Photoshop

Variations on one Zentangle

August 18, 2011
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Zentangles always get their own way. I start with an idea, then before I know it, the drawing has raced off in a different direction. This one was going to be a square within a square, but it just didn’t cooperate: Not sure if I wanted to add more, I scanned the image so I [...]

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Self-similar images

August 16, 2011
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So now I’m on a roll of making self-similar images. Not true fractals, where you can zoom in indefinitely, but fractal-like. Pseudo fractals. As before, I started with a custom shape in Photoshop. The starting image was a 5 x 5 grid of circle-ish shapes. I inset it into itself twice, then used that as [...]

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Mandala, Fractal, Zentangle…Zendactala?

August 14, 2011
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On a day when there isn’t enough time to draw a Zentangle, I can still doodle in Photoshop! The fake fractals of earlier this week got me thinking about other ways to draw self-similar images. This one started from a custom shape in Photoshop, using copies of the whole shape to fill the holes within [...]

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Fake Fractals in Photoshop

August 10, 2011
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I saw a Photoshop tutorial I had to try…How to Create Fractals in Photoshop Easily. These aren’t true fractals…if they were, you could zoom in indefinitely and keep getting images. However, it does create a pretty groovy facsimile image…these are fun.

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A Partial Eclipse of the Ferris Wheel

June 29, 2011
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  Production notes: For this image, I started with a shot from my Nikon Coolpix. In Photoshop, I used curves to brighten the colors. I also used a colored pencil filter on a layer, and set it’s opacity at about 40%. The sun was isolated, and color-adjusted through the Hue/Saturation dialog.  

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Altered Vintage Photo with Photoshop

November 14, 2003
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This is a photo of my grandmother (center) with her two sisters-in-law before the latter were married…so for a brief moment in time, they were all “Turner Girls.” I retouched and colored the photo in Photoshop, as well as added the text, plaid background and daisy borders. One of my first experiments in “virtual scrapbooking.” [...]

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