PAF: abstract, again

Hope you're not getting bored with these photo processing experiments. I just find the process fun and interesting and endlessly surprising - working with my images and transforming them into something appealing but not recognizable....the unrecognizable is easy, the appealing, not so much! :)

Here are the images I started with:

Outside the Summer Palace, Beijing, China

Purposely blurred dahlia

Pipe at a construction site

This week I tried something different to show the process; let's see if it helps...

You can see from the steps above how changing the blending mode (that's the hard light/difference, etc notes) dramatically affected the color tones from one to the next.  Even though I didn't care for the blue green colors that I got from "difference", I kept going and the addition of the hard light mode brought back the warmer colors from the dahlia.  Though the work palette is too small, you can see I have 3 flower images stacked & erased, then I have the 2 tube pics layered on top of that and finally the two textures over everything.

Here's my final image - I kept the face sort of clear but I like the layers of color and shapes - almost like an actual collage.  Bonnie's two free textures Heavenly (enhanced the blue tones and warmed up the overall colors) and the dramatic Etched in Stone (added text) really contributed to the finished product.  That Etched one really blended all the colors together beautifully.

See how creative others are this week by visiting Pixel Dust Photo Art.....even better, try it yourself.  No harm, no foul....it's just for fun and to help improve your photo editing skills.