Creative Editing Part 1: Impressionism

 Inspired by a photo of my dear friends in a replica "Monet's Garden" at the Garfield Park Conservatory, I set out to learn how to create an impressionist image.  For this first tutorial, I used the directions on Graphics.com, with a few tweaks of my own.

Original image:

Impressionism #1: (straight from tutorial)

 

 

#2 (Experimenting)

#3 (More artistic)

#4 (enhanced #3, increased brush strokes)

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Happy couple

in my spiral ring notebook: White people

in my spiral ring notebook: White people: [...] I've seen rain turn into snow then back to rain, and I've seen making love turn into fucking then back to making love, and ...

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Engagement!

Finally!  Time to take photos!  Almost done with Grad school... Can't wait to buy some lenses and such.


Congratulations to my friends Kacy & Tom on their engagement!  So happy to catch this on film.