Dennis Bishop
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This was going to be my first-time-ever theme image. The original shot was brown with some changes in tone because of the texture and lighting, so the Single Color theme choice seemed like the way to go. Things were moving in that direction until something made me play with blend modes, and it was no longer a single color. By the way, the photo was a macro of part of a huge log that had been tossed onto the dock by a wild storm a few days before. How long it had been in the lake or where the tree had been growing is anybody's guess.
iPhone 5s, ISO 32
processing highlights
- Adobe Photoshop CC 2015.5 (Windows)
iPhone 5s, ISO 32
processing highlights
- cropped from the bottom and flipped horizontally for composition
- duplicated, flipped vertically, and blurred to within an inch of its life; Difference blend mode (The Difference blend mode math is simple enough, but the results can be surprising.)
- These two and an adjustment layer were stamped and became the base layer for the remaining steps.
- Topaz Simplify -- saved watercolor preset
- Topaz Glow -- three saved black-on-white presets; Multiply, Divide, Multiply
- Simplify -- saved black-on-white edges preset, Multiply
- Alien Skin Snap Art -- saved edges preset using the complement of the light tan in the image, Multiply