53. Spot Healing Brush

For the first time I used the spot healing brush to retouch the wire mesh and various brush from the original photo.

the original photo taken at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens, I titled, "Wired."

52. Palette Knife Filter

I used my landscape photo of a tree's water reflection, boosted the saturation and vibrance and then applied the palette knife filter.

original

51. Wax Figure

Using a self portrait I took last year.  I duplicated the layer, applied an orange filter, created another layer and used the chrome filter, blending them both with the color option.  I think it looks like dripping wax.

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

49. Richmond Reflection

Here I used the original image of downtown Richmond's canal walk, duplicated the layer, covered it in blue and erased it to reveal the original image beneath.

original

48. Dancer

Dancer enhanced with glowing edges filter and playing with vibrance and individual color saturations.

before

47. Cut-Out

Tonight, I duplicated the first layer, erased the background.  Experimented with different colored brushes and sizes, then duplicated the layer again and used the cut-out filter at 64% opacity.

Here is the original photo:

the experiment: