50. Purple Haze

Here is an example of me not documenting my experiments.  I wish I could tell you exactly what I did, but I know I added a cloud filter on the next to last layer at the end after color tweaking, duplicating layers, erasing, and ?

original

43. Creating Infrared Photos in Photoshop

before:

Special thanks to this video for teaching me.

So fun, I had to do one more:

before:

23. Filter Experiment

Here is the self portrait I took today for a Richmond Photography Meetup monthly challenge. I tried lots of different artistic filters.  This is what they did:

Original

Emboss at 90 degrees

Diffused Glow

Dark Strokes

Plaster

Patchwork

Watercolor

2. Recreating a Bar Code

For this tutorial, the instructor applied a bar code to a lemon.  Since I'm trying to use only my images, I went with an old SG 365 self portrait and used my forehead.  The most challenging part of this exercise for me was warping the bar code so it didn't lay flat across my head. 

It's not perfect, the ends are a bit pixelated, but I learned about transforming and warping.  Try it out! What would you like to see a bar code on? Feel free to post comments on how this could be improved and/or your personal bar code experiments.

Welcome!

Thanks for stopping by! 

Earlier this month, I wrapped up my Snow Globe 365 project and feel the need to keep learning and creating, so I'm teaching myself Photoshop.  I will begin this project on 1/1/12, but have already started experimenting.

Happy New Year! 

May 2012 be the brightest yet.