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You are so good at these. :hugs:
Over is right... you have a great canvasy print look there.
Makes you think it was screen printed or something.
I like!
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the photo in itself is very nice. The lighting is good and everything. I assume you snipped the flower away from its original background, with the light reflections and all in the crystal. It's all very nicely done. Good job. The manipulation is surprisingly well done, and makes it look like it was actually sewn. Nice.
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Surprisingly? Glad you liked it.
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Yeah, surprisingly.
It seems like it'd be a filter job, and filter jobs normally turn out crap. If this ISN'T a filter job, then I truly apologise, but it seems like one. A good one. Which is why I was surprised.
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None of what I do is JUST a filter. Click a preset and call it art. No.
This image, for instance, was masked, to remove the background, then several layers were created, using different blend modes. Yes, there were filters done on some, and actions I have created to shorten the time taken to perform a particular task on others. I used the sharpen filter, and the hue/sat filter. I used the texturizer filter at a low setting for a final touch.
But I don't take an image and run one filter on it and call it done. I strive for a look I have in my mind as I view an image, or a theme as I combine more than one image. There's nothing I have done here or elsewhere that doesn't have multiple layers and blends.
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Ah. Good. That was sort of what I was thinking/ hoping, though I may not have expressed that clearly. I see we have the same view on use of filters, so that's good. And I wouldn't call hue/ saturation a filter. That's an adjustment.
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I commented on a thread in photomanipulation forum a while back, which expounded a bit on "one-trick pony" art - where you click on a filter and call it done - and how that gives photomanipulation a bad reputation, and resulting lack of interest to most.
I like photomanip, and that's what all of my images here are. I have tried to show a broad spectrum of what can be done starting with just a photo. I find it to be fun, and creating from nothingness more like work.
I try to learn different ways to make a photo look less like a photo and more like art. I think that we all start somewhere, and running a filter is a start. Posting that result alone as art, though, is less than desirable to my way of thinking, as anyone who has used that program and that filter can look at it and say - yeah...emboss filter, or yeah, watercolor filter - and that's all it is and that's not any different from anyone else who runs the same filter on their image.
What makes YOU (that's the royal you - you as a person in general) different is how you make YOUR art. What makes what YOU do different is NOT running a filter than anyone else can also do, but combining those filters with layers and a STYLE that results in something people can look at and say "that looks like Joe's art" rather than 'that looks like the emboss filter." I want to have what I do not seen as a filter from a program, but as MY art.
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