Back-lit Leaf

[denise ippolito]

I added a Topaz Simplify filter which I adjusted to a very low opacity. Then blended it using the Difference mode. I painted in some of the veins. I then added a slight midnight filter in Nik's Color-efex.

My laptop crashed w/ all my images in it yesterday so I had to download this one from my web-site. I hope the image quality holds up.:(

[Barbara Kile]

Wow - electric! Love the vivid blues and reds. Hope your images get retrieved!

[denise ippolito]

Thanks Barbara, This is my second laptop to crash with all my images in it. I'm just thankful that all the images I took from my Florida trip were downloaded to my main computer the day before. I lost all of my creative images from the beginning of the year-but I haven't lost all hope. My friend is still working on it.

[Barbara Kile]

There are people who can recover the data - so if your friend doesn't have any luck - check around. I remember Tony Sweet had a laptop crash a few months ago and he said, 'If your images aren't backed up in 2 places, then they don't exist! (He had a backup laptop with him thank goodness).

[denise ippolito]

Great advice.:):) I haven't given up hope yet.

[Kora Baker]

Wow, this is electric, denise! Really jumps out. Blue and orange combo is a sure winner:) K

[billymoore]

Denise, I love your leaf, for some reason It reminds me of a blood artery in the body, I do watch a lot of tv. <g

[denise ippolito]

Kora, Thank you for the kind words.

Billy, It is good to see you here in the forum. I agree it does look like an artery.:)

[Indranil Sircar]

Very nice effect, Denise. It does look like arteries! Sorry to hear about laptop crash. Hope you can recover all the images. If the hard drive has not failed, you can put it in an external hard drive enclosure and connect it to desktop to access the files for backup.

[Paul Lagasi]

Nice usage of a leaf, looks like arteries for sure., the blue and red, go well together..good luck with laptop

[denise ippolito]

Indranil and Paul, Thank you both for your support. Hopefully my hard drive did not fail. Should find out today:)

[Julie Kenward]

I love the leaf image, Denise. Perfect positioning in the frame and nice, bold colors. Lovely work.

I, too, lost everything to a motherboard crash but was able to retrieve the hard drive - I had already lost half a year's images a year before and couldn't imagine going through that again. Now I have my handy dandy carry it with me hard drive and will be buying another one as a 2nd back up - because the feeling you get when the darn computer crashes is the WORST feeling in the world. I can't go through that again!

[Christopher Miller]

Lovely composition, Denise, and I love the electric blue and orange colors. Hope you can recover your images.

[denise ippolito]

Thank you Julie and Christopher. I appreciate the kind words.:)