Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Edit Me - Flag Oil Painting

I really, really had fun this week with the Edit Me challenge over at My Reflection of Something! On last week's challenge the very talented Ashley Sisk used a super cool Photoshop plug-in called Pixel Bender to create a kaleidoscope out of the photo. Instantly I knew that I had to get the plug-in and start playing with it myself! 



First off, I flipped the image so that the flag was flying towards the right. I wanted to have some contrast in the sky, so I added a layer & mask to get a sky with some clouds and different tones of blue. I then used liquify to add the swirls to the sky...sort of like a Van Gogh painting. Finally I used the Oil Painting effect in Pixel Bender. I absolutely love the finished project and I had so much fun learning how to do it! What do you think?

Here is the original photo:



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9 comments:

  1. ShoniJune 29, 2011 at 4:51 PM

    Very nice! Do you know if Pixel Bender works in PSE?

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  2. EMilyJune 29, 2011 at 5:06 PM

    oh cool! That pixel blender effect is so neat. Great edit!

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  3. The Harding FamilyJune 29, 2011 at 9:08 PM

    I love it!!! Jenn you are one talented lady:)

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  4. Amy HJune 30, 2011 at 7:35 AM

    Wow, that's a very cool edit! Very creative!

    Re: Shoni, no Pixel Blender doesn't work in PSE, but Adobe does offer a free program that basically does the same thing. Ashley Sisk posted about it recently: ashleysisk.com

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  5. Pam BowersJune 30, 2011 at 10:16 AM

    It's such a cool technique. It makes a very pretty sky.

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  6. Dressed in DelightJuly 1, 2011 at 1:12 PM

    I love this! VERY FUN edit!!

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  7. KristinJuly 5, 2011 at 10:18 AM

    Love your edit!

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  8. BransonJuly 6, 2011 at 6:18 PM

    Love the effects, love the quote, just LOVE this edit!

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  9. UnknownJuly 7, 2011 at 12:31 PM

    thank you, thank you, thank you everyone! I LOVE pixel bender! ;-)

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