Yellow (?) rose of L.A.

Posted by fxmixer on Thu Oct 13, 2005 3:55 am

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This started as an orangey-red rose from my front rose bed. I wanted to alter the color and bring more emphasis to the detail inside. Selective color adjustments, selective sharpening, levels and curves played with. Interested to hear what others think.

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by Fabs Forns on Thu Oct 13, 2005 8:00 am

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Well, I love the idea.

Composition is good, no bull's eye, petals nicely around center.
Me, I would do a bolder crop and get rid of the black and then duplicate the layer and add something like find edges or neon edges and lower the opacity. Maybe even some heavy sharpening, to get more definition to the lines.
That is only what I would do, not necessarily what would work better. The reason I'm saying that is just to add
techniques to the arsenal

It's a high impact image and in my book, the artist has the last word

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by Lisa Gimber on Thu Oct 13, 2005 9:30 am

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This looks great, Marshall!

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Reposts are very welcome.

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by AForns on Thu Oct 13, 2005 11:12 am

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Do like the basic concept and would suggest to crop some from the back as Fab mentioned !!! Also if you mange to get some color in the center filaments (contrasting) would make the image pop !!!! Thanks for posting This is great

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by Gary Briney on Thu Oct 13, 2005 8:23 pm

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AForns wrote:... if you mange to get some color in the center filaments (contrasting) would make the image pop !!!!

Nice job on the color! The yellow works well to bring up the details in the center.

I like Alfred's suggestion about additional color for the center -- maybe a radial gradient layer, aligned over the flower center. The yellow-green/red-violet grad might be good.

Great image -- thanks for posting!

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by Carol Clarke on Fri Oct 14, 2005 5:02 am

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Gorgeous glowing colour for a base image and I agree that some more work on the alternative effects could really make this one sing!!

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