
Swirling Leaves



At the counter in a cozy restaurant in Southern Wisconsin.

Started with some photos I took at the Orchid show. Erased the backgrounds and scattered them around one of my textures and added some leaves.

Played around with various tools and filters. Finally softened the image and added a texture.



This is the original throw-away photo I started with. I cropped it; then did some re-shaping and added a poster filter.

Then I scattered some of my photos of leaves around the image.

Last of all, I changed the colors and added some texture,







Started with a shot of my husband’s white slacks( so he could see how loose they were) 😉 Then I started playing around with lots of different filters, tools and textures. ended up with the image below.





