Silke Workshop Photos Received

Spring Dreams (64)
Silke

(23588)

Well I gave it a whirl

shelbeesmom

(47898) [2008-03-04 07:49:28] [3]

I used my cloning tool and went up alot of steps, hardness and opaqueness ...now I'm not real sure about the flooring, but you can get away with alot with wood. So what do you think?
Hope you aren't mad at me!
XOXOXOX
Linda

United Kingdom

Fox Inn, Corfe Castle (134) *
Silke

(23588)

Alternate view

(23588) [2008-03-01 10:05:41]

This may give you an idea just how tight a space I had to work with. Capturing the castle without including the cars would have been impossible!
The streets are delightfully romantic, but not much fun to park on :D

Texas Agate (50) *
Silke

(23588)

sharpened & signed

(23588) [2008-02-26 14:08:45]

Oops -- I did it again!
I was in such a hurry to post this for Linda that I uploaded the unsigned, unsharpened image.
Sorry folks
:(

Onions in Stone (50) *
Silke

(23588)

sharpen

(23588) [2008-02-21 12:50:06]

It was bound to happen -- I forgot to sharpen before posting and what a huge difference that can make!!

Title: Macro Hearts: Experiment in LightingNikon D-70s

Macro Hearts: Experiment in Lighting (70) *
Silke

(23588)

PSP X

Refugee

(25542) [2008-02-19 15:30:52] [2]

Applied fill flash filter (strength 25, saturation 5) then applied digital camera noise removal (noise 50, blend 70).

Macro Hearts: Experiment in Lighting (70) *
Silke

(23588)

shaping the stones

(23588) [2008-02-18 20:24:36]

This is a close-up of my mother's hands as she shapes a stone by holding it against a rapidly spinning grinding wheel. there are four wheels on the machine with progressively finer grit on each wheel.

Title: (^o^)To Your Health (^o^)Nikon D-70s

(^o^)To Your Health (^o^) (84)
Silke

(23588)

before cloning

(23588) [2008-02-12 05:22:49] [+]

Here is how the apples and the plate looked before I minimized the highlights and clones out the back portion of the plate

Title: Good Health is No AccidentNikon D-70s

Good Health is No Accident (64) RP
Silke

(23588)

unframed

(23588) [2008-02-06 11:04:31]

This is the version of the final without the frame for the purists who dislike frames :D

A Taste of Summer (94)
Silke

(23588)

expand canvas

(23588) [2008-02-03 10:31:04]

Thanks to Richard and Anneke for the valued advice on this image. I was able to simply expand the canvas on the top and the left to permit me to recrop it. Now it has an equal amount of space above as to the right. I hope you like the result

Cheers

Silke

Heat Signals (52)
Silke

(23588)

Softening

PierreFrigon

(15465) [2008-02-01 09:33:33] [4]

I took the WS photo you provided (thanks) and added a layer to hide the BG a bit,
Then on the top layer, I erased the BG to shoe the black BG underneath.
With a soft eraser (size=50, Hardness=1,Opacity=50) I erased all around the yellow pepper to soften the edges.
Hope you like it
Pierre