dandelion distorted

The lowly dandelion has finally been made a star! Powerful colors, lines and design. Love it!

Absolutely love this! It looks like classic 60's pop art. I'd hang this on my wall. The yellow is so cheerful. Very creative, great lines. (How did you do this??)

Very cool distortion! Beautiful colors and lines. I like how I can see the dandelion at the bottom center and the greens on top.

Thank you for your comments. I have a few more of these I'll post sometime, maybe.

As to your question, I learned how to do this on another forum awhile back. Fun to play with in the winter months. The method I used requires Adobe Photoshop. Go to flamingpear.com. Download their set of free plugins called freebies. After you extract the zip file you will find in that set, a filter called "Ornament". There is both a 32 and 64 bit version of that. And so, depending upon which version of PS you are using, you would locate the Adobe>CSx>Filters folder on your computer (without having photoshop activated) and simply copy the appropriate file into that folder. Then when you open Photoshop, you will find a "flamingpear" line under filters and clicking on that will lead to "ornament"

So with that accomplished, the technique is this: You introduce an image into photoshop. You then select Filter>Flamingpear>ornament That will do the first part of the transformation. Then you immediately select Filter>Distort>polar coordinates, and that will complete the transformation.

The "art" part of this process, if there is any, consists in learning how to select the content and adjust the initial aspect ratio of the input in a way that will produce a desired output. For me, I like playing and being surprised; so this was a fun thing to do for awhile.

Hope that helps to answer your question.

VERY cool! Simple as THAT!

Let's see your results, Chris! LOL Let's see how simple it really is....

Love it.

Thanks for the info too John!

John,

Fun, bright, and happy image... Thanks for sharing what you did here. Flaming Pear has some cool plugins.

Congrats on yout first WP!
This is very unique and effective - great vision!
Sandy

That's very cool John a lovely interpretation.