One artist caught my eye with a series of crane painting. The cranes were created with a multitude of colors instead of trying to use the colors found in nature. The art took the familiar shape of the cranes and transformed it into illustrations that stood out among the hundreds of crane images.
I decided to try something in Photoshop that was "outside the box" for me. I began with a dark and dreary image I created seven years ago.
I loaded it into Photoshop and began creating layers with different exposures and hues. I used various filters and overlays to modify the image. Translation - I played around with alot of differnt things until I found a combination I liked.
My final image wasn't very far "out of the box" It is similar to an early morning flight with the warm hues of the rising sun. I would look great as a large canvas print.
Unfortunately this is a one of a kind rendition. I merged all my layers without recording what I did. If I had been smart, I would at least have saved all the layers in a Tiff file.
