mean wrote:Your photoshop skills are really coming along! Cool stuff.
Thank you, Mean. When I got a new MacBook Pro, my old Photoshop would not run on it and I had to get a newer version. The old version
was not upgradable, so I needed a new one. I took a $99 online Photoshop CS5 course so I could get a student discount. Not only did I
pay only $200 for the $1000 software, I learned a lot in the online class. When an Intermediate Photoshop CS5 class became available,
I took that one, too. I couldn't walk for six weeks following an ankle operation and not all that well for the following twelve weeks because
of the leg cast. So everything turned out really well.
Now for this week's fare.
As you can see, I took some liberties with this photo. I applied an artistic filter to a reduced version of the original and a glass filter to a
portion of the full-sized image. Added a frame.
I spent a lot of time on this one. I liked the exotic flower, but the background almost overwhelmed it. I cut around the flower and a few
leaves and put them on a separate portion of the background, which I filtered and softened. Now the pretty flower stands out.
Just a simple crop of flower buds hiding in their protective leaves.
I applied several filters to these bananas. Notice how the background lifts up in a negative sort of 3D.
This is a portrait-oriented image pasted within a larger section of itself and the sides cut away to help hide the sharp edges.
Just a simple crop here.
And here. These tree trunks look like big shoes to me.
Not a great picture, but it needs to be here for context. It's a not-so-great portrait-oriented image pasted within a larger version of itself.
The background is a blown-up, tiny section of the back pot before I rotated the image. I have no idea how I made the frame. I just keep
fussing with things until I like the result. Sometimes I just give up and go with whatever is left.
This is one where I spent too much time and just gave up with a "good enough."
This one is not quite good enough.
Ending with a simple crop. Incidentally, I did not enhance the color. The camera mercifully focused on the tiny "flowers," allowing the
pinkish red to over bloom.
![Image](http://files.myopera.com/Roanoker/albums/9047272/148FlowersInFlower2.jpg)