the prompt was ‘smooth’ - I thought of many things including ice, smoothies, chrome and polish. Then I remembered the Sade song ‘smooth operator’ and paired it with a photo of the magnificent male tiger at Auckland zoo and added a few Photoshop Element effects.
Hush ….
my first real play with overlays and blend modes. Didn’t quite get the look I had in mind but stuck to my rule of playing with these prompts for only an hour. I will definitely be experimenting with overlays more.
More PhotosShop Elements fun with a photo for the ‘full bodied’ prompt – I gave body to a shadow photo using lots of bevel. The idea of shadows being full-bodied conjures up lots of interesting ideas.
For the assiduous Creativity Bootcamp watchers out there – I didn’t do the ‘drizzle’ prompt due to lack of inspiration during the 2 hours I was near my computer (and therefore chosen medium).
I’m going to miss the daily prompt to play
Used the ‘ornament’ prompt to play with the range of bevel effects in Photoshop Elements and discovered some that I will definitely use again. The background of stapled swatches comes from K Pertiet at Designer e Digitals.
The word prompt from Creativity Bootcamp today is ‘fly’ and yesterday’s was ‘fluid’. Enjoying using the tools available inside Photoshop Elements to get different looks. Happy with how the bootcamp is leading me to play with different techniques and looks each day. Two responses in this post.
First up playing with the prompt ‘fluid’. Used just fonts, including a dingbat, and the bevel tool.
And a totally different look for today’s prompt ‘fly’. Mostly using the magic selector and opacity again. The photo of the bird was supplied by my bird watching Dad and I had the other two in my photo library. The sentiment was something I was talking to my Mum about earlier this week – so another ‘F’ – family comes into play too.
Really enjoying the word prompts and seeing the range of ways that people respond. I haven’t been doing the journaling prompts at all but feel that what I am doing is enough for a daily activity.
today’s prompt in creativity bootcamp was ‘grow’ and the journaling prompt started by thinking of music from your youth. My thinking about the concept of ‘grow’ went along the path of ‘growing up’ and soon merged with music from my early teens which by then I was signing.
This is what I made
for those of you who remember the song
and for those of you who were not watching Top of the Pops on the BBC every Thursday evening in 1974
here is the song in all its seventies glamrock splendour – good memories.
day 3 of bootcamp and the prompt was ‘multilayered’. Now as my chosen medium is photoshop elements I could have done pretty much anything because the real magic and reason for its popularity is the manipulation of multiple layers. So I thought more broadly about layers – cake, rock, personality – that last one seemed a goer.
I used 27 photos of myself taken in 2nd half of last year. I ran the Pioneer Woman action called soft and faded over each one then cut a zagged oval and reduced opacity, mostly to some where in the 30-40% range. And then I piled them all up, pretty haphazard.
It is interesting, different, something I have not done before and totally multilayered.
for this bootcamp we are asked to choose one medium to use for all prompts during the fortnight. I’m going with photoshop elements – not always including a photo. I want to play with the techniques and enjoy the journey rather than focus on the end result. I am also putting a one hour time limit on the play and not allowing myself to go back and start again once I have started responding. So I will not be sharing all of my images.
The 2nd prompt was picnic and here is the result of my play.
