Summer Flower

[Kraellin]

i was out and about the other day and ran into a couple nice areas of flowers. i dont really know what these are, but they bloom for a fairly long time and have a nice flower, coming in whites, pinks/magentas and light violets. the shop came out nicely and thought i'd post it up.

[lkroll]

Another formula for an oil. Supersharpen, GREYC, ICE4, GREYC, ImpressionFX with Paper preset, back into GIMP for Glass Tile set to Desolve and finally Xero's Supersmooth filter. Yes, all filters and layer properties only that were used.

Click here for the complete rendering; attached is just a crop.

[Kraellin]

oh wow! very cool, lyle! i love the strokes on that

[lkroll]

Thanks Craig. Left out one of the most important steps. A blending of DCSpecial's 1969 filter for the enhanced saturation. Pretty obvious that I skipped this step. lol

[Peter S]

Nice pic Craig, I was wondering who would crack first and post a flower. Palms would have been going cold turkey,
Thought I'd try a smudge with a crazy BG.

Peter

[Kraellin]

very cool, peter you really put the focus on the flower with that. nice!

[Joeven]

I didn't know what to do with this one.

Joe

[palms]

Originally Posted by Peter S

I was wondering who would crack first and post a flower. Palms would have been going cold turkey,


Peter

Not me ! i just had the central heating installed

Palms

[0lBaldy]

A three step accident with a little cleanup (Painted a few white spots)

Copy... Bas relief... eliminate black

[Kraellin]

joe, if that's what you do when you 'dont know what to do', why, keep not knowing

almost glassine there, OB. i like it

[lkroll]

Just bored. Need to hit the sack now.

[Kraellin]

i like the mottled blue there, lyle.

[swarbees]

my try ---multiple impressionist filters at various opacities and a low opacity glass distortion-- also some color changes
Could it be a type of hybiscus? It the bloom looks like a hybiscus that I have but the leaves are different?

[palms]

my guess is that it is some sort of hibiscus as well swarbees

nice photo Craig had to have a guess but is that a blue sky there? forgot what one of those looks like ! ! ! ! !

sorry i havent got time to comment on all the lovely work so far but great work all

Palms

[Kraellin]

oh, that's gorgeous, swarbees! love it!

and palms, that's simply amazing! you just keep getting better and better!

and yes, blue sky all the way

[GerryB]

Sorry I haven't been around for a while. We've had a busy year: my Mother passed away in January, we went to Photoshop World in Orlando in April, and we traveled to Albuquerque in May. I've been working on the pictures we took in Orlando and Albuquerque so I haven't had much time for anything else. I am now seeing the light at the end of the tunnel so I'll be making more contributions to this site in the future.

[Kraellin]

very lovely, gerry! nice frame, nice crop and even a nice signature

[GerryB]

Thanks, Craig. It's nice to get back into the routine. This was fun. I hope to do more in the future.

[Kraellin]

well, good. glad to have you back

[lkroll]

Like your rendition and look forward to seeing more post's from you too Gerry.

[Janet Petty]

The flower is called Rose of Sharon.

Great work all. I'm glad to be back and viewing artwork and photos again.

[Kraellin]

welcome back, janet

and thank you for the name. these things grow a lot around here and never knew the name.