Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Touch Up Tuesday: Water Lily

There's a pond that we walk by on our way to and from preschool.
I usually bring my camera because we see new and beautiful things every time!
This lily was our latest surprise.


Before:
Water Lily - SOOC


After:
Water Lily Grunge


I edit with PSE 8 and here's what I did:


Step 1. Cropped.
Step 2. Ran PW's Lovely action.
Step 3. Applied concrete grunge texture, changed layer to screen mode.
Step 4. Adjusted levels.
Step 5. Erased texture layer from lily.
Step 6. Used the burn tool to darken the frame edges and the lily.


Touch Up Tuesday's at the Paper Mama

16 comments:

  1. I really like it! Great job.

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  2. Great picture! I especially like what the texture adds to it. :D

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  3. great bits of editing, love how you erased the texture from the lily, very beautiful!

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  4. Really great job! I like the decision to do the burning around the edges too, very nice.

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  5. Katie,
    "Lovely" After! Pioneer Woman makes some of the best actions.

    Kristy

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  6. I love what you did with this picture! Awesome!

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  7. Great edit - I love PW actions. Her lovely and ethereal one is a favourite of mine along with that edge burn.

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  8. Your before was awesome but I love how you've changed up the composition and made it really pop. Nice work.

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  9. I love both the before and the after! Beautiful shot! Great color and texture in your edit!! :)

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  10. Beautiful! I love the texture and all the colours - so vibrant and beautiful.

    You have such a wonderful blog :)

    I hope you have a happy day..

    K xx

    www.thoseblissmoments.blogspot.com

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  11. Your texture makes this picture just perfect. Love it!! I need to read up some on textures and using them. Great, great edit for an already great picture.

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