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It's "Make Art Monday!" So let's get busy and make some GREAT art!

Change a blend mode, play with a filter ..... anything goes as "ART"
This is a rock formation in the Red Rock Canyon area. Topaz 5 used and frame byFilter Forge.
Chas

Last week my monarda was in prime condition. I would walk to it and see dozens of bumblebees working it over. It's fading fast, no doubt accelerated by a string of 100° days. When I looked yesterday there was one single bee working hard for not much pollen.

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I used Topaz Simplify with, for me, a different twist. I can't find the reference now, must have read this in one of my photography magazines: I started with the Crisp Edge preset and then used the sliders to simplify the image. I applied a mask to retain detail for the bee.

I applied the same treatment to another view and put that in my gallery.
http://www.prestophoto.com/photos/image/3669477

Rusty

Chas i see some fantastic texture going on in your photo. Rusty your photo is a wonderful capture but your additional dialog really hits the spot.

wonderful treatment, Chas

Rusty, I hope the cool front reaches your yard soon --- & Judy, your yard too. The temp in my area is much more tolerable this am. Wish it would last & last & last ------


Rusty, this is from last week's MAM:

Judy, sure wish I could create like you do. Super!

I just fiddle with my photos. The lady was walking on the beach, the eyes are of an owl I shot (photographically).


Started with the lady/scene. In Topaz Simplify I like starting with 'Image Crisp Edge'. So easy to adjust sliders to make a painted look or to fatten the lines for a bit of cartoon without going overboard.

Then I used a paint texture - I believe it was one from this forum - and 2 others I found on Deviant Art. Blended the 3 of them with the original photo. Seemed a bit surreal so went further and added the owl's head/blended.

Tennie, thanks for the tip. I used it in Clean3 (Crisp) for bad noise in one of the OPR restores which I just finished. It was a fast & good fix (masked)

btw: I loved all of the art posted in the last MAM.

That's where I read it.
It wasn't in a magazine. It was here. Thanks, Tennie!

Rusty

To get this effect I used the Poster Edges filter and then the Luminosity layers effect.

If you'd like to see a larger view open the link below.

http://russinator.smugmug.com/Photograp ... &lb=1&s=X3

Russ love the effect you got on this. Isn't it fun playing with filters.

Coneflower with a little Orton added.

Irv i like the treatment you used on our coneflower. A beauty.

Russ love the effect you got on this. Isn't it fun playing with filters.

Judy, thanks for the kind words. I agree filter playing - it's fun!!!!!