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09/05/2012 11:28:16 AM · #476
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09/05/2012 01:30:13 PM · #477


When I changed computers, this Action "Went away" and I never did put it back. Now that it's been printed again in the thread, I've started experimenting once more. Here is a baby step in the return journey.
09/05/2012 03:17:07 PM · #478
        
09/05/2012 03:36:19 PM · #479
Originally posted by GeneralE:

        
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These are very funky! I love 'em
09/06/2012 07:00:33 PM · #480


this was a real trip.
09/07/2012 03:45:35 PM · #481
... originally some snow-capped Siberian mountains ...
09/07/2012 07:49:29 PM · #482
09/09/2012 11:34:26 AM · #483
09/11/2012 09:27:11 AM · #484
09/11/2012 09:55:34 AM · #485
Now I can post my flip 'n blend moon:

09/11/2012 05:14:27 PM · #486
Fiddling around with FLIP n BLEND after so long away - the results are startling, to say the least.
Here are my efforts over the past hour or two. "What I did" is more or less described in the notes
but nothing particularly exciting compared to what I'm seeing in the Thread.

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09/11/2012 06:18:56 PM · #487
amazing what a few strokes of the keyboard can do to a throw away image.
09/11/2012 07:17:59 PM · #488
Originally posted by pixelpig:



I'd love to understand how you got from your original to this... the "standard" flip & blend process gives something quite unlike it. I really love the result, and would like to learn how you did it!
09/11/2012 11:54:06 PM · #489
Originally posted by kirbic:

I'd love to understand how you got from your original to this... the "standard" flip & blend process gives something quite unlike it. I really love the result, and would like to learn how you did it!

Me too ... :-)
09/12/2012 12:17:12 AM · #490
Originally posted by kirbic:

Originally posted by pixelpig:



I'd love to understand how you got from your original to this... the "standard" flip & blend process gives something quite unlike it. I really love the result, and would like to learn how you did it!


"Interesting things happen when I take the final version, copy it to a new layer, Invert it, and then blend on Difference." -- That's in the notes. I do something like that a lot also. sometimes with a double flip (H + V) thrown in the good measure.
09/12/2012 12:32:53 AM · #491
09/12/2012 01:48:03 AM · #492
Thanks for your comments!

How I did it...keep in mind that explaining it takes much longer than doing it! I use CS5 to do this, which I think of as creating a series of originals or starting points for the next series of blends. I'm not starting out with the finished product in mind. It's more fun to let it grow on its own, with a little help from me.

Original. Cropped from the original shot to make a square, & with the center in mind.

A variation on flip'n'blend which I learned from Bear_Music.
Instead of copy, flip Horizontal, blend on Difference. Flatten. Copy, flip Vertical, blend on Difference, flatten. What I did was copy, flip Horizontal then flip Vertical, blend on something interesting. Flatten. Copy, rotate 90 degrees, blend on something interesting. You get the same mathematically precise pattern, but the corners are blank, & there are no horiz/vert black lines. If you pick your crop of the starting original with an eye to the center, you can get interesting center detail.


Then copy, rotate 45 degrees, resize to 75% vertical/horizontal. I used the transform/warp to distort it a bit, then blend on something interesting to get the next original.


Copy this, then use the Transform/Warp to distort it in interesting ways. I did this twice to creat a false sense of vertical symmetry, like so

and

Now I have original #3. Copy & Invert.

(this one will be blended on Difference), copy again to create lines

(this one will be blended on Multiply).

I had to spend some time on my last original smoothing out some jaggies in the curves, then I got



Message edited by author 2012-09-12 02:04:59.
09/12/2012 03:10:54 AM · #493
Can't compete with the above!!!


09/12/2012 09:19:28 AM · #494
Originally posted by pixelpig:

Thanks for your comments!

How I did it...


Ah, many thanks for that! You are getting really creative with the process. Some really great food for thought here.
09/12/2012 10:59:31 AM · #495
Originally posted by kirbic:

Originally posted by pixelpig:

Thanks for your comments!

How I did it...


Ah, many thanks for that! You are getting really creative with the process. Some really great food for thought here.


I look forward to see what you might post. It really is fun, & a relaxing alternative to the usual PP.
09/12/2012 11:07:21 AM · #496
09/13/2012 11:39:54 AM · #497
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Copy/Invert #1, Blend on Difference. I like #2 better.

Message edited by author 2012-09-14 01:14:29.
09/14/2012 11:37:58 AM · #498

Sometimes it's hard to know when to stop.
And I may have to play with this original a lot more.
Fun stuff out of simple shapes (as pixelpig has said more than once.)
01/23/2013 05:09:24 PM · #499
Decided to try and see what would happen if I applied this technique to some random shapes ...

Source image:

F/B derivatives:

Source image: Derivatives:
01/24/2013 02:12:06 PM · #500
Shot this one a few days ago with this process in mind:
  
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