Monday, November 15, 2010

Show Us Your Skills

I got very excited when I saw this week's Show Us Your Skills edit challenge because I love playing with flowers! This one was truly gorgeous before any editing but I had fun playing with textures and photo veils in this edit.

Here's the shot before my edit:



And here is what I came up with:

I edited in PSE7 ... here are my steps:
1. Levels Adjustment Layer - pulled the outside sliders in just a bit
2. Hue/Saturation Layer - yellows +10; greens +10; magentas +10
3. Brightness/Contrast Layer - lowered the opacity to 25%
4. Flatten
5. MCP's Touch of Light/Touch of Darkness Action - darkened some of the petal edges as well as the center of the flower
6. Love That Shot's Serendipidity photo veil - soft light - erased off center of flower
7. Love That Shot's Paris texture - soft light - overlay - erased off flower
8. Slight sharpen
9. Save
To check out more lovely edits, visit the Everyday Elements blog.

5 comments:

  1. Very nice edit!! Loving the texture! I am a new follower!!

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  2. What a gorgeous edit! I love that you made the colors more vibrant, without making them too bright. Just lovely!

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  3. So pretty! Thanks for the "recipe"!

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  4. Beautiful edit and love the texture! This was a fun one to edit! :)

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  5. Fantastic play! I love the rich, vibrant colors and the subtle textures. I ♥ Love That Shot and their photo veils (use them a lot myself). I have that texture but haven't used it, but this edit makes me want to go play with it. :-)

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