Monday, November 21, 2011

Every Monday Needs A Little Surprise

Hi there dear friends - hope you all had a great weekend and are happily bravely greeting another Monday!  :) 

I did a little experimenting with the new free texture called Gratitude 2.  If you didn't pick it up yet, you can do so by going here.







Here, Gratitude 2 is applied to a photograph of branches of red berries against a blue sky.  This application was blended in Difference at 95% opacity.




 Look at the surprise I had when I tried the Blend Mode Hue (100%) opacity.  The background seemed to divided itself into arcs of color without my needing to do a thing!  Love the effect!  The word 'gratitude' also disappeared with the use of this blend mode, without my erasing it.




 Here's basically the same effect using Saturation Blend Mode at 100% opacity.  I love sweet surprises on a Monay morning.  I hope some of you will let me know if you get similar effects with this texture in those two blending modalities.

Keep your eye out for another free texture coming soon.   And don't forget ... this week's Photo Art Friday is an easy one.  Simply link up a piece of photo art from your archives that has never had the attention it deserves.  Easy peasy!  :)  See you soon.

Sharing with Lisa Gordon's The Creative Exchange.
Posted by Bonnie Zieman, M.Ed. at 8:26 AM
Labels: ,

16 comments:

  1. DeborahNovember 21, 2011 at 8:58 AM

    This is a great texture Bonnie, thank you, and the timing is perfect!

    ReplyDelete
  2. lisaNovember 21, 2011 at 10:39 AM

    Such amazing difference Bonnie, and all very beautiful!
    I absolutely love the first one.

    Thank you so much for sharing at The Creative Exchange.

    Have a wonderful week ahead!

    lisa.

    ReplyDelete
  3. hannahNovember 21, 2011 at 11:05 AM

    Oh, the pleasure we get from unexpected surprises! Be it generously gifted textures, or the amazing results these textures give us. Toys for grown-ups :-)
    I've got to go and play now.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Sherri B.November 21, 2011 at 12:05 PM

    Wow, so beautiful! How absolutely gorgeous. Thank you so much for sharing free textures - I appreciate it very much!

    ReplyDelete
  5. Kim StevensNovember 21, 2011 at 12:28 PM

    Oh very cool Bonnie - I too love a surprise!! Thank you and happy Monday!

    ReplyDelete
  6. Grandma DealNovember 21, 2011 at 1:46 PM

    I enjoy the PS surprises. Yours are certainly beautiful.

    ReplyDelete
  7. AnonymousNovember 21, 2011 at 2:30 PM

    T have played with you Gratitud 2, you can see them at http://ankiskonst.blogspot.com/2011/11/gratitude-2.html
    if you want.

    ReplyDelete
  8. Hilda R.BNovember 21, 2011 at 4:10 PM

    Beautiful. Love it!

    ReplyDelete
  9. Nadege,November 21, 2011 at 5:56 PM

    I am always surprise by how the different mode used on the texture, can effect the whole image.
    Very cool.

    ReplyDelete
  10. JeanneNovember 21, 2011 at 7:05 PM

    Bonnie thanks so much for this great texture! Going to go try it out right now. You are simply wonderful and the textures do some amazing things to the photographs!

    ReplyDelete
  11. S. EtoleNovember 21, 2011 at 7:24 PM

    I really do need to learn how to do this!

    ReplyDelete
  12. Seraphina´s PhantasieNovember 22, 2011 at 4:47 AM

    Wonderful new textures. Great work !

    ReplyDelete
  13. S. EtoleNovember 22, 2011 at 3:33 PM

    I gave it try ... thank you so much.

    http://susan-moment.blogspot.com/2011/11/gratitude.html

    ReplyDelete
  14. AnonymousNovember 22, 2011 at 5:58 PM

    These are all really lovely! Great new texture!

    ReplyDelete
  15. June ScottNovember 22, 2011 at 6:34 PM

    Wow! What fun you had with this texture! I always run through the blend modes when applying a new texture... you never know what you might get!

    ReplyDelete
  16. TerrieNovember 23, 2011 at 8:35 AM

    I really like the first stripey sky one - I love the berry effect and the artsy sky! I'll be trying out that blend mode..... (thanks for the texture!)

    ReplyDelete

All comments are eagerly read and greatly appreciated.

While I do appreciate the honor, I do not accept awards or participate in assigned memes. Thanks for understanding. :)

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)