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Photo Art Challenge #4

What I Did

• Opened new transparent image 800 X 1100
• Painted in background ( Blue was a gradient). Table was solid.
• Created new vector layer and drew vase. Converted to Raster level. Colored it in.
• Using freehand selector tool selected various sunflowers, leaves, and stems and placed each as new layer over vase layer. Using magic wand selected yellow of sunflower, inverted selection and erased all unwanted parts. Resized and rotated as needed.
• Since petals seemed to lake the definite that was in his painting I chose a brown tone from center and outlined some of the petals with airbrush and then smudged
• When all flowers and leaves suited me, I merged the flower levels.
• I then copied this layer as a new layer. Embossed it and moved it under flower level
• Reduced opacity of flower level to 40%
• Since embossed level was in gray and this gave flower level a grayish cast, I used "Color to Target" and colored petals an orange color, leaves a green, and the center section a combination of these and dark brown.
• I then went to flower level and adjusted saturation more towards red.
• Then with "Darken RGB" , then smudge, I worked on vase and background

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Created July 8, 2002