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nancy sent along new textures to play with… PAF – nov 25th – nov 27th
this week at PAF the suggestion is: “to link up a piece of photo art sitting in your archives that never received the ‘attention’ it deserved”
so these two are variations on previously shown photos with different blending modes…
freddie mercury
new nancy donaldson textures in my email account (*rejoicing*)… couldn´t resist to play immediately…
i thought the perfect theme would be to make an homage for freddie mercury, who died 20 years ago. what a voice – what a man!!! listened to teo torriatte several times (wonderful ballade, not heard as often as the biggest hits), while looking for pics in the net and also found the queen font to fit the collage.
blended the photos together and added nancy´s “garage 2″ texture (will be published on her flickr these days…). brushed out (layer mask) the texture from the faces and gave it a little twist with the color balance adjustment into red. *hey, freddie, hope you rest in peace… but could you please rehearse some new songs for welcoming us in heaven one day;)*
neue texturen von nancy heute in meinem email-account… musste sofort eine ausprobieren. und da es sich anbot, hab ich eben mal eine homage zum 20. todestag von freddie mercury gemacht. hab immer wieder teo torriatte laufen lassen (eine wunderschöne ballade, nicht gar so ausgelutscht wie die bekanntesten hits), während ich nach bildern gegoogelt und auch den queen font entdeckt habe.
*hey freddie, ich gönn dir ja deinen frieden, aber du könntest doch fürs wiedersehen leicht noch ein paar neue songs für uns einüben… tätest bestimmt auch den engerln einen gefallen;)*
new digital editions…
again i played with the new textures from nancy donaldson (i really was challenged with the first one… found it hard to find a picture fitting the “knitted & drawn” texture…). and with these i can also show my “go-to” technique (for PAF) i use on almost every photo: i am switching through all blending modes and searching the one that appeals to me most, AND: i often use a layer mask to brush a part of the pic free from texture. so here: the flower and the ladybug are “brushed free” several times.
the ladybug photo is a homage at our domestic species of these insects (the red ones with the seven black spots). currently we have an invasion really with the asian species (harmonias), which are a little bigger (and colored in some variations) and probably will become a problem for our native ones. i found this one on my walk last week, the whole sunny edge of the forest densely populated with the harmonias.
took twice the text layer from nancy donaldson for this one plus another one from flickr, and brushed free the beetle from each texture.
dieser einheimische siebenpunkt ist eine homage an unsere marienkäfer, die gerade heftig verdrängt werden von der etwas größeren asiatischen art. zwar sind diese auch nützlich hinsichtlich blattlausvertilgung, aber “unsere” find ich viel schöner… vielleicht nostalgie, denn schon aus unseren kinderbilderbüchern waren sie nicht wegzudenken… letzte woche war ich auf meinem spaziergang am sonnigen waldrand wieder eingekreist (ja nicht den mund aufmachen! super lästig!!) von den “zugezogenen” und umso erfreuter, doch auch noch einen “eingeborenen” zu finden…
dieser einheimische siebenpunkt ist eine homage an unsere marienkäfer, die gerade heftig verdrängt werden von der etwas größeren asiatischen art. zwar sind diese auch nützlich hinsichtlich blattlausvertilgung, aber “unsere” find ich viel schöner… vielleicht nostalgie, denn schon aus unseren kinderbilderbüchern waren sie nicht wegzudenken… letzte woche war ich auf meinem spaziergang am sonnigen waldrand wieder eingekreist (ja nicht den mund aufmachen! super lästig!!) von den “zugezogenen” und umso erfreuter, doch auch noch einen “eingeborenen” zu finden…
texture tuesday: phoebe
for this TT challenge we should use the “phoebe” texture from kim.
the second one i chose was nancy donaldson´s w3bottleb
and blended in a poison label…
PAF – nov 11th – nov 13th
showcasing two pictures for photo art friday:
the first one shows a larch and is edited with: nancy donaldson´s w3 (blending mode exclusion) + 2x bonnie´s new texture wicked (blending modes hue and soft light), shadowhouse creations box 4 (b.m. substract, opacity 70%)
second photo: textures are nancy donaldson´s w3rust and shadowbox creations box 4texture tuesday: take on “two”
i photographed these two trees and edited the photo with kim klassen´s texture autumn burst at blending mode “difference” (plus another one from nancy donaldson – encaustic with graphics).
kleines mitbringsel…
auf die schnelle musste für heute abend ein kleines mitbringsel her…
hab das zitronenfoto mit nancy donaldsons encaustic textur gelayert…
eine flasche zitronenessig besorgt…
und das grußkärtchen mit einem clipiola am band festgeklipst
textures from nancy donaldson
nancy donaldson again provided some textures to play with… so far i enjoyed making the following samples, (click to enlarge):
all these are made in a similar way: using the photo, texture(s) from nancy + scan from a botanical book.if interested, you can find my “recipes” below:
original photo cropped a littletexture 2 from nancy donaldson (crackle structure) at blending mode soft light 100% – layer mask to erase the seed
scanned image (from a botanical book) layered with blending mode darken + adjustment layer to make it more black
frame from shadowhousecreations (black vintage mask) set at multiply
text added with fonts mythbusters + pea terri cherie
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nancy donaldson texture 2c at blending mode darker color 100%nancy donaldson texture 2b at blending mode soft light 50%
copy of all, soft light, 22%
scanned image of a raspberry (botanical book) at blending mode divide, 100%
text: fonts second breakfast + fine hand
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layer from background, soft light 60%nancy donaldson texture 2a, blending mode exclusion 100%
again texture 2a, blending mode linear burn 70%
scanned image of corn (botanical book), darker color 100%
flickr ttv-frame multiply 100%
texture from nancy donaldson
last week nancy donaldson provided an encaustic looking texture for use in photo editing. i instantly fell in love with this and finally found the time to play on some of my pics… it is so addicting!!
thank you so much, nancy – and i hope you enjoy these altered photos…
(sorry, i forgot to record all the steps and only saved it as jpgs…)