Creative Interpretations - Woodland Flowers

[Swampy]

Would love to see your versions of this great shot.

[Steve Conway]

Looks like Dogwood on Cypress. Nice combination of delicate and roughness.

Steve C.

[Swampy]

I would think that's a combination only found in that belt from southern Georgia across to Louisiana, Steve. And I think you are right. Nice version!

[Steve Conway]

Originally Posted by Swampy

I would think that's a combination only found in that belt from southern Georgia across to Louisiana, Steve. And I think you are right. Nice version!

Would have guessed Kudzu had it not been for the blooms. Guess it's not thick enough either.

Steve C.

[Swampy]

LOL, Steve. Now you'll have all the yankees wanting to know what kudzu is. Let's see, how do you explain, Kudzu? An obnoxious vine that grows in the south and literally takes over everything in sight. Telephone poles are not exempt. It smothers and kills any vegetation it covers. It can grow at a rate of 1 foot a day. Beware of kudzu! (But it makes great cattle feed).

[palms]

Originally Posted by Swampy

Now you'll have all the yankees wanting to know what kudzu is

As well as the Brits

On this i used a adaptive equalization plug in (redfields) and aniso

Palms

[Swampy]

Your flowers have a lot of deminsion, Palms, nice!

[alexmeta]

Photoshop CS3 AHB+different blending

[Swampy]

Alexmeta, great work. I think the flowers would "pop" a little more if you mask out the blue color cast. They would be dynomite against that deep blue background. JMHO

[Steve Conway]

Originally Posted by Swampy

LOL, Steve. Now you'll have all the yankees wanting to know what kudzu is. Let's see, how do you explain, Kudzu? An obnoxious vine that grows in the south and literally takes over everything in sight. Telephone poles are not exempt. It smothers and kills any vegetation it covers. It can grow at a rate of 1 foot a day. Beware of kudzu! (But it makes great cattle feed).

You nailed it! That's Kudzu. I've seen it cover whole barns and abandoned houses too.

I have heard that it was originally brought from Japan to plant on hills etc to prevent erosion.

Steve C.

[Swampy]

Here's one for you, Steve... "Under the Kudzu" by Shenendoah

You can download it at my public folder called CUSTOMER DOWNLOADS on my front page http://www.deedeespage.com. Just click on the down arrow.

Enjoy!

[alexmeta]

Originally Posted by Swampy

Alexmeta, great work. I think the flowers would "pop" a little more if you mask out the blue color cast. They would be dynomite against that deep blue background. JMHO

Swampy, thank you for you comments.
May be you are right, especially if you look it at distance with “squint” eyes (sorry for my poor English, don’t allow me to express exactly as I want).

[Swampy]

Your English is fine, Alex. :-)

[Steve Conway]

Originally Posted by Swampy

Here's one for you, Steve... "Under the Kudzu" by Shenendoah

You can download it at my public folder called CUSTOMER DOWNLOADS on my front page http://www.deedeespage.com. Just click on the down arrow.

Enjoy!

Stop it Swampy! I'm falling off my chair.

It was bound to happen I guess. A song about Kudzu, and what further knocks me out is that it is a very good piece of music they put those words to.

Thanks for letting me in on it.

Steve C.

[grannysdc]

Very artistic photo.. LUV the composition!

[Swampy]

Nice out of bounds, Granny!

[Sweetlight]

Hope yall like these.

[lkroll]

Well, not exactly, but this technique has some potential. It uses GIMP's Resynthesizer filter (no longer distributed with the latest release of GIMP, but still can be downloaded). I first created a texture swatch of what I want to apply to the target. I then created an input map with selective colors (see all attached for info). I then create the output target that I want to create. Pretty simple stuff, but it takes a lot of time for Resynthesizer to render on my poor ol' machine. lol

[lkroll]

Same as above; just a different output map.

[palms]

Lyle that is so clever you have to be top of the class

Palms

[Swampy]

WHOA! Lyle! That's wild! :-)

[lkroll]

Thanks all; still not a Jigsaw Image Mosaic, but pretty cool stuff. It has a whole lot of applications too. Below's the link to the official site (I figured the above out, but I'm sure someone else has a tutorial describing the same technique since this gem more then lends itself to do this).

http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/resynthesizer

[chillin]

semi 3D try in 2D

[Swampy]

Chillin!! What a wonderful version. It has so much depth!

[Mining Art]

Nice renditions all around. Looks like I need to take a look at Gimp, pretty neat. Mine; I colored the flowers, stripped the color from the background and replace with moss. Merged detail by flowing colors together and changed to square format.

[Peter S]

I was going to see what they looked like as wallpaper, so I tried Redfield's Seamless workshop, (yes another freebie), that was too busy so I played with several embossing effects and colour tweaks.

Peter

[Swampy]

That's pretty, Peter. It has a fairytale look.

[gmax_123]

Guess you should quit when your ahead---1st attempt - may have had a problem saving to upload -- hey ho G

[kimlou]

I think I'm officially obsessed with the art history brush! Peter S, love your version it looks like it has actually been carved.

[palms]

Originally Posted by kimlou

I think I'm officially obsessed with the art history brush! .

Welcome to the club

Palms