Graphic-style florals
August 26, 2008 by Cyndi Lavin
Filed under Arts & Crafts
Technique Tuesday!
Floral images are often great subjects to play around with in Photoshop and other image-editing software. Just when you think that everything has been done with a flower that can possibly be done, you find some new digital tricks that you’ve not thought of before.
Although I like “plain old plain old” flower photos, I’m always tempted to see what else I can do with them. Here’s one such experiment:
Wow, what a difference! That’s beautiful Cyndi.
It seems paradoxical that you’ve taken away detail (with noise and blur), but it makes the photo pop.
It’s funny how removing extra stuff can make such a difference. Thanks, Eileen!
I couldn’t see the difference at first with the pictures not being side by side but after reading the comment I went back and let my eyes float over the pictures. The flowers do pop more. It does make a more interesting picture.
It’s so much more obvious when you see prints of them both. The computer resolution is low enough that a lot of the detail in the original “before” is lost anyway, so it’s harder to see the contrast with the “after”.
I think you could also do some spooky techniques to photos for Halloween, yes?
Oooooo, yeah!
Amazing what one can do nowadays with computers and computer art. Lovely work.