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<\/a><\/p>\nAnd here is the way the leaves turned out. On the right, image I added a light effect to look like there was sun shining on the center of the leaf pool.<\/p>\n
I had planned on doing something for Halloween, but got sidetracked on a number of other things. One of these side projects was creating a pattern using the leaves from last weeks post. I got it done, decided it needed to become a stencil, and while working on the stencil, found images that I wanted to turn into stamps, and started down that path. Long story short, it was like the children’s book- “If you give a Moose a Muffin”- where I finally circled back to the original project of the leaves, but that left me with no time for a Halloween project. So, that will need to be put on hold until next year \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
In my leaves experiment, I was working with a Gelli Arts print in Photoshop\u00a0to add some color to my leaves. I also had another print that I was using to try to give the illusion of water, so it would look like the leaves were floating on a pond. In my mind, I wanted to make the leaves look as if they were swirling around on the water. So I used a filter from the Filter Gallery (Distort-Wave). I was on the wrong layer and instead of rippling the water, it rippled the layer that I was using to color the leaves. I loved the way it turned out, although it wasn’t what I had planned originally.\u00a0It looked like marbling.<\/p>\n
Here was the print I started with for the leaf color:<\/p>\n
And here is the way the leaves turned out. On the right, image I added a light effect to look like there was sun shining on the center of the leaf pool.<\/p>\n Try one of the distort filters and see what you can come up with!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n