Saturday, April 14, 2012

Starry, Starry...Well, Everything, Just Now...

This week in Swan Dive, we've been creating texture photos to use for layering. Below is a texture I painted last fall (when I took the class for the first time). It's sort of texturally interesting, but so far I've found that it's not entirely well suited to my photos.



A bit of playing around with it in PicMonkey and Pixlr Express, however, and I got this:



Specifically, I softened and intensified the original a bit (using the Orton effect in PicMonkey), then I took it over to Pixlr and layered on one of their star overlays two times at full strength. And now I can't stop layering it over my photos. For example:



Or this, originally seen edited completely differently here:
Posted by Amy at 2:22 PM

6 comments:

  1. Tara@AquamarineApril 15, 2012 at 6:27 AM

    LOVE it! I want to do a starry painting, right NOW.x

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    1. AmyApril 17, 2012 at 12:05 PM

      You're so funny. ;-) I actually made you a little set on my Flickr stream--images you've mentioned being inspired by, or ones that seemed like things you might like. I need to send you the Guest Pass link.

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  2. andrea mApril 15, 2012 at 11:04 AM

    I love how you are assembling craft material out of these digital electro layers. Awesome. And I want to sit, camp with the woman on the night sky rock.

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    1. AmyApril 17, 2012 at 12:06 PM

      Thanks, Andrea! You may camp with her any time--she'd be happy to share her rock with you. xo

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  3. SigridApril 17, 2012 at 7:12 AM

    Hmmm, this really does add an emotional layer to a photo, doesn't it?
    I'm going to try this for my next "fashion shoot."

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    1. AmyApril 17, 2012 at 12:07 PM

      It's an interesting exercise--sometimes it works, and sometimes it just doesn't, this layering business. When it works, it really works, though. If you ever want to use any of the layers I've made, just let me know--I'd be happy to share with you.

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