Photo Manipulation, flower power! Options

[illumineering]

This started as a picture of an orange flower in my mother's garden. It was manipulated with Paint Shop Pro 8. It took about an hour to complete. Thoughts? Comments?

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[illumineering]

It wasn't my intent to radically change anything. I think mother nature does a fine job selecting hues, saturation, and clarity. My investment of time is nothing like the time it takes to vexel or 3d model. I enjoy playing with shapes, cropping, rotating and mirroring. That's it. I wasn't suggesting that it's complicated...just fun. It's all about the fun.

By the way, the first image I created with this simple technique was purchased by a tourist from London, England. He absolutely fell in love with the simplicity. He ended up buying 3 giclees on canvas. I made a lot of money from that sale.

Remember Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe negatives? Miro's crayon drawings? An unsigned Picasso on a piece of cardboard recently sold for $45,000.00. Ansel Adams took pictures of landscapes.

All I'm doing is encouraging others to try any technique long enough...who knows, maybe the next Picasso is a member of createblog.