Our photos are centred around the theme of celebration this week for Texture Tuesday, using at least one of Kim’s textures. I chose the latest one from her – “Look-up”.
I am celebrating how much I have learned from Kim, Nancy and Bonnie, about photos, photo art and textures – plus the joy of play in Photoshop. To anyone who doesn’t consider this an art form, have a go. You’ll be surprised just how easily you can lose yourself in a virtual palette of shades, tones, moods and atmosphere… I dare you!!
I took this photo with my mobile phone. The clematis sits on my front window sill behind a net curtain which is quite dense, to give us a little privacy! I tucked the curtain behind the plant to get a decent shot and when I started to process it, the magic of Kim’s linen-like texture was revealed.
I copied the image first and used screen @70% to make the flowers stand out. When I added ‘look-up’, it made the curtain fade away completely – wonderful! I copied this layer 3 more times and used overlay, colour burn and multiply all at 100%. I did use a mask on the final layer to ‘clean up’ the flowers a little.
To that I added a layer of Nancy’s texture with text – colour burn 100% – and erased it from the flower heads…
The font is “chiller”.
You can find lots of wonderfully textured photos over at TT – the Cafe.
Altered Art & Stuff... 
Becs
/ December 6, 2011Beautiful, love your use of texture. The colours are gorgeous.
friendlymedia01
/ December 6, 2011you really did good work. Beautiful flowers & textures.
Valerie
/ December 6, 2011Beautiful edit. V
Ruth West
/ December 6, 2011I love the processing, I have a few of these plants on my window sills too, they’re amazing aren’t they?
johanna
/ December 6, 2011what a cooooool color, and i love the “chiller” font also!
kathy
/ December 6, 2011I really like the brilliance of that pink popping from the texture. Lovely.
Kathy
Synnöve
/ December 6, 2011Wonderful texture work !
Amy
/ December 6, 2011Very pretty!
Pat
/ December 6, 2011Lovely!
Pat
/ December 6, 2011Love what you’ve done here – your choice of textures is perfect!
Fergiemoto
/ December 6, 2011Beautiful! Your texture works very well!
kareninkenai
/ December 7, 2011What lovely processing. Beautiful. Thank you. {visiting today from TT}
sharonodegaard1
/ December 7, 2011Oh, so lovely! I appreciate your explanation of how you used texture. I still have much to learn. You are an inspiration!
Marit
/ December 8, 2011I like the flower a lot more now that you worked with it, as in real life! (Too ‘plastic’ and too ‘pink’ for me.. teehee…)