When mom got up this morning, she told me she had absolutely no idea what she was going to do for Caturday Art and even less inspiration. Do you have days like that?
Anyway, she sat down at the computer and started looking at photos. She pulled up a photo and tried a few things with it but didn’t like it so she tried another. No luck with it either. “Boring,” she said. Finally she found this photo and thought maybe she could do something interesting with it.
- As always, in Photoshop Elements, she created a duplicate layer, preserving the original for future duplicate layers. She used the posterize filter on the first layer. Since so much of the photo is black, it didn’t do much except kind of give a water color effect to the sky.
- On another layer, she used the glowing edges filter which added all the white to the trees. She moved this layer behind the posterize layer and set the posterized layer to 65% to let some of the glowing edges layer through.
- Next, on another layer, she selected all the solid black areas and cut out everything else. She then used the emboss filter on this layer.
- Then she added four more layers, increasing the canvass size each time, and filling the layers with colors from the photo.
She wasn’t especially thrilled with the “muddiness,” as she called it, of the embossed layer but decided to leave it. As she turned layers off to get to the original photo to save it, she did kind of like what happened.
Hope you have an inspired day!
Christy Paws
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Pawtastick effect of yur foto Christy! Wee luv thee black n silver one thee best…LadyMumm sayss thee reddish one lookss like a copper tooled pickyture.
Yur Mumma iss berry creeative!
***paw kissess*** Siddhartha Henry an LadyMum <3 <3
Sometimes inspiration only happens by mistake! MOL Very clever art 🙂
Love it! So creative.
Purrs xx
Athena and Marie
ooooh! We really like the one with the black background.
We really love it, you are very talented in your creations.
I love all those images! Your Mom has so much talent. I’m not really thrilled with ours today.
Pretty darn fancy for uninspired sweetie! loves Fozziemum xxx
The original is lovely but experimenting pays off. Love the pink and gray version.
WOW- your Mom goes all out with the filters and art work. Great job!
Your mom is SO creative with your artwork…I love it!
For being uninspired, your mom sure came up with something good! Happy Caturday!
You are great with photoshop!
Great artwork!
Noodle and crew
Luv da foto. Yous faw more talented than ow mommy.
Luv ya’
Dezi and Lexi
I love these effects – and the original!
You are really good with photoshop. Wehave photoshop elements 10 and M finds it very hard to use and understand directions. We love all of your pictures. Good job.
If that is what your mommy can do without inspiration, our mom is mighty impressed. We think the final art piece is absolutely beautiful. Please join us Sunday for our selfies blog hop. XOCK, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Jo
Your Mom could have framed the original it is so pretty! We like what she did with it though 🙂