aironite

Hahaha..... OK, that's a different twist to a Valentine's Greeting. I like it..... NIcely done.

I must send one like that...... ............

Shaun

Here's one I adapted some time ago -

aironite

How did you do the background, Shaun?

I like the effect...

dv8

Shaun

It's a while ago...
Lifted butterfly to new layer.
Copied background layer, blurred this with Gaussian Blur, then blended it and the background
with (I think) vivid light; flattened the picture.
I usually keep an unflattened copy in case anyone asks me; but this one is one of the
exceptions, so I can't be exact.

Shaun

Continuing the last answer - here's another using similar ideas:

1 original
2 statue lifted to new layer and slightly adjusted with contrast
3 background blurred with gaussian blur
4 background copied and then blended with bottom layer using vivid light

Shaun

and then I thought, why not make the statue more bronze-like...?
5 adjust colour
6 slight twinge on the contrats again
7 and a slight touch of unsharp mask