the texture from bonnie i added is “faded fresco” (find the other PAF-contributions here), and i thought nancy donaldson´s new “pole 7″ would intensify the snow on the quince.
the PAF showcase is back from the holidays break and the first photo of this year comes from my garden – first snow a few weeks ago (actually we had almost no snow so far this winter. but then… i don´t really miss it…).
i called my photo for this week´s PAF – showcase “bakin´ craze” (below you see the original picture i took on a christmas fair last week, above the altered version with blending mode lighter color and font bleeding cowboys).
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”
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.
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 4
i often work quite cumbersome in achieving a certain result (to tell the truth: too lazy to read or explore instructions…). same here. i found the grid background somewhere online and thought that looks awesome. couldn´t figure out how to get my photos into the rounded edges. so i gave my pics a black ttv-frame first, then i could fiddle them into the black placeholder. sure there are better methods;) but as i said: cumbersome. that´s what i am sometimes. but i get my results;)
for PAF i could´t decide which alteration of my seed photo i liked better…
