What Would You Do (#22)

[jiminyClickit]

xxpinballxx, Thanks

A hundred of my photos have to do with dandelions or something like them. Maybe 90 of them are lit from the upper left, so it just fell into place.

[Nicole]

A moment to regain my breath gave me the time to play with this photo... which I've been wanting to do since I was reminded about using textures in a different thread



What I did was (and potentially all in the wrong order):
Used the unsharp mask to sharpen up the flower
Lightened the picture using levels
Added a texture from TextureKing.com (it was a pink fabric texture)
Changed the hue of the pink layer to something a little more purpley blue (I'd played around with making it green, but I decided on this instead)
Set the blending mode to Vivid Light and the opacity to 50% on the fabric.

Edit: Also tilted the picture by 15 degrees CW, and cropped it Totally forgot about that step.

The end

[shazzt]

These are all so cool - I never would have dreamed that little dandelion could have looked so good.

[PLouie]

Here's my take. A bit of crossprocessing with a vignette and some light paint. The underexposed and overall look was chosen to drive the mood. Hope you guys like it.

[Todd]

[mikem12188]

Originally Posted by PLouie

Here's my take. A bit of crossprocessing with a vignette and some light paint. The underexposed and overall look was chosen to drive the mood. Hope you guys like it.

Very nice work, PLouie

[xxpinballxx]

First one just a caricture sketch adjusted a bit and flexed

Second stab was just a crazy background....dandelions always make me think of hippies....not sure why that is?

[jiminyClickit]

xxpinballxx,

Hippies and dandelions: happy most anywhere they are, sometimes blowin' in the wind, each one unique but similar.

These are unique looks, too.

[peeperita]

my mother board fried over the weekend and i'm just now up and running.....so, forgive my hasty edit.....

i wanted dawn to be breaking.....

duplicated the background, gaussian blur to give it a glow later, set layer to screen......duplicated bg again, brought this layer to the top and set the blending mode to overlay to briing up the colors...merged layers .added a lighting effect from above with a soft yellow spot and set the ambient color to somewhere around orange.....and yup, a crop.....

thanks....

peeper

[MikeM]

You guys have done everything with colors, so I decided to spread a little dandelion seed and multiply the little guy. This is a bit rough, but it was a fun idea.