Friday, January 11, 2013

Beyond Layers, Day 101 -Cup Challenge

Back to Beyond Layers... This week, a challenge: a cup, a book, and an accessory. The quote is so NOT me. But I liked it just the same. This is currently what my husband I are reading together at night. (Oh dear, I think we're in for it.) I used Chaos texture by Kim Klassen. twice, once at soft light and once at multiply with low opacity. Added a custom curves adjustment in the blue and green channels. Added brushwork using Grunge Swirl Brushes by me. and then took it into RadLab for a little more adjusting. Text is UglyQua and is set to multiply. see before below...
It was nice to get back to some Photoshop this week. I had been playing too much in Lightroom with editing photos and my computer gets slower if I edit from within Lightroom. sigh.... I may have to try and find a used one year old 17" Macbook Pro to replace my nearly 4 year old one.
After
Before, with just a touch of Camera Raw editing.

11 comments:

  1. This is so pretty! Great job on the editing. I love the title of that book and your vintage camera. Such a pretty mug!

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  2. Roxi, I love the transformation, stunning

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  3. A very nice composition; your home-made brushes are a great complement to the other processing elements.

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  4. I love this! I've toyed with layers, but not textures. I'm still just getting acquainted with PSE. I use Lightroom most of the time now, but you make me want to learn textures and layers!

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  5. Hi Roxy, I love both the composition and the warm and soft look your photo has (not the mention the title of your book - need to Google that at once ;-)
    I'll pin your picture at once - I will spread the happiness ... Your photo makes me smile!

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  6. Love what you do with this, especially the brushes. Great job. I am amazed at the speed I have with my new MacBook Pro 15", of course I went from a 13" to a 15" so I feel like I have so much more visual space, but I can image coming down from a 17" would be hard.

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  7. This is awesome! I played around with this prompt but didn't get anywhere...

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  8. Lovely editing I haven't got round to it yet this virus has laid me out....

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  9. Great photo and processing. Your book made me laugh, then I decided it might be worth reading for myself :)

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  10. This is just perfect...love the little flourishes in the corner...and the quote...perfect. (Although I love books, it seems more like just knowing I have a camera at the end of my day.) Super talent, g/f!

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  11. This is so very pretty, well done!

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