What Would you Do (#74)

[jiminyClickit]

Second butterfly needed help, so surgery was performed:

From copy of original, butterfly is selected, edges erased and smudged.

- Wing is selected, placed on separate layer, hue moved towards red.
- Contrast and saturation are increased.
- Copy of refined wing is flipped, placed right of first wing.
- Stomach, thorax, head, eyes and antennae are duplicated the same way.
- Parts are reassembled, layers merged to make solid butterfly
- Back to original, sections are selected, arranged, flipped, blurred, to form b/g.
- Butterfly is copied/pasted 7 times, each smaller, darker, and more blurred than the one before.
- Each of these copies is arranged as if a succession of flight images.
- Right wing and left side of stomach are slightly darkened.
- Dark vignette added to lower-right corner

[KatyDid]

I just cannot get the PP bug..no success.
So, I'm going with....Fluorescent Chalk Photo Effect.
(sigh) I know...keep practicing....

[Teewinot]

Sela, cool colors!

jiminy, the sense of movement you created is incredible! Great work.

[starrylaurie]

I simply played with some new brushes on this one! I inverted the color of the butterflies, flipped one, erased some... honestly, I don't remember everything. I just played! I wanted more of a "mothman" look...

[PollyK]

Using a combination of quick mask and lasso toolI seperately copied the wing, body and eye/feelers onto their own layers. Duplicated each layer and flipped horizontally. Aligned corresponding layers and used a soft edge erazer and about a 38% blur tool to tidy up rough edges then merged the duplicated layers with their corresponding layer. (body was also rotated and warped). Aligned all body parts then merged. Achieved colour with hue and saturation, colorise and channel mixer adjustments. Cloned out the butterfly on the background layer and applied a colour pencil filter. I also saved the bulerfly as a png file to use in next pic, where i used the magic wand on a random spot on the butterfly, moved the selection to a new document with a blach background that had a low opacity-high scale gradient and this is the result.