The Colours of Mexico

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Bright colours abound in Mexico, so I took a picture of a scarf made by local weavers and did the "Magic Circle" action. I enhanced the blues, cyans, greens, and yellow using a H/S layer. I thought it captured the spirit of the little town I visited.

[Kerry Perkins]

That's really cool Jackie! I love the colors and the treatment, very interesting. It reminds me of the structural patterns made by some bird feathers.

[Wendy Kates]

Great colors, Jackie, and really interesting texture. I really like it!

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Thanks Wendy and Kerry. Here is the original photo of the scarf.

[Hazel Grant]

Great eye you have to see the magic circle out of those diagonals. I thought at first it might be a closeup of a peacock feather. Love the colors.

[Diane Miller]

This is one of the nicest "orbitals" (or whatever they are called) that I have seen -- lovely subtlety. Thanks you for showing the original -- quire a difference!

I played with them a lot a few years ago but have managed to loose the action in some computer upgrade. I'll have to rebuild it.

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Thanks Diane and Hazel!

[gary ellwein]

Jackie, this is beautiful and mesmerizing. The colors and textures are stunning. Where would one start trying to do something like this?

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Gary, I discovered that things shot on the diagonal(with a uniform pattern more or less) produce the pretty much uniform "amazing circle". I think the steps to create it are in the Educational Resources, but no luck. We used to have it at the top of the forum, but I did find the thread, where Dianne Miller outlines the steps.

http://www.birdphotographers.net/for...ghlight=Circle

[Diane Miller]

Thanks, Jackie - not sure I could have found it myself! I can do a quick tutorial to add to ER when I get a minute.

I don't have admin privileges there so I'll have to get someone else to post it. I can put it here and ask that it be moved.

[Jackie Schuknecht]

I think that would be helpful Dianne, thanks!

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Great eye you have to see the magic circle out of those diagonals. I thought at first it might be a closeup of a peacock feather. Love the colors.

Thanks Hazel, these ARE the colours of Mexico.:)

[Diane Miller]

Those colors and a lot more! And what a gorgeous palette you picked here!

There is just something so "healing" about tropical places, and a lot of that is the vibrant color. If it weren't for the heat and humidity.... I'll settle for semi-tropical. A friend of our younger daughter in Los Angeles has her own private banana tree. That actually makes bananas. The thought of having your very own fully functioning banana tree blows me away.

[gary ellwein]

Jackie, thanks for the info.

[Dennis Bishop]

I like the before and the after. The combination of colors and lines in the original post works very nicely.

Thanks to you and Diane for the information on the technique you used. It sounds like trying it a variety of images is an important part of learning what works well. It's good to know about diagonals.