Enjoy the ruins of Caesarea, Israel and a blurry picture we saw quite often on our journey...laundry, which was snapped from the bus window as we rolled on by.

Janet

A couple of ideas.

Steve

Not bad Steve, not bad at all. Love the laundry especially.

My take on the colorful laundry.

Janet

Wonder what it is that makes laundry quite a fascinating subject ? great photo Janet, here is my ahb attempt and am now of to play with the other two

Palms

I prefer them as a photo! Enough "alteration" as been made by time! :wink:

Hi Janet,

Love the pictures, middle one cried out to be a sketch.

gary, i like that. what did you use?

Like Gary, I thought this one would make a good sketch, but I added back some color.

Hi Craig,

Bit of a mishmash of techniques.

Created a "paper" layer using technique from a link posted by Danny the other day (can't lay my hands on it at the moment). This was in a seperate document.

Back to Image document.
First duplicated image twice.
Desaturated new copies, and inverted top copy, set blend mode to Colour Dodge.
Applied Gaussian Blur to top layer and adjusted radius to get best result.

Flattened image and applied Angled Strokes filter to it (can't remember settings).
Duplicated this and applied Gaussian Blur to it (radius about 2 pix), set blend mode to Multiply and reduced layer Opacity for effect (about 60% I think).

Flattened image, then copied/pasted to "Paper" document.
Set blend mode to Darken. (I may have altered layer Opacity a touch, can't fully remember).

Swampy, I really like yours, the colour works nicely.

Thank you, Gary/

WOW!!! I love the techniques done as sketches. This kind of stuff is why I posted them. I couldn't figure out what I was going to do with them (other than the slideshow I'm working on, of course :) ).

Isn't laundry great. That was a statement not a question.

Now if ya'll want me to upload the other 1498 pictures????????? :lol: :lol:

Thanks for the great work all. Keep 'em comin'.

Janet

Not bad Steve, not bad at all. Love the laundry especially.

My take on the colorful laundry.

Janet

Thank you much! Sounds like a great trip.

Steve

thanks, gary :)

dee dee, excellent! love the color combos and sketching and the flares and the framing and the... i like it :)

Thank you, Craig. :-)

I finally got around to painting the ruins. Here is my watery take on Herod's aqueduct.

Janet

Lovely, Janet. You've managed to give the ancient rocks a soft look. Cool.