Lovee Maxine

Lovee Maxine

This LO just looks like a black blob in the gallery, but there's really alot going on and I'm looking forward to printing it. I extracted the kitty and since she was sitting on a tan floor I had a light outline going around part of her. So I used the burn tool around the edges until I got rid of the faint tan color. Other than that I was a matter of arranging elements and then working with the opacity!

Believe in love...

Believe in love...

First thing was to fix the photo which was very overexposed. I played with the Enhance, adjust lighting, shadows/ highlights. And then I worked a little with the levels as well to bring back the facial features. After that I lowered the opacity on the photo to let the rays element show through just a touch. I also lowered the opacity on the red charm drop and the swirl of dots. The clock element I changed the layer blend mode to overlay and then duplicated it two more times and lowered the opacity on the top one until it looked the way I wanted it to.

Last days of fall...

Last days of fall...

Took this photo and thought to myself that I'd probably never use it... but the colors just seemed to go so perfectly with the kit... Only thing that I did special to this LO was to lowered the opacity of the striped paper in the oval frame. Gave the LO a richer feel and made the photo pop more.

What lies inside...

What lies inside...

Changed the little photos to black and white using the enhance option. Did that so that they would match because he was wearing a green pair of overalls. With the main photo I used the lasso tool with feathering set at 100. Drew around what I wanted to keep, inversed the selection and hit the delete key. Then I played with the opacity until I was happy. Also lowered the opacity on the vine frame a tad.

Time for love...

Time for love...

First thing I did here was to make the ribbons under the red threaded ribbon out of the papers. I also put the white background paper under the blue one and lowered the opacity on the blue. Then I made the blue ring frame out of the blue background paper. Everything else was a matter of lowering opacity and adding drop shadows.

Maxine

Maxine

First thing that I did on this LO was to extract Maxine's ear outside of the circle frame. I made an extra third layer of the photo on the bottom that I left color and then I made the top two layers black and white. Then I erased the kitty's face on the two black and white layers. This got rid of an annoying yellow color that was behind the kitty while still keeping the color of the kitty. I also did the double layer trick on the fish bowl and erased where the ladder was in front of the bowl.

Dream big...

Dream big...

I added the tree to the background by changing the blending mode to Luminosity and then lowering the opacity. I also lowered the opacity on the scattered flowers and the leaf wreaths. Other than that I added elements and drop shadowed them to taste.