Under the bridge

An interesting log.

Shadow of a Baby

Rising

Alien Sand Sculpture

Hats on a Fence

Cameron Falls

Canada Day Fireworks

Still Waters

A Little Boy's Love

Beautiful Eyes

Two Tigers

Sasketchewan Racing Sheds

Mossy Log

Jon's Favourite Picture

Throwing Sand

Sunset

Before:After:

This is a photoshop version of something called The Orton Technique origonaly done with film slides but done here in Photoshop Elements. It kind of makes a dreamy artistic effect kind of like a painting. I really want to take some other pictures with this in mind. This is the only one in my library I could find that I wanted to use this on. The effect does not feel quite as dramatic on the smaller size photos here but you get the idea.

Standing Alone

Watching Together

Before:

After:

This was after playing with a tutorial that I found here . The effect was not quite as dramatic as the example he used. I did not quite follow it to the same extent that he did. It was fun trying to figure it out too as he used photoshop and I used elements.

Sweet Potato

I know I have already posted this one on my other blog but hey I like it so you get to see it again.

Great Grandfather

Sleeping Beauty

When I created this I wanted to apply an effect to the background while keeping the flower crisp and natural. This took a little frustration in figuring out the best way to seperate the two this is how I did it in the end.

• First I made a duplicate copy of the picture then I used the magic extractor to remove the background and leave the flower. Then I applied some artistic effects to the background but I did find that there was a white smucge around where the flower was that I did not want.
• Then I made another duplicate copy of the origonal and used the magic extractor to remove the flower I used the free transform to slightly enlarge the flower so that it coverd the white fringe
  
• That is about it along with some tweaking of colors and contrast.

The original is a picture of a wildflower taken in Waterton Lakes national park

In the box