[Swampy]

Nice, Tita!

I like the soft colors you chose.

[Janet Petty]

Very nice and welcome to RetouchPRO Titia. I like your methods. They are some I haven't seen explored.

Janet

[DannyRaphael]

Hello, Titia:

Welcome and thank you for your lovely interpretation and instructions. Paint Shop Pro is fine to use. Whatever program(s) work for you.

Your English is much better than my Dutch!

~Danny~

[Legacy~Art]

Painter 9 with mouse...added sandstone texture (only cos i don't have any others lol!

[jaykita]

Painter8 oil cloned brush, canvas texture in Photoshop.

[TylerRB]

Simply copied it 4 times, changed blend mode to screens, and lowered the opacity on each copy. Just an experiment of a sort....

Also at work....

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by TylerRB

Simply copied it 4 times, changed blend mode to screens, and lowered the opacity on each copy. Just an experiment of a sort....

Also at work....

Experimenting is perfectly fine, Tyler. That's how all of us learn.

Just don't get into trouble doing it at work!

[malia01us]

Wow--everyone's images are great! I'm new to the forums & I am getting so inspired seeing so much creativity and variation in the group...not to mention the sharing spirit!

Beautiful picture, Christine! I love orchids and they always remind me of my grandmother (Lois), who passed away last year. She loved them as much as I do--and her favorite color was purple, so that's where I got the inspiration to do this...

(and I even remembered to keep track of what I did this time, which is unusual in itself! )

Photoshop:
1. removed background
2. created layer under flowers - rendered clouds, then difference clouds, then hit ctrl f till I liked the look (a trick I learned just yesterday in the forum)
3. new layer & snapshot
4. dup'd that layer 3 times
5. bottom new layer: filter, sketch, waterpaper - blend mode soft light
6. middle new layer: filter, artistic, neon glow - blend mode color
7. top new layer: filter, artistic, cutout then filter, artistic, watercolor - blend mode darken
8. new layer & snapshot
9. decided I didn't like the background after it'd been through the cutout, so masked that snapshot over a dup of the original cloudy background so it blended better
10. added border & textured with sandstone

This was fun!!! I did it at work too...but on my lunch break!
Donna

[CJ Swartz]

Such lovely blossoms -- thanks for the use of the image!

Welcome, Donna! A lovely remembrance of your grandmother, and a lovely addition to the thread!
Everyone is having a good time, and sharing the beauty.

Did a few layers of Polar Distortion of the orchids to create a background for the subject layer of orchids. Did some dry brush/chrystallize etc. to the subject layer, and added a overlayer of textured white (used the notepaper filter) which I erased off in areas using the Fuzzball brush.

[obiron]

These flowers (orchids?) are beautiful. Thanks for letting us use them.
Here are a couple of renditions:
The first is done with ErickN's action (available on action central). I've substituted a canvas overlay instead of the action's texture layer.

The second is done with Trimoon's watercolor method on his Artistic Expressions cd. Again I used a canvas pattern adj. layer here instead of a water color texture. I prefer the look of the canvas to the watercolor texture.

Ron

[photobobbie]

Beautiful photo Christine, thank you. I used Cybia edgeworks and KPT Pyramid paint.

Bobbie

[TylerRB]

PhotoBobbie

Wonderful color presentation you came up with there. I like!

T