Happy Friday the 13th!  Not a day I fret about for me… it has been more a good day in my family than something to worry about…  Today I am showing a photo that asked to be taken and what I have done with it in Photoshop Elements.

I woke early one morning this week with an achy body that wasn’t happy, and when walking to the kitchen for pain pills, I looked out the front door and this is what I saw….

The fog was pretty thick and  the Phlox in the garden seemed to glow, so I grabbed the camera and took a few photos.  The fog gives a mysterious look to things as it hides the expanse of lawn beyond the garden.  I then decided to see what would happen if I played a bit with it in Photoshop and what I ended up with is  next…

Foggy Morning

I did a bit of cropping and tweaking of the color saturation to bring out the glow in the Phlox. Then to see what would happen, I played with some effects and liked what I got with the Artistic- Sponge (at whatever the settings were that it defaulted to). I liked how it added some graininess to the photo and intensified the mystery of the fog.  I added the effect to a duplicate layer, so I could then lightly erase some of the graininess from the Phlox, bird houses and a few more flowers to get the brighter colors from the original layer to make them pop a bit more.  I have tons more to learn while playing with my photos in Photoshop Elements, but at least the playing I am doing is something that is getting me doing something creative more often now. Maybe a few little quilts will be inspired by my playing with the photos…

Tags: andrusgardens, flower art friday, flowers, gardens, inspirations, nature, sue andrus

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