Smiling Through Hardship

[Christopher Miller]

Another idea that I had for this week's theme. I used several of my own textures on this, added scratches using the pencil tool, added some noise, used several channel mixer and hue/saturation layers to desaturate the BG and edges a bit, and added a very slight glow to the flower. Any comments and suggestions would be most appreciated!

[Kora Baker]

Nie texture work, Christopher. Love ther grunge effect which counterbalances the lovely crispness of the daisy:0

[denise ippolito]

Christopher, Very nice BG and textured look. I might clean-up the one petal as it grabs my eye.The flower petals seem perfectly placed. I love the vignette.

[Fabs Forns]

Beautiful glow to this one, Christopher, it almost looks like ethe Orton effect.

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Nice work as usual Christopher. Like the faded vignette technique you have perfected. Agree with D about the petal. Like the dark BG with the bright yellow flower.

[Christopher Miller]

Thanks everyone for the comments. Much appreciated! I didn't notice that petal, Denise. Thanks for pointing it out, I'll be sure to clean it up. :)