Flower manip.

[Sean]

I had a go at doing a photo manip so tell me what ya think.

 

[Welles]

I've heard of Gilding the Lily, now here's Grunging the Lily. 8D

Seriously, though. I like the effect.

 

[Sean]

I'm glad you like it.
Here's a couple others I did.

 

[Moth]

Wow! Those are cool! Excellent work. I'd love to hear how you went about them.

 

[mmagikman]

I'm with Moth. Will you give us some idea on how you did these????

 

[Hatch]

Great work Patrick! Would love to see some more. Nice lighting and technique. Hatch

 

[Sean]

Thanks guys.
As for how I did them - the story goes like this. My dad was printing out some greeting cards and wanted me to do something to the flowers to make them look different. I got going and couldn't stop.
In the first one I took the lily, cut it out and put it on a grunge texture. Added a couple more textures set to soft light & multiply. Took the backround, placed it on top, blurred it and set to soft light. Along with other tweaks.
The dalias I made in colour but desaturated the backround. Placed a texture (pic of burl wood) in the back, blurred it a lot and set to overlay (I think). To give the glow I pasted everything on a new layer, blurred and set to softlight.
The one with the lilys coming out of the frame was the funnest. All I did was cut out the lilys then cropped the backround frame and transformed it. Added the reflection and shadows.
Hope you understand most of that.
Here's a example of one orig.