CHRISTMAS CONSTELLATION

"Christmas Constellation" (3-26-14 019v6) was recently morphed from an old photo. I don't often find the "emboss" filter useful, though I frequently try it on a pic. But here I think it works to good effect with these shapes and lines (which, BTW, had already been heavily fudged with). Then I had the fun challenge of adjusting the colors as emboss always introduces a background flat gray. This is also one of those pix that (to my eyes) looks better in a larger version. So just click on the image if you're interested.

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THE HEART UNFURLS

"The Heart Unfurls" (4-3-14 016v4a) was just morphed from a new version of an old pic. If it looks vaguely familiar, another version -- Festival Rose -- was posted here recently, made from the same source pic.

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IRIDESCENT DREAM

"Iridescent Dream" (12-24-13 009v9) was just morphed this morning from an old pic. What to say about it ... nothing much that isn't obvious as it's so heavily fudged with in Photoshop. And the usual comment that I've made several other versions today as well. I was definitely chasing "something" through the various versions. But I didn't catch it. That butterfly (which is what I initially saw in the earliest version) has fluttered away. Leaving me with this vaguely iridescent dust, only a distant echo of that on its wings. (Ack! Forgive the moodiness. In another month, at least my S.A.D. will have begun to ease.)

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'ROUND & 'ROUND SHE GOES

"'Round & 'Round She Goes" (4-3-14 015v2) was cropped recently from an old pic, and very little else was done to it. I increased the color saturation a wee bit and decreased the midtones to drop out some background "schmutz." But that's it. A rare creature in my ever expending zoo: a realistic pic that's had almost nothing done to it. Well, I think I also diffused it a bit to clarify it. (Diffuse to clarify? Sounds strange, doesn't it. But "anistropic diffuse" often nicely clears up edges. [And applied several times makes wonderful fluted edges.] I've now googled anistropic diffuse twice and although it made sense as I read about it, it fell right out of my lazy brain cells.)

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FESTIVAL ROSE

"Festival Rose" (4-3-14 016v8) was just morphed yesterday from a year and a half old photo. (I also made several other colored and textured versions. One is posted to my blog today, here.) Nothing much else to say about it since it's so obviously massively fooled around with. I will add that I actually flipped the original pic (after cropping) on its head as it just didn't work right side up. Interesting how that happens. Though in this case I must admit not even the original quite works in its natural orientation.

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DENIZEN OF THE DEEP

"Denizen of the Deep" (5-18-11 10998v3a) was just morphed this morning from an old photo. I'm a sucker for these bright colors, especially when on black. I was also happy the "surface blur" effect worked as it did in combination with the filter called "glowing lines." One of the things I've been doing much more is taking pains to adjust any particular filter's effect when it has such options. In this case, thickening the "glowing lines" ever so slightly, and taking quite some time to see which combination of radius and threshold changes under the "surface blur" filter I wanted. BTW, there are many other filters and such underneath these I've just referenced. These two were just the last and offered the finishing results. Ooops, tell a lie, I also decreased midtones to drop out an excess of hazy background lines, which increased the contrast between color and black.

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BRUSH PAINTING

"Brush Painting" (5-18-11 10994v4) was just now morphed from a very old photo. I "kinda, sorta" like it. I kept trying to move it more toward softness but it just didn't seem to want to go there. So scratchy and sketchy it is.

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