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This is my grand-daughter Angelica…Same processing as The Free Thinker edited in “Gaïa…The living planet book” / I was amazed by the result,I thought it realy looked like an ancient painting. / A long time ago , they use to capture a moment in paintings.When I did that layer I had the impression to had captured the beautiful face of my Angelica forever.C.C Arshagra wrote a poem for me that realy represent that image,when I read it,I cried like a baby.I was realy touched. / I did another image later with the same processing called The free thinker / / / / /
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For the past couple of years I am attracted by the sunrise in the morning. This is one of such moments captured. Moisture is in the air Sunrise taken in Sydney. / 2005-03-13 5:18am / Panasonic DMC-LC1 / 1/200 / f/4.8 / ISO 100 © All Rights Reserved :hinting 2007 IR photo of the same view thinking of you / / Please see the rest of my portfolio. /
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My apologies for having no originality in flower choice but as you can see, I love my plain old dandelions! Anyway, in this image there are 3 stages of flower from the same plant, the bud, the flower and the post-flower fairy which to me are like 3 generations. I chose the layers and treatment to reflect all 3 generations by being aged yet still bright and not faded. / Have sold 1 x laminated print.
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I’ve updated and played with my original version of this one, which you can find here / There’s much more going on here with extra layers, drawings and I’ve drawn some text too. / Hope you like!
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The flower and the wall. Took picture of both and mixed it up somehow. Photoshop, layers, textures, filters.
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Double layer of Angelica ,my grandaughter ,who’s going to be 7 years old in august and a macro of stone .
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This pool in Karijini National Park / Western Australia is a bit hard to get to but well worth the effort. Equipment: CANON 5D, CANON 24-105 f4 L IS Framing suggestion: / Photo was featured in Style! Class! Elegance! Excellence! SOLD: / Durst Lambda Fuji Flex Print 20×12 inch, / Sold to person from Western Australia, / through www.aabz-imaging.com / Matted Print, 218mm x 326mm, through RB-site © aabz-imaging / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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Incredibly shaped rocks in Hamersley Gorge, Karijini National Park/Western Australia Equipment: CANON 5D, 17mm This image has won the following RB-Challenges: / Australian Traveller Travel Photography Challenge / National Parks of the World Group – Your Best Feature Framing suggestion: / / / SOLD: / Laminated Print, Large 610×406mm, through RB-site / / Image was featured in Fine Art of Landscape Photography – Style! Class! Elegance! Excellence! – Australian Travel Photography and Writing – Your Magic Place / / © aabz-imaging / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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Sunlight touching the layers of mist and fog thats blanketing the land!!
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Nothing like wiling away the night hours with a stout mug of / ginger tea, a warm kitty & CS3. :-/ / / My daughter, Heidi.. / (Credit: Heidi Lael for the self portrait.) / / Photo of the Week winner at Viewbug.com / Prize: $25.00 / / Her profile: HEIDI / / / / / / / / / /
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self portrait
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/ MCN: CF82D-BBA61-74027 July 2009…featured in Moody, Dark, Evocative; placed in the Top Ten in the Sepia Tones challenge hosted by the Moody, Dark, Evocative group. / / February 2009…featured in the Outsiders January 31, 2009…featured on the Red Bubble home page January 2009…featured in Expiremental Photography and Editing, Fine Art Composites; Core; and placed 3rd in the February Avatar challenge hosted by the Made in Digital group[C.O.R.E] A tree on the beach. Chicago. texture
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I dreamed I thought I knew who I am, / or at least who I believed I was, / but now, it seems ‘twas all a sham, / and no one ever does! / 05-29-2009 featured in / Just Brown 07-07-2009 / Shapes&Patterns 06-03-2009 / The Alphabet Soup 06-01-2009 / Spectacular Spirals 05-27-2009 / Unconventional Artistry 01-08-2009
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This image defines me in many ways. My favorite flowers are tulips and my favorite color is red. A flower goes through many stages in it’s life as does a human being. In that process it too, weeps. This is a personal feeling I get from this image. / MCN: C50B3-92AFF-C4A7D June 2009…placed in the Top Ten in the All Things Green and Red chellenge hosted by the First Things group. April 2009…featured in Tulips March 2009…featured in The Woman Photographer texture1 texture2
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would make a good valentine’s day card…....hinthint :]
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TWO PICS….one taken at the same place as Headland on a foggy morning and a pic of some painting peeling off from metal piece…. for fun… :))) / /
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Popular Wall Art and Greeting Cards (30 day) 2009 03 11 Lithuania
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I was messing around with my camera on Mother’s Day and thought I’d try the lovely cliched coffee-mug-splash idea. Amazingly, this heart just pitched up in one of the splashes… especially wonderful since I was using a heart printed mug. I figure it was put there by God just for me, an extra Mother’s Day gift. ( : Featured in the First Things Group – May 09 – thank you very much to the hosts! Featured in All Things Coffee – May 09 – Thank you!! Winner of the June Challenge in the All About Hearts Group Featured in the All About Hearts Group – June 09 – thanks so much for the huge honour! Winner of the challenge ‘Mugs’ in the Mood and Ambience Group – June 09 – thanks so much for voting! Featured in the Happy Haven Photography group – July 09 – thank you! Canon 400D, pp in photoshop.
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FEATURED IN PAWS ‘N’ CLAWS / FEATURED IN CATS & DOGS / FEATURED IN ANIMAL COMPOSITES & FINE ART / FEATURED IN POPULAR WORKS -RED BUBBLE HOME PAGE Composite of two photos, with textures and layers added in Photoshop CS4. / Uploaded for a challenge. /
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I want to fall in a letard and leave my fate in your hands / I don’t want to know if I indicate trace nor where my steps lead / Lullabies and rage mix in the dawn / In my head imaginary storms roar / I want to drink water dream sleep / and feel how my time escapes / Back to yesterday at the same temple to the wishing well. / Prayers pouring bottles / rumors of loaded weapons / in my head imaginary storms roar. / Deserts that I never crossed / and trains that I never took / uncertain time is coming / in which all the answers / crowd behind the door of a pending to a why. / I want to find a good shelter with you / escaping from the world / I want to find a good shelter / and want that fire makes us become into smoke. / Flowers with blood on their sap / statues looking for their soul / in my head imaginary storms roar. “Tormentas imaginarias” by 091 rock band Capileira village, Grenade (Andalusia, Spain) / Canon 400D + Texture layer Feature work in: / - Universal Innovation group (September 09) / - Digital Photography group (September 09)
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Working with layers - The Basics
by Rosemary ScottI was recently asked to explain how I use layers. So while trying to put my thoughts together, I decided I might as well share it with ev…
I was recently asked to explain how I use layers. So while trying to put my thoughts together, I decided I might as well share it with everyone who’s interested. I’ll show how to do very basic adjustments so you get a feel for how layers work. Once you’re comfortable with that you can move on to using layers to create art effects. Please keep in mind that I’m a Photoshop user... I’m in no way an expert! / This is just my way of working with layers. There are many different ways, & they all work. Why use layers ? : / Our reasons for using layers are many & varied. We might be doing vector-like illustrations, Or composing an intricate fantasy photomanipulation. / It may be a simple matter of applying text over an image. / You may just want to do basic tone & colour adjustments of your photographs. / Whatever your reason, using layers is almost essential. / I say this for one very important reason. If you apply adjustments of any type to your original image, you will be altering it permanently. There’s no going back. Pixels get moved around & destroyed, every brush or keystroke seriously alters the quality of your image. / However, working in layers is non-destructive. The original image sits at the bottom of your stack, untouched, unaltered, safe from damage. / All of your edits are stacked on top of the original, & then “flattened”, usually upon completion, or when you’re ready to move on to the next stage of editing. I’ll use this image of a bunch of people looking a Trojan warplane, to demonstrate the basics of using layers. / I’m using PS CS3, & I’m not sure how similar the layout of PS Elements is, so this will either be helpful to you, or just confusing…. it should be fairly similar though. Let’s get started : 1) Open your image in Photoshop, & save it straight away as a psd (Photoshop file format) I’ve decided to call this one “enter the trojan”. / 2) Now have a good look at the image & decide what needs doing. / Does it needs cropping? Some people choose to crop at the start, but for some strange reason I’ll often wait until I’m somewhere through my editing process. I like to wait to see how the image is evolving…. Does anything need cloning out? / This image has a rather annoying person disappearing out of the left side of the frame, so Ill be getting rid of him, as well as cleaning up a few distracting white spots on the airfield in the background. 3) Look to the right of your screen & you’ll see your layers palette. / At the top right of that you’ll see 3 little horizontal lines stacked on top of each other with an arrow next to them. Left click on this & you’ll get a drop-down box. this is your most important box for using layers. Click on duplicate layer, & rename it as you wish. / I’m calling it “clone”. / / You’ll see the duplicate layer appear above the background layer in your layers palette. / / Make sure the clone layer is selected (it’ll be highlighted in grey), & you’re ready to work on that layer. / Now select your clone tool & go to work. All done? If you’re happy with your work make sure you save. Now, remembering what I said about your background (original) layer remaining untouched, here’s a little demo. / Do you see that little eye beside your “clone” layer? / Click on it…. Hello!! Your cloning has gone! Click on it again….. it’s back!!! / OK, we could have fun with this all day, but do you see how the background image is unchanged? Cool huh? Let’s move on…. I’ve got blown out highlights in my clouds which are a problem & the mid-tones are a bit too dark. / I’ll deal with the clouds first by using a curves adjustment layer. 4) All the way down at the bottom of your layers palette, you’ll see a toolbar. look for the circle that’s half black & half white. / This is the “create new fill or adjustment layer” button. / Click on it & select “curves”. / 5) Grab the little white dot on the line in the top right corner. Now drag it a smidgen down to the right. That should take care of the blown out clouds. / Click OK. / / Do you see you now have a curves layer? / (Because I use CS3, it automatically gives me a layer mask box on this layer. It’s that white box in your curves layer. But we’re not going to get into masks today) Now to fix the mid-tones. For this I’m going to add a Levels layer. / 6) Just like in step 4), click on the “create new fill or adjustment layer” button & this time select “Levels”. / 7) This will open a box with a levels histogram in it. / To lighten your mid-tones slide the grey arrow in the middle of the histogram to the left until you’re happy. / Click OK, & you’ll see your levels layer sitting above the curves layer. Now, what if you wanted to do some dodge & burn? / There’s a number of ways to dodge & burn, so I’ll show you one that I use quite often. 8) Remember those 3 little horizontal lines that you clicked on to duplicate the layer? (step 3) / Click on that again, & this time select “New Layer”. / 9) In the dialogue box, change the name to “dodge & burn”, / click on the “mode” dropdown box, & select “overlay”, / then check the box “Fill with overlay-neutral color (50% gray) / it should look something like this : / / Then click OK. You’ll now see a layer called “dodge & burn” in your layers palette. It should be on the top of the pile. If it isn’t, simply drag it to the top. / Any work you do to the top layer will be carried over to all the layers below. 10) Select your burn tool, set your range to Shadows, & Exposure around 20 (this will depend completely upon the type of image you’re working on), then get to work burning out the areas that you feel need deepening. 11) Then take your dodge tool, set your Exposure to around 20 & work over the areas that you think need a little more highlighting. I’ve decided this image needs a bit more saturation. 12) Go back to the black/white circle (as mentioned in step 4), & this time look for Hue/Saturation. / / Adjust your sliders as you see fit, then click OK. / At this stage I’m happy with my basic adjustments. It’s now at the stage where it’s ready for me to use it as a background image for something a little more creative. 13) If you haven’t been saving until now, you really must do it now. 14) Now we’re going to Flatten the file. / Go to those 3 little horizontal lines with the arrow again (step 3), & this time look for “Flatten Image”. / / Click on it. You’ll see that all your layers have been “flattened into just one layer, & it’s now become your new background layer. If you’re planning to print this, you’ll need to give it some sharpening. / There are so many ways to sharpen, but at the moment I’m a bit partial to using the “high pass” filter. 15) To do this you’ll need to use a duplicate layer (remember step 3?) / I’m re-naming it “High Pass Sharpening”. / 16) Go to your “filter” drop down box on your top tool bar, & select, “other”, “high pass”. / 17) Adjust your radius slider until you see a good amount of line detail while keeping the tones in gray. Click OK. / You’re probably wondering what’s happened to your image. We’ll fix that right now. 18) Look above your “high pass” layer, & you’ll see Opacity set at 100%, to the left of that the word “normal” in a drop-down box. / Click on that drop-down box & select “overlay”. / / Presto! You’ve got your image back, & it’s been sharpened. / Toggle the “eye” off & on to see the effect. 19) If it’s too sharpened for your taste, you can adjust the opacity of that layer. / Find the “opacity” slider above the layer, & adjust it as you like. / I’m setting this one to 50%. / 20) Save this as a new psd file ( I’m calling this one “enter the trojan HP sharp”), & flatten it as before. / 21) Now all you need to do is save it in the Format of choice. / I routinely save all my images as TIFF files, & then save again as JPEG. / Remember to do all you backups now so you don’t forget later. All finished! Now you have an image that is fine as is, or ready for you to get a little creative & do further editing. / The final image : / You might also want to look at Texturing an Image in Photoshop for Absolute Beginners for further editing ideas.
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