Strawberry Pitaya

[Patti Edens]

Cactus flower - Big Bend National Park.

Back on the road for me - all week this week, home for the weekend and back out again. Hopefully I'll have time to stop and take a photo or two.

[denise ippolito]

Patti, I love it! Can you tell us how you achieved this look it is awesome. I like the comp. w/ three flowers and the colors are very nice.

[Hazel Grant]

yes, good comp. Interesting contrast between the smoothness of the flowers and the sharpness of the needles. Well done. And yes, please post the procedure if you have it

[Patti Edens]

Thanks Denise and Hazel. I wish I could say I worked on it all morning, but what I did was quite :o simple.

Fotosketcher on default Brushstrokes and light Texture #1 blended back with original. I only wish I could do some of these things from scratch, but I can't beat DAP or Fotosketcher. I do sometimes overlay one of the texture photos I have and blend that in, but not this time.

Patti

[Indranil Sircar]

Patti, this is beautiful. I love the base composition. The effect of the filters makes it come out really well. TFS.

[Nick Palmieri]

Very nice effect. I wish I could see more of the center of the flower on the right but looks good as presented.

[Cindy Cone]

Beautiful composition and effects, Patti.

[Cheryl Slechta]

Patti, I love the composition and the colors. Nice work:)

[Anita Bower]

Lovely. The composition is great, and the effects you achieved work beautifully. I'd like to see the cactus needles in to lower right along the bottom a bit darker as they pull my eye away from the gorgeous flowers. This image brings back happy memories of my years in Texas and backpacking in Big Bend!!!