Reflections Unfurling: Before and After

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3.2.13

MAMA..........he's touching me!

As good as it gets ~

Before the fight began!

14.1.13

I can see clearly now

in spite of the fog ~

a picture out the car window on a recent road trip - I wasn't driving, so I could see clearly

In Photoshop: The Recipe

Without altering the image, I duplicated it

applied Lens Flare filter - movie prime.

With soft light blend mode and opacity adjusted to my satisfaction.

Same picture, same filter

Screen blend mode

Opacity adjusted.

Now, back to the original picture

with Color Burn blend mode.

It's all in how you see it ~

Live within a fog or outside of it ~

If you happen to be in a fog, enjoy the moment!

12.8.12

At the end of the day

Rad Lab application: Lith-E-Yum

Rad Lab application: Flare Up/Faded, Troy

Rad Lab application: Lights On X2, Lights Out

Rad Lab application: Rusty Cage

Rad Lab application: Flirt, Cinnamon Toast, Montecito

Lobster boats coming in at the end of the day: Theresa's original picture.

Theresa and her family had a delightful 2012 vacation in and around the Northeastern United States and Canada. This is just one of the many pictures she shared in her Facebook album. While I had fun in Photoshop this morning, at the end of the day the original picture of the lobster boats coming in is the best ever.

5.6.12

Forgotten

Photoshop Recipe:

Filter: Distort: Ocean Ripple

Filter: Gaussian Blur

Levels Adjustment

A simple object: forgotten and aged: a copper planter left by a tombstone: behind chains that can't be crossed: Simply Forgotten

26.4.12

Isn't she a lovely.....

...Little Abbi Girl

The process: In Photoshop, start with a new blank file...white background.

Pulled Abbi's photo from my album and erased some of the 'stuff'. Played around with the lens flare filter to

further de-emphasize her surroundings.

layered Abbi's altered picture in the blank file

Pulled this picture from my albums and layered it on top of Abbi's picture. Adjusted opacity...erased the flowers from her face. Now isn't she a lovely in the flower garden.....

20.3.12

What would happen if.....

....we put less emphasis on the building itself?

and more about the peace that comes from within

Thoughts Before and After:

4.3.12

Playing with Grunge

Nancy Donaldson.....aka All Pulped Out....makes grunge textures and I like every one of them.

Here are the cats with Nancy's Grunge No. 10. Nancy makes them free to use, so go get your own.
My use of Nancy's textures aren't quite as flamboyant as hers.....but

After Grunge No. 10 application

I'm enjoying the subtle blue coloration the texture is giving to the picture.

Before Grunge No. 10 application

A houseboat on the Tiber River in Rome....before

Houseboat on the Tiber River in Rome after Grunge Nos. 4 and 10 were applied.

16.1.12

monday

the finish

from the start....I like pulling one little bit out of a picture and making it magic with it!

9.1.12

It's pouring rain but, frankly, Charlotte........

I just wanted the hoola-hoops around the neck of the horse! It was a combined effort.....to get these before and after's completed: and while I was working, the rain started....but frankly, Charlotte, I really don't ......

4.1.12

FELINE

Before.....see what I have to contend with!

After....the other cat is edited out of my face!

3.1.12

Water Fog Foothills Sky

Water Fog Foothills Sky - Before

Water Fog Foothills Sky - After I bleached it out - just a bit

Linked to The Creative Exchange

20.11.11

Sasanqua

Good - but keep going

better: warm and sepia - but keep going

best: cropped to perfection.

as in wearing too little clothes! it's best left to the imagination.....

6.11.11

Seattle Skyline

Really!

One doesn't have to be genius to follow me....but it helps:

4.11.11

Be creative: it may be the sign of the times

A sign of the times: Be creative! Cite-Creations dot french

While browsing through my picture album "Quebec 2010" I ran across this sign:

and

then decided to go to the www cite that was on the building sign and sure enough, there is such a site and they do create murals:

on large buildings

beautiful

so that's what prompted me to be just a little photoshop creative this morning

by first taking the picture,

transforming it just a tad,

adding a radlab photo action (or two),

then a final touch.....

a jerry jones tree brush barely made it on the left!

I wish
I had
more
hours
in my day.....to play

31.10.11

The Approach:

From far away~

30.10.11

Altered with RadLab! Yes

Before

Butterfly tasting a pink zinnia

Free 30 day RadLab demo - a photoshop action: download from Get Totally Rad here. I probably won't be buying this program, but it will be fun for the next 30 days!

16.10.11

On the Waterfront:

Waterfront sign cropped and pinched!

Inverted and charcoal-ed

cropped even more, inverted, gradient added

Seattle waterfront street sign: original photo with which to play ~

Reflections Unfurling