For this week’s Travel Theme: Curves I resorted to some Photoshop trickery again to completely alter the appearance of a clump of bamboo I photographed in Bali into a curvy abstract shape of greens.
After opening the original image shown below in Photoshop, I created a duplicate layer and applied the liquefy filter and pushed and pulled the rigid parallel lines of the bamboo into a fluid, organic, abstract image. I then returned the image to Lightroom where I rotated and cropped and put the finishing touches on my “Liquid Bamboo” abstract.
Lynn Sarda
1 Sep 2012You did a beautiful job with this, Ron.
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fotograffer
1 Sep 2012Thank you Lynn. I thought you might like it. 🙂
Madhu
1 Sep 2012Love it Ron 🙂
fotograffer
5 Sep 2012Thank you Madhu.
Broken Light Photography Collective
1 Sep 2012Very cool!
fotograffer
5 Sep 2012Thank you and thanks for your visits.
adinparadise
1 Sep 2012Good job, Ron. I don’t have Photoshop, but it looks like a lot of fun. 🙂
fotograffer
5 Sep 2012Thanks. This little project was fun and I was pleased with the outcome.
snowbirdpress
1 Sep 2012When I see that photo of the banboo grove it brings back some hard memories of fighting bamboo as it takes over everything… But I must confess that Photoshop version you’ve created from the photo is lovely. I’ve never had much time to play around with my Photoshop, I use it mainly to create photo-haiga (the haiku imposed upon the image in the photo.)
fotograffer
5 Sep 2012Yes, bamboo can be tenacious, but I love it – in someone else’s yard. 🙂 I do not use Photoshop often,but occasionally it is fun to explore.
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dunden
3 Sep 2012This liquified bamboo texture looks very attractive.
Even it is a artificial process, your result looks somewhat natural.
…like a projected image on the wavy water surface…looking up from inside the water.
Great one, Ron.
fotograffer
5 Sep 2012Thank you dunden. I am glad to liked it. Not my usual straight photography.
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jakesprinter
4 Sep 2012Great liquify work 🙂
fotograffer
5 Sep 2012Thanks Jake, and thanks for all you do for the WP community.
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