Linking up again with Kim Klassen’s Texture Tuesday link party. Today’s theme was any photo with a pop of color. On this grey winter day, I immediately thought of flowers. I took this photograph last month while in Florida. While the photo is striking on its own without any texture, I couldn’t resist using it for this week’s Texture Tuesday submission. Not with that POP of gorgeous yellow!
Lyrical Orchid
My post-processing “recipe”:
Did slight adjustment to color balance in ACR. Brought into Elements; cropped photo and did a few adjustments to “shine” a little more light on the bloom. Added two of Kim’s textures with blending mode of Soft Light — Awaken and PlasterSquared2. Masked the center of the flower to remove those textures. I added two textures to create the frame — PlasterSquared2 and Sunkissed. Placed these behind the photograph so that only the parts “framing” the original image were visible. Merged all layers and then added Kim’s texture Sonnet_2 over the entire image. I copied the textured layer, changed blending mode to Multiply and then removed the portion of the texture over the image. I thought I was done, but I wasn’t satisfied with the yellow color, so I brought the image into Snapseed and using a control point over the center of the bloom, I increased the saturation.
What I like about this image:
I like the close crop on the flower. Close-ups of flowers always reveal something intriguing. Since I cropped the original image closely, I introduced a little bit of noise in enlarging the image. The textures added, though, minimize this distraction. I also like that “Awaken” has a few musical notes in the corners of the texture. This blends well with “Sonnet” and together the effect was my inspiration for my title: Lyrical Orchid.
Really lovely work. The flower is gorgeous and I love how you’ve used the textures – especially sonnet. I find the scripted ones tricky to use sometimes but you’ve done a fabulous job.
Beautiful photo and use of texture! Love the script too!
This is really quite lovely! (Visiting from Texture Tuesdays)
Thank you, Cheryl, for stopping by & commenting.
It is lyrical and love the subtle pop of colour and your framing.
Thanks, Sherry. Happy belated — loved your self-portrait idea.
This is lovely. Thanks for sharing the details of how you did this. I am making my way through PSE by trial and error so it is helpful to see how others create.
Stephanie, I am just learning too! I’ve been writing down my recipes as much for me as anything. What you don’t see are all of the mis-steps and start overs! I really liked how this turned out but I printed it to make a card for a friend and didn’t like it at all — way too dark.
Lovely orchid and edit.
Thanks, Nancy! I just left a voice message on your blog. That’s a cool feature!
Nice!!!
Thanks, Angie. Love the heart you posted for TT. For those reading this comment, check it out here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/54469160@N06/8447489327/in/photostream/
Beautiful effect, Anne. Well done.
Thank you!