This has involved taking a top-down image of a flower and then using mirror distortions to create a symmetric design. In recent weeks I have been working on a project called Reflected Petals. I’ll post a link to the in-camera version in the first comment as usual. If you are the person that actually reads all of this then I salute you for your fortitude! Have a happy Sliders Sunday :) Later I did make a few finishing touches with Affinity and Nik CEfex, but nothing of particular consequence. I then created a new layer from the result and blended it back with Multiply using reduced opacity to increase the contrast. Then in GIMP I duplicated the resulting background layer, flipped the duplicate horizontally and blended it with the original layer using Lighten Only as the blend mode. To create this one, I messed around with the raw conversion creating something deeply red and structural, especially in the petals, and with lots of definition to the yellow anthers. Still, using both means I can edit and play happily on the little Chromebook. That’s the open-source equivalent of Photoshop. I’m much less impressed with GIMP though. That always seems like fun for me so I don’t mind… And I have discovered that you can get some very interesting different results with your image manglings as a result.īut it’s not for the faint-hearted: a lot of the time I have really no idea what I am doing with it. Some of the adjustments, like the colour correction ones, also use very different paradigms than those of most of the converters. Darktable is the free, open-source raw converter that’s like Lightroom but saying that rather does it an injustice.Ĭompared to the other major converters (and I seem to have gathered the complete collection for Windows over time) Darktable is so much more powerful and largely does away with the need for a separate pixel editor like Photoshop while performing all the work on your images non-destructively using the 40-bit (or whatever it is) raw detail. Originally it was a slightly off-centre image of a red camellia flower taken on holiday in Devon last year, in a land of acid soils and pretty gardens.Ī few evenings ago I spent an hour or so messing around with the raw file using Darktable on the little Chromebook.
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