Red Flower...

patriciakay · #1 03-31-2006, 03:29 AM

Posting this photo i took in Spain, i think its a kind of hibiscus...could be wrong...I thought you could do magical things with it....

Kind regards
Patricia kay

patriciakay · #2 03-31-2006, 03:34 AM

Sending my effort of a dramatic effect....

Crop
add layer
then played with curves in photo shop
added text and border in psp9

Patricia kay.

PhotoGuyJames · #3 03-31-2006, 05:27 AM

gorgeous picture!!! lovely hibiscus!

Gary Richardson · #4 03-31-2006, 05:33 AM

I'm not at all artistic, but thought I'd have a play.

patriciakay · #5 03-31-2006, 06:33 AM

Hi Gary,
Everyone is artistic in one way or another and this photo art is addictive...

Like how you have made the flower stand out....how did you do it???
Being Yorkshire born and bred...do tell where you are from...

Kind regards Patricia Kay

Steve Conway · #6 03-31-2006, 07:06 AM

Flower on a rug.

Steve

Swampy · #7 03-31-2006, 07:11 AM

A lovely double hibiscus! I have these in my backyard and they really add a lot of color and attract bees and butterflies.

Object was to render a "product display" version.

Cut out the flower and stem and copied to another layer. Did a heavy gausian blur on the background and set a curves A/L to reduce the greens and bring up the red glow around the flower.

Added a soft bevel and emboss to the flower. And some smart sharpen to bring up the natural texture in the petals.

Changed the stamen to more yellow, since the ones in my back yard are more yellow.

Thanks for the lovely photo, Patricia!

MargaretM · #8 03-31-2006, 09:20 AM

Painted Hibiscus.
Simplified image first in Photoshop using facet filter. Used Impasto and Diffuse Blur brushes in Painter. Smeared background with smeary oil cloner. Now, I really have to get back to my paying job!
MargaretM

Swampy · #9 03-31-2006, 09:29 AM

Pretty Margaret

Alcar · #10 03-31-2006, 11:41 AM

Here's another painting but using the Impressionist Plugin with Danny Raphael's djroil24 style.
Alan

jch71566 · #11 03-31-2006, 12:06 PM

I like all of these, but I relly love yours, Margaret!

I used "Poster Edges", "Cutout", and then overlaid some edges.

-Jeff

palms1 · #12 03-31-2006, 12:07 PM

Lovely Photo Patricia, Dont get to see many Hibiscus over here i expect they don't like our climate much.
Not too sure wether they are as pale as this i get the feeling it should be more vibrant.

Palms

Gary Richardson · #13 03-31-2006, 01:19 PM

Hi Patricia, I'm a Leeds lad, born and bred.

Below is my layer stack, which explains pretty much what I did.

Janet Petty · #14 03-31-2006, 06:55 PM

There are some lovely and striking images done of this flower. Very nice interpretations all.

And for me, it was just too lovely to pass up.

First, I color corrected the background. I've noticed with some digital cameras that the backgrounds come out skewed to the blue. It was so in this case. From there it was just the AHB, smudge tool, and a couple of funky brushes painted on separate layers then overlayed and tweaked for the final result. My only problem was that I shouldn't have used the pinkish color on the edges. It's too much IMHO. But tis late and I'm not going to change it now.

Janet

Swampy · #15 03-31-2006, 08:27 PM

Lovely, Janet! The background is perfect and I love the pink texture.