Study Group 11
Paula Davies

Purple Patch

How I did it -

This effect was achieved by loosely following a tutorial I found on Trimoon's website. This will only work if you haven't changed the history state with such things as cropping, colour adjustments, image mode so make those changes first and save and re-open the image.
The background layer was first duplicated and the copy layer desaturated. The desaturated layer was duplicated and inverted. The blending mode was changed to Color Dodge, which makes the layer totally white. An amount of Gaussian Blur was then added which gave an outline rather like a pencil sketch.
A new layer was made at the top of the stack which was a combination of all the layers (use Shift, Control, Alt and E or Select All > Copy Merged). The Defuse Filter was applied to this layer with the selection set to Anisotropic.
Create a new layer and set the blending mode to Multiply. The image was then painted using the Art History Brush. This is where you put your own interpretation on the tutorial.
To finish I copied the original background layer to the top of the stack and reduced its opacity to blend it in with the 'painted' layer below.

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Member's Biography
	Paula Davies FRPS, EFIAP, PSA1*, CPAGB My interest in photography began when I was a teenager but was confined to holiday snaps and then pictures of the children as they grew up. I became much more involved with photography when, together with my husband Guy, I joined a camera club near to where we lived in the South of England. Soon, being a member of one club wasn't enough and we felt we needed a challenge so we joined a second, bigger, club which had some members who entered international exhibitions and were Fellows or Associates of the Royal Photographic Society (RPS).
I started to enter the exhibitions and other competitions, generally colour prints or electronic format. I joined PSA in January 2005 and can now add the qualifications FRPS, EFIAP, PSA1*, CPAGB, after my name. After we retired we moved to North Yorkshire in 2002, partly to get away from the hustle and bustle of the South of England but also to be closer to more interesting scenery and better photographic light. I am the syllabus secretary and webmaster of Stokesley Photographic Society and also a member of the Tees Digital Photo Group. I will photograph anything which presents itself but the type of photography which most appeals to me is what I call the intimate landscape. Shapes and patterns in rocks, close-up details of flowers and tree bark. On visits to Cuba and Venice I did take some successful “people pictures” but I haven’t tried my hand at studio portraits and am generally not brave enough to ask people if I can take their photograph. It always seems easier when the people don’t speak English as a gesture plus a big smile generally gets results. Until 2004 most of my photography was with slides which were scanned before printing on an inkjet printer. I also had a compact digital camera and took some successful photographs with that. Since 2004 my photography has been completely digital using a Nikon D200. I enjoy playing with pictures using Photoshop or Painter IX and, as a result, about 50% of my photographs have been manipulated in some way. My website is www.pixelfoto.co.uk.