Thought i would sneak the first flowers of the year in from my garden :grin: ( just noticed a weed as well )

P.S. Where is Steve ?

Palms

Gave it an impasto/oil try. :)

Not totally sure about this one - but the weed has come out well.:)

Peter

You have crocuses! Yay, spring is on its way. I'm so ready for those gorgeous little harbingers of spring. Thank you for sharing them. You made my day.

Janet

Very nice lkroll

Peter I know what you mean about being not sure Its different but i DO like it

Janet the crocuses have been out about a week now but they are early ! and i have leaves growing on my hardy fuchsia :eek: and the grass badly needs mowing, but as we are having a few frosts it will have to wait

Palms

dont know if you would call mine "photo based art" but here it is anyway

Not totally sure about this one

I'm sure !! Loved this one - how did you do it?

Rô

dataflow whichever category it falls into ( and boy are there some heated discussions on that ) it is good

Ro yours is great, was it the ahb ?


Palms

Ro yours is great, was it the ahb ?

Yep, I always try other things - but keep on coming back to AHB. :bigthmb:

Rô

Though my finger's are getting tired, I'm still stitching. lol

:)

Glad to see your still stitching lkroll, keep up the good work

Ro noticed you have done the snowdrops as well, Love the clarity of the flowers :bigthmb:
my attempt at the snow drops done with ahb

Palms

I'm sure !! Loved this one - how did you do it?

Rô


Big ask that my short term memory is not what it used to be, err what was the question again?

I was trying at first for a water colour thing, so duped and smoothed noise reduction and blur brush. Duped again and reselected the first dupe and did an outline on it with either Smart blur (edges only) or Redfields++ Can't recall, prob Redfields++)

Then changed top layer blend mode to colour, this did not look any good to me so duped it and Redfielded it again this time as Bas relief and blend mode to Overlay.

There was colour tweaks as well plus a black layer faded and masked with an
elliptical gradient to desat the edges - a vignette. There was at least one other bas relief layer as well the emphasize the edges more, and an overlaid texture layer.

Thats a good portion of the work flow there was more but I didn't make notes, as usual!!!

Really glad you liked it.

Peter

I am certainly glad Spring has sprung somewhere! I am still waiting.

Crocus.

Steve C.

AHB+different blend

Nice to see you Steve and your work

Alex nice use of the difference layer mode I dont think i use that one much

Palms

I am very envious of your spring flowers Palms! We still have ice and snow. Ugh! Can't wait for spring :)

This is a hodge podge of playing.

I am very envious of your spring flowers Palms! We still have ice and snow. Ugh! Can't wait for spring :)

This is a hodge podge of playing.

but a nice hodge podge !

You can stop being jealous now, it is cold again today with colder weather forecasted for the weekend :depressed

Palms