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By AggieB
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Journaling: Albany Rural is an old, but still active cemetery. It was established in 1845 to relocate all the old city graveyards. It is beautiful and very park like. There are amazing old tombstones & mausoleums. Many famous people are buried here. This one belongs to the late F. M. Duffie (not famous, just a great tombstone).
I tried to make this without all the embellishments, but the plain white was just too stark and I chickened out. I used a lot of techniques on this layout. I used the transform tool to make one wing smaller on both large butterflies and the shear tool(100) to elongate the top one.
The tombstome was created by desaturating and posterizing a color photo, then using screen mode on one of two copies to give the black & white effect.
The sky and grass were gimp tutorials - making clouds and grass by smudging.
I used: SNU_NovemberSky_Emb-Butterfly Trail, Butterfly, Butterfly3 and Fence
Scrapbook Flair last summerdays 16 and magical garden leaf
Old English Text MT and Goudy Old Style Bold Semi-Expanded fonts
Created with GIMP
If anyone is interested, here is a link to an article about the cemetery http://www.gravestonestudies.org/pdf/ARC%20Fall%202009%20newsletter.pdf
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