Theme: Painted and Framed

[Christopher Miller]

Having lots of fun with this theme, changing the colors on butterflies :). This is an old image of a painted lady butterfly on which I had used a technique known as "out of bounds" or "OOB." For those who might not be familiar with this technique, it's where you make a frame in the image and then have part of your subject extend out of the frame. Here's a link to a tutorial for anyone who's interested: http://www.flickr.com/photos/28466683@N00/153507433

For this theme, I did a color shift on the butterfly using hue/saturation and selective color and then applied the palette knife filter. Any C&C are welcome!

[denise ippolito]

Christopher, Very colorful and very creative. Thankyou for sharing you technique with us-Can't wait to give it a try.

[Dave Mills]

Hi Christopher, Normally I don't like a frame around an image but in this case you added an overlap which gave the image another dimension. The diagonal flow in the backround and the vibrant colors make an interesting and creative image!!

[Cindy Cone]

I like the way the diagonal comp here, Christopher. It works well with the OOB technique. It might be fun to try with some different types of frames, too.

[Harshad Barve]

I must say
this is super creative work
TFS

[Cheryl Slechta]

Christopher, very creative. I like the diagonal bg as well and think the frame is a neat idea.

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Cheryl

[Christopher Miller]

Thanks everyone!

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Very cool mate. I like the frame here very much. Did a great PP on that BF. Looks like a dream to me. Congrats Chris. :)