I haven't done any digital bits for a while so I thought it was about time. I keep some examples of things that I really don't like as well as ones that I do (although not as many of them!). It sometimes helps to try and work out what it is that you don't like, so that you can produce more work that you do. (If that makes sense). My start image was this rather horrible concoction of stuck together papers and brown paint stamped on with a cork so.......what don't I like? Well, for starters the colours are foul, the white panel is too stark and the cork stamping just looks like muddy blodges. so can it be saved??
I opened up the picture in Elements and started with the colours which just don't work together. I played around with variations adding lots of blue and green until it looked a bit better. The cork stamping still looked a bit splodgy and messy to I went into the filters gallery and from the Pixelate section selected and applied "Pointillise" which introduced a little order to the "blodges". Last of all I just used the elements cookie cutter tool to cut out a butterfly and there you are...!!
Truthfully, I probably won't ever use this background again, but I had fun trying to make it at least semi-presentable!!
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