PHOTO ART: Mini-challenge #65 – Jack's Red Rose

[GerryB]

Originally Posted by palms1

glikster i like that, was it hard to do ?

Gerry very very very nice

some ahb again

Palms

Thanks for the compliment. I used a technique from the Photoshop Photo Effects Cookbook. I cut the rose out of the pic, duped it a couple of times. Then I desaturated one layer and applied the find edges filter. I then worked on that layer to make the edges better and deleted the white in the layer. Next, I ran the cutout filter on the color rose layer and cleaned it up so the colors were right. I added an oval selection on a new layer and stroked the selection. I added a new layer underneath the color rose layer and used the oval to make a selection and filled it with yellow. Using the technique from the book, I used the glass filter on this and the color rose layer. I merged these two layers and used the lighting effects filter with the source in the upper left. I combined the "edges" and oval layers and added a emboss and bevel as well as a slight drop shadow style. I added the "extra" leading with a 3 pixel brush. I use a mouse so sometimes I can't get the curves the way I wanted them, but I guess they look alright. Finally I added a new layer below all these and filled it with black.

[Sweetlight]

Triple Dipple thumbs up to the stained glass. Outstanding.
Peace.
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[ducasse]

using plug lucis pro ver. 5.0 ... an old plug in..