so I haven’t done more blogging like I had planned… Here is another Photo Art Friday post… The photo used here is one I took of the last roses of last year. The prompt from the Pixel Dust Photo Art blog was to modify a photo to look vintage. I have been doing a little more playing with Photoshop Elements, and have been playing with layers and more. There are lots of free textures available to be used to create various effects, but I prefer to try to do my own thing if I can. I have been taking some purposefully blurred photos and others of random things to use as overlays.
Last Roses of 2011
The result of my playing this week is above… I lowered the saturation of the photo and then added the paint daubs effect with the sparkle brush. After that I used a texture image I created, then allowed some of the flowers to show through more with a layer mask. I have so much more to learn…
Last Roses of 2011 Original
The photo above is the original photo of the roses… It was taken after an early snow was melting, causing large drops of water to hang on the petals.
Portulaca with Dew
Above is another photo I have been playing with… It was of a Portulaca flower covered in dew, with a photo of a blue Iris also covered in dew with a macro lens to catch the shimmer of the dewdrops out of focus as a layer over it. I also played with the paint daubs effect with the sparkle brush… It definitely changed the look of the photo…
There will be lots more photos taken in the coming days and weeks, and I am sure I will be playing with photoshop more, too….
