Textured Wood Lily

Gallery: Photo ArtPosted October 27, 2012385 views8 comments

Thanks for the monthly theme Marc - this was fun to try!

The original is a wood-lily (which I'll post below), the texture was a rusted metal image downloaded from the internet. Ended up using 6 layers in CS6 with various blend-modes (alternating 3 layers each of the flower and texture). The lowest flower layer was enlarged slightly and drop-shadow added.

After that I played around in my trial version of NIK color-efex and ended up using 5 of their filters: bleach bypass, white neutralizer, detail extractor, vignette lens and image border.

Had to save this as a fairly low-quality jpeg, hope the compression isn't too bad.

Thanks for looking and any comments.

Comments

8 comments

Comment posted by Karen Kane on October 27, 2012 at 2:44 AM

This is the original wood-lily image.

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Comment posted by Rob Graham on October 27, 2012 at 9:49 AM

Well done, Karen. I like the texture of the background. The background petals help separate the main flower from the rest of the image.

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on October 27, 2012 at 10:26 AM

Karen, this is lovely! It looks like a painted wood cut.

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Comment posted by Barb Pflaum on October 27, 2012 at 12:56 PM

Beautiful image, Karen. The background petals and the drop shadow give a nice sense of depth.

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Comment posted by Marc Ward on October 29, 2012 at 5:52 PM

Karen,

The wet lily on the metal texture gives a great juxtaposition. I might have liked to see a drop shadow that was a bit tighter and darker, but this is very well done.

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Comment posted by Gary Yeoh on October 29, 2012 at 9:46 PM

Karen:
You have invested a lot of time on this image and the outcome is really good. The bg petal provides nice transition from the flower to the bg.

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Comment posted by Ian Wolfenden on October 30, 2012 at 5:53 PM

Wonderful transformation of the original, Karen ! This now looks like a very attractive tile - beautifully patterned in subtle tones.

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Comment posted by Holly Morris on December 18, 2012 at 9:02 PM

I really like both of these images...love the texture!
HollyMorris

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