I'm a little handicapped at the moment. One of my programs I use with the one I made this pic of I cannot find since I reinstalled XP. It is not like me to lose something...
Anyway if I had that program (PSP5) and the program I used today (Xara X) I would have turn that picture into a stain glass picture. Like the one I did below.
It is all done in creating layers. Each layer having some color adjustment along with depixualtion and various type of fades. i.e. one fade might be bleach, or a stain glass. Some layers are traced and then effects applied. The stem in this picture is one layer that I trace by hand and then cut out of the original. (This trace is a different type of trace then the first one I mentioned.) Next I overlaid the stem on top of the previous layer after I applied the effects...and so on and so on. If I remember correctly there are about 12 or 15 layers to this picture. It took me a couple of hours to get the look I wanted.
This is the original picuture: Plants: 158 | From: St. Petersburg Florida | Registered: Jul 2004
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gardenmom32210
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WOW!! Raye that is awesome! I'm totally speechless(my husband says thats impossible )
This one is titled the Exaltation. It is one of many I did when my sister was killed. I don't think Kimmy would mind me sharing just this one with you all. Or maybe I'm sharing this as I'm just tired. I've been up for over 30 hours. (Work and all.) Don't ask me how I made it. I made it the second day after her death. I was so so drunk. I just don't remember how I did it.
I love you Sis...
Sorry all but some of you I've know enough to share this with.
Plants: 158 | From: St. Petersburg Florida | Registered: Jul 2004
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Raye, your pics are absolutely beautiful!!! You are very talented. What a lovely tribute to your sister!
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