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Re: Make Art Monday

PostPosted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 1:32 pm
by bjt
Everyone's art is so special!! Love them all!

Judy, was your art created with the mixer brush?

Re: Make Art Monday

PostPosted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 2:08 pm
by ladybug
Betty no but i wish i had thought of that.

Re: Make Art Monday

PostPosted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 12:20 pm
by bjt
A shady place for a little walk
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The above is Lady Bird Johnson's Wild Flower Center in Austin Tx.
ACR, T simplify Buz, with added color toning.
Also, I selected all the white highlights & used content aware fill to tone down overly bright areas.
Buzsim sure makes a difference in a photo which has many areas of reflected light, such as sun light bouncing off leaves, etc.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47770383@N ... otostream/

(The forecast for my area is 102 today & tomorrow --- again! So shade looks good to me.)
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Re: Make Art Monday

PostPosted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 2:33 pm
by Rusty
I finally got inspired enough to do something creative. It's a long way from Monday but that's OK.

With our lack of rain the flower beds did little or nothing for us this year. Potted plants, however, were well watered and look as good as ever. My wife asked me to photograph this hanging basket for her:
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Lake several others this week, I tweaked a bit with Topaz. I used Topaz Adjust, Brilliant Warm in the Classic Collection and added a vignette. I finished it off with the Faux Mat I described some months ago in the tutorial section.

A larger version is in my gallery: http://www.prestophoto.com/photos/image/3761480
Rusty

Re: Make Art Monday

PostPosted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 2:44 am
by ladybug
Rusty i love the photo and the framing!

Here is my created art. The bag i created from a tutorial by dear Wendy Williams. The rest i just winged.
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Re: Make Art Monday

PostPosted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 2:05 pm
by Rusty
I can't imagine how to begain to "create an image" like that.

Rusty

Re: Make Art Monday

PostPosted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 3:53 pm
by ladybug
Rusty i usually just start with basic circle or square shapes and mold them to what i want. A lot of textures,patterns, burning and dodging. Of course my idea was for a gazebo and i changed in mid stream because it looked more like a mushroom so i just followed that through.