Friday, April 6, 2012

Ceramic Leaf?

ceramic leaf?

I had fun with this week's Photo Art Friday submission. I played around with this image I took of a leaf stuck in a fence, and after lots of layers it started to look like it had been glazed and fired in a kiln. I used lots of texture in this one - on the leaf itself, I used a reverse layer mask and a fabric design (public domain). I also used Bonnie's "Dream Wonder" texture at Saturation/100%, and also a free film grunge texture (Flickr, I think?) and a couple passes through Radlab. I love the freedom of playing with Photo Art in PSE - you can try anything your heart desires with just one click! And every single "mistake" can be corrected. It's such a stress buster for me...Happy Friday, everyone.

Photo Art Friday

19 comments:

  1. Sherri!! What a piece of photo art! It really does look like a glazed, ceramic leaf!!! Love how it is caught in the metal bar. What an inspired edit. Thank you for sharing the piece and your process with PAF.

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  2. This is so unusual and the layers and depth you achieved are just amazing. I love the color and visual texture. I've never used RadLab, but it sure seems popular and gives excellent results. Great job! Happy PPF

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  3. It does look like a ceramic leaf. Great work of art.

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  4. This is one of the coolest photos ever! Your photos always amaze me. I think it's time to get pse and take a class (like Brandi's over at brandigirlblog) and use the things you speak of and use so easily. Other than cropping and ligtening,....that's about as far as I go on photoshop! :)

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  5. Terrific!! I think I've said it before..but will say it again. I'm always so inspired by the work you do here!

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  6. Oh I absolutely love this. I remember seeing you leaf stuck in a fence before, but this time it is fabulous in it's new guise. I entirely agree with digital art being a stress buster. It is what keeps me sane!

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  7. This piece really is amazing - so 3D! I cannot imagine how many layers it took you to accomplish this - I'm tired just thinking about it!

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  8. Awesome! Love the wonderful texture of your piece and that leaf is amazing.

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  9. What a great effect! I agree with you about playing with Photoshop - it makes it easy to try so many things.

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  10. Very interesting work of art. Many beautiful elements :)

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  11. I can only repeat the others. It looks like you had fun with this. It does look like a ceramic leaf!

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  12. Sherri this is a winner - it's beautiful.

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  13. Very creative and wonderful processing and edit. Lots of different interpretations. Thanks so much for sharing. visiting from Bonnie's PAF. Karen

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  14. It looks great. I think you did good with this. :)

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  15. This is terrific! It does look like it is ceramic.
    And, what you said about PSE...ditto!

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  16. I love it! The colours and the composition work really well :)

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  17. It really does look like it has been fired in a kiln. Beautiful!

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