It’s been a very long time since I sat down and played with Adobe Photoshop just for the fun of it. Today my stupid bag was killing me 🙁 so I sat down and started to play a bit. Thought I would share the results and encourage you to play a bit with Photoshop sometimes. Sit down and start working with no goal and see where it takes you. I have been working with Photoshop for many years now but today I learned something new, you might to.

I started playing with some brushes and effects on a blank canvas but soon brought in this image of Lydia and started playing with it.

Before

Before

The results are far from the summer evening portrait that I started out with. This is definitely not a clean up of and image so don’t take it that way. Here we move over in the realm of digital art or what you want to call it.

The result….

After

After

The effect did take some work before I got there. Having done it ones now I will for sure be able to do it a lot faster should I feel like it again.
I did a little screen shot of the layers pallet to show a little of what went in to this.

Layers

Layers

If you have any questions or comments do please drop me a line. I would sure like a bit more activity on the comments 🙂