Statue Composite

This was a really fun project.  It didn't take me long at all.  Once I started with it, it just seemed to flow.  I am hoping more and more of my projects go like this one did!  The original picture was just a totally blah image of the statue with a blown out sky.  I added the fire from a photo I took a couple of summers ago and used lightning brushes.  The textures were from the Photoshop Artistry class.  The clock and mask are Anna Aspnes and the paper is Merkley, also from Oscraps.com.

Haunted House

Omg, this was sooo fun!  I just joined classes at Lynda.com and the Haunted House one was the first one I did.  Since our house was the only house I have a photo of at the moment, I practiced with that.  I will take some pictures of other cool, more haunted housey type houses soon.  

And here is the original house photo:

Seagull

I love seagulls.  They remind me of growing up near Lake Ontario and Fair Haven State Park.  I take pictures of seagulls all the time, but usually end up deleting them because, well, they are just pictures of a seagull doing not much of anything but standing there.  However, when I was in Florida last November, I got two shots of seagulls that I just love! I was learning a technique in Hummie's classes called Out of Bounds, and I thought the seagull would be perfect for that.  But, I kept going and just extracted the entire bird and did something else with it.  This is what I came up with:  

 

The image below was my first exposure to masks.  I was pretty proud of it the day I did it, but now looking at it, it's like, really?  You can do better, haha.

I worked in Photoshop for a living many years ago, but I don't believe I was ever introduced to masks back then.  With these lessons I am taking and Youtube, I have learned more about Photoshop and Photoshop Elements in the last month than I did the entire 10 years I designed!

 

 

Moon over Tyrone

I like to take a break from the scrapbooking pages and learn other things.  I was watching a Youtube video the other day of a person merging photos together, one of the photos being a large planet.  I obviously don't have a picture of planet earth or any other planet in my archives, although I have recently learned to make them, so it started me thinking about all the moon shots I have taken over the years.  The photo of the landscape was taken as I was going down the hill into Tyrone, NY last fall.  By the way, at this point in time, even though they are better quality, I simply refuse to use stock photography for my work.  They aren't MY photos.