L is for …………………………..

14 Tuesday Apr 2015

Posted by Karen in A to Z Challenge 2015

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art, fine art, food, fruit, photoaday, Photography, superfood, vegetables

There are plenty of reasons to start using more lemon and lime in your cooking, or even squeezed into your water. They can help with conditions like indigestion and constipation, and can even be a solution for fevers. Several hair and skin products also contain these natural citrus extracts in them, so it only makes sense to get on a first name basis with them.

Lemons

Leeks

Texture Tuesday: a painterly effect

14 Tuesday Apr 2015

Posted by Karen in Texture Tuesday

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art, editing, fine art, photoaday, Photography, Texture

I edited this photo using the techniques outlined in Kim Klassen’s video on her Beyond Layers course. It was a long editing session (for me that is!). The task itself was to turn a photograph into a “Painterly Effect” one, by adding textures and quite a lot of layer adjustments. The original photo was taken a year ago when we were on holiday in Canada 🙂 The edit above was edited as Kim suggested, I then went on to do a paint effect in the artistic filters in Photoshop Elements to produce the shot below, which when seen larger looks more like an old painting, so I guess I achieved the “painterly effect”. I am glad I have done this as I learnt a lot, trying different blending modes, using clipping masks and a myriad of layers.

This is what the shot was like before I went on to edit another shot with a totally different subject the before and after is below. Let me know what you think?