Experimenting with Photoshop Filters
While there’s nothing better than a good picture or photo to start out with, we should regularly be experimenting with Photoshop Filters and Tools to know what they do and to see the effects we can achieve. It’s just like playing the piano every day… so here’s my original lavender and acacia photo with just a little reflecting frame added as I like to do :)
Experimenting with Photoshop Filters
When experimenting with Photoshop Filters and observing sometimes astonishing results, we do this for the following objectives:
1. To understand what these filters can do.
2. To know which effects can be achieved how, meaning to learn Experimenting with Photoshop Filters.
3. To be able to apply the desired effects if and when we need them.
4. To possibly find a style we like and build our visual reputation and recognition value on.
We can either change a picture very clearly and openly into something different, abstract and possibly more interesting than what we started off with – or we apply a certain effect in a very reduced and subtle way to enhance our photo, giving it a touch that just makes it different and stand out from the rest.
A number of these effects remind me of some big Masters in Art History… it’s sometimes what they built their whole oeuvre on: a specific effect. What was unique and hard labour at the time, can now be achieved with our brilliant tools in Photoshop and/or other programs, some of them developed for imitating certain masters, think of Pissaro with all those little ‘dots’ or Andy Warhol – to name a more modern one.
Lavender and Acacia Photo
For today’s exercise, I selected a lavender and acacia photo I shot a few weeks ago when both were in full flower in my garden in Noordhoek, South Africa. As I was born in Namibia, I love acacias… and I love to combine them with palms, which always reminds me of ‘home’. The fragrance of lavender and acacia combined is incredible… no wonder all the bees of the area hang out in my garden and have a feast!
And here a very reduced and delicate one… one of my favorites…
