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Challenges 9/26-Signs of Season & 10/3-Catch Up

jhbren

By jhbren

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I started this layout back in December, 2007, while taking Anna Mansfield's class about using adjustment layers is PSE. The task - challenge? - was to apply a gradient to a photo, blending it into the background. I had trouble fitting the gradient to the layout I envisioned, and set it aside - for several years! Although we don't have much fall color yet (fall comes a bit later in Maryland), this photo is from Fort Washington National Park, about 10 minutes walk from home; I took it last year.

 

Supply details are in the EXIF file. I used Brandy Murry's brushes and video tutorial to blend the photo into the papers. I applied a narrow stroke to a copy of Jen Reed's SSPaper - Nature's Bounty, and then extracted the stroke to create a new layer, to which I applied Durin Eberhart's Pearl (gold) style, just to give the cutouts a bit more definition. And, of course, I chose that paper because it included blackberries! TFL

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Florida granny

Beautiful! You did a fantastic job on this. It was well worth waiting for; besides, we wouldn't have been able to see it if you had submitted it for homework. The colors are gorgeous and I love the brushwork. Lovely poem, too.

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Smiles

This is wonderful! Sometimes it just takes putting it away and looking at it with fresh eyes. great techniques here!

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Belle

This is awesome. I love the blending, colors, quote and especially the beautiful photo. The Nature's Bounty SS Bounty paper is lovely.

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debbys

Awesome, so glad you finished it. Everything is so beautiful. We were in Boston 2 years ago and absolutely loved the fall foliage. I never really understood what everyone was talking about until then. Your LO captured that beauty.

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