UncleBuck Loc: Malvern, Arkansas

Thought I'd share another of the pink dogwoods, as a painting this time.

If you would like, Please click on the pictures, doing so will link you to the gallery page where the shot can be seen in higher resolution and full page. Thanks for viewing and Have A Blessed Day !!!

Ben's nana Loc: Chesterland, Ohio

Beautiful! none of our trees have blossomed yet...can't waitFran

UncleBuck Loc: Malvern, Arkansas

Thank you kindly, delighted you enjoyed it. Ours are almost over.

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

Nicely done.

Cwilson341 Loc: Central Florida

Nice work!

UncleBuck Loc: Malvern, Arkansas

Thank You !!

UncleBuck Loc: Malvern, Arkansas

Thank You Ken, I appreciate it !!

Fstop12 Loc: Kentucky

Nice edit. The detail looks great up close from your web page. What program are you using to paint?

Rathyatra Loc: Southport, United Kingdom

Beautiful!!

UncleBuck Loc: Malvern, Arkansas

Thank You very much !!! Forgive me for the lengthy response, but I didn't want to just say Photoshop.

Not lot long ago I spent an afternoon with a close friend of mine, an artist, reviewing many of the images I've processed in Photoshop. In part, I wanted to know what was realistic about the effect, what wasn't, and what would make the effect more realistic. The first question was concerning the oil paint filter in photoshop, and her response basically was that the image was obviously digital and not done by an artist. It was helpful to me to know what an actual artist thought of the images.

In answer to your question, thank you for asking, this was done in photoshop. I masked the subject in order to do some things only to the subject, and also used a mask of the background to do others to it, as well as the entire image receiving some of the processing, and used layer masks of either to allow me to modify them as I wanted.

In this image, I've used a horizontal and vertical smudge each with a mosaic. Paint daubs, poster edges with emboss , some dark and light brushes, 2 background textures using blend if gray and adjusted the opacity.

The detail in the image you see is achieved using 2 different copies of the original image, using the luminosity blending mode on the first at a low opacity, and the next if I recall on this one blended as soft light again adjusting the opacity, with these 2 layers placed above the effect. When I've completed all the adjustments, layer stamp and then to camera raw for some tonal and color tweaking. Once back in photoshop back to filter gallery with a canvas texture applied. Thanks Again !!!

UncleBuck Loc: Malvern, Arkansas

Thank You so much, delighted you enjoyed it !!!

yssirk123 Loc: New Jersey

Beautiful image!

UncleBuck Loc: Malvern, Arkansas

Thank You very much, Bill !!!

Fstop12 Loc: Kentucky

Thanks for the feedback. Great idea to have your artist friend critique your work!

UncleBuck Loc: Malvern, Arkansas

Thank You, you’re very welcome !!!