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03/14/08 dtallakson

glass flowers

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ctfchallenge15-Mar-2008 20:10
Well done dt, the little splash of color looks great.
~Brent
ctfchallenge15-Mar-2008 17:56
Thanks for your comments, everyone. Actually, I don't know if it's selective color or not. The image is not black and white. I boosted the contrast on the image and found the color of the glass blocks and the flowers disappeared. So I applied a layer mask to restore the colors to the flowers. Penny, the image is not skewed. The block wall curves around a large jacuzzi in the bathroom. dtallakson
ctfchallenge15-Mar-2008 17:33
the curve doesn't bother me - in fact the old window kind of curves INTO the flowers, which adds interest. Did you skew this?
Penny STreet
ctfchallenge15-Mar-2008 17:33
I like the colors against the glass blocks and it never even entered my mind that this was selective color! You can always use the distort tool to straighten up the verticals and maybe crop the top a bit to bring more focus to the flowers. Nice one d! :-) CJ
ctfchallenge15-Mar-2008 16:23
I like the color contrasts. Nice shot. My engineer's eye is a bit offended by the vertical lines (not being so), but its still an attractive image, d.
ctfchallenge15-Mar-2008 15:00
This looks odd enough to be very interesting - I like the effect.
Penny Street
ctfchallenge15-Mar-2008 14:33
Very artsy, dt. ~Lydia
ctfchallenge15-Mar-2008 13:00
Normally selective coloring is a bore but it works effectively here to set off the flowers that might have been lost in a maze of normal bg colors. Of maybe I'm just becoming more tolerant of PS manipulation. -tv
ctfchallenge15-Mar-2008 08:18
this looks good - Debi
ctfchallenge15-Mar-2008 04:47
Thanks Rod! dtallakson
Rod 15-Mar-2008 03:36
Nicely done D this works really well.