A Few Digital Photo Experiments

It was a very busy weekend.  We drove to New Jersey and back to collect our son for the summer.  It is so nice to have him home again.  We also had a graduation party today and saw lots of family members.  I was too tired to work in my studio but I did spend some time with my laptop doing more digital experiments.  I have been trying out various digital effects and have all sorts of ideas about how I can combine some of these with my Cricut cuts and Design Studio files.

We had fabulous weather and beautiful blue skies both in Massachusetts and New Jersey this weekend - sunny, a bit on the cool side and not a bit humid.   I took some photos of the sky with the idea that I could create digital page backgrounds with the photos.  I really like to use a photo as the background for a page.

This is a sample from last year when I was doing digital challenges for another site.  Here is a LINK to the original post.  In this case the photo is part of the story.  I am also interested in creating more abstract backgrounds from photos.

I used my Creative Memories StoryBook Creator Plus 3.0 software and applied a filter to "posterize" the image of the sky.  Isn't this interesting?  I think it looks like water splashing now and I could use this for summer photos at the pool or beach.

I also tried applying a texture to the image using one of the surfaces built into the StoryBook program.

I cropped the image to the top left corner and here is my new background.  It is pretty hard to tell that this started as a photograph of the sky!

Here is another photograph of an orchid.  I have already done some photo editing to adjust the colors and cropped the image to a square.

After I applied the posterize filter the image looks like this.  I think this would be lovely centered on a Cricut cut frame with a few words added for a sentiment.

Next, I applied the "sphereize" filter and this was the result.

 

I cropped the image to leave just the newly created sphere.

Finally, I added some words along a text path and matched the color to a shade of pink in the photo.  I did have "fun with photos" and I now understand a few more things that I am able to accomplish using this software.

My next step will be to combine my image with a Cricut design for a totally unique and personal card.  I hope to work on this tomorrow.  I do have several big projects going on - one in particular that I think many of you will be excited to know about (but I can't say what it is just yet...).