Summer Flowers...

[palms]

Had to have another go at one of your lovely flowers Patricia It was another what if's version must get out of the habit of doing these as i would like to know myself how i do them

Palms

[patriciakay]

Nice one Palms...Like the black background...makes the pink roses really stand out...I always intend to make notes of what i am doing...i do sometimes but then get carried away and have not a clear idea of whats been done!!!!

Patricia.....

[Kraellin]

i like that too, palms

and yes, someone shld make an image file format that saves your workflow so that you could just post the image and the workflow would be in the exif data or something. or at least be able to save the work history as an attachment to the file or something.

craig

[palms]

Thank you Patricia and Craig

Palms

[Swampy]

Better late than never...

Duplicated the original 3 times and ran HSL on two of them to change two to different colors.

On a separate layer (below the duplicates) I generated a cube (Filter->Render->3D Transform) and then using Free Transform "mapped" the duplicates to the cube.

Filled the 3D cube with black, lowered opacity and did a gausian blur and repositioned for a shadow. Grouped the cube drop shadow with the three color versions of the flower.

For the background I made another copy of the original and reduced with Free Transform then did a series of copy, flip, merge to make and position the hibiscus background.

New layer with pink background then a snapshot to set the history point. Painted the flipped flowers back with a 20% Starburst brush. Texturized this layer.

[patriciakay]

Swampy...This is fabulous...what an imagination....the cube is great and i love the backgound...wonder if i can follow your steps???

Thanks for joining us...you are never too late....

Patricia......

[Swampy]

Thank you PK!! :-)

The cube was inspired by my recent trip to the NYC 5th Avenue Apple Store. LOL

[Kraellin]

dee dee,

very cool. not only does the cube itself give depth over the background, but each flower has depth on each face of the cube. brilliant

craig

[palms]

Just to add my praise very nice Swampy the cube is excellent as is the background

Palms

[Swampy]

Originally Posted by Kraellin

i like that too, palms

and yes, someone shld make an image file format that saves your workflow so that you could just post the image and the workflow would be in the exif data or something. or at least be able to save the work history as an attachment to the file or something.

craig

Adobe has done just that. PhotoShop CS2 (possibly earlier versions?) in General preferences you can opt to save a text log which can then be read/copy-pasted elsewhere.

Following is a text log of a PS file that I added Texture to...
________________
Select layer “Original/Saturation”
Without Make Visible
Texturizer
Texturizer
Effect: Texturizer
Texture Type: Canvas
Scaling: 58
Relief: 5
Light Direction: Top Left
Without Invert Texture
Hide layer “DuoTone”
2006-09-06 15:39:16 File 140-steam-engine.psd saved
Save
As: Photoshop
With Maximize Compatibility
In: Dee Dee's Mac:UserseeDeeMartinesktop:
With Lower Case
2006-09-06 15:39:18 File 140-steam-engine.psd closed
Close
2006-09-06 15:39:34 File 140-steam-engine.psd opened
Open
Dee Dee's Mac:UserseeDeeMartinesktop:140-steam-engine.psd
____________

[palms]

Thank you Swampy for the info, i have had a look in ps7 and cant see it so probably not that early a version

Palms

[Swampy]

Thank you all for the kudus...

BTW The 3D Transform filter (which I used as a template for the cube) is no loger installed automatically by Photoshop CS1 or CS2, but it can be added to the plug-ins folder from the "Goodies" stuff on the Extras disk. It should already be there if you are using older versions of Photoshop. (Filters-->Render--->3D Transform).

[GerryB]

Here's a quickie!

[patriciakay]

Thanks Swampy for all your details...it helps a lot!

Gerry...Great rendition of the hibiscus...that was a quickie???? Like it ....really cool...
Welcome to RetouchPro,look forward to seeing more of your pictures...

Patricia...

[pavel123]

Originally Posted by GerryB

Here's a quickie!

Wow! (sorry for the short comment, the picture speaks for itself).

Pavel

[Swampy]

Cubes rule!! LOL

Cool, GerryB.. (pun intended)