I know there are plenty of artistic folks on here. So go ahead and add your photoshop'd hoyas. Or any hoya pic that you feel is a master piece. A note about the picture and technique would help.
This could be fun!
My photoshop'd Hoya publicalyx 'garden jungle' was taken today around 7pm as the sun was setting.
I used the macro mode, and photoshop'd it with increasing the red pixels and decreasing the green and blue pixels.
WOW!!!
Have you ever visited the Photos forum?
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/f/photos/all/
The "solarize" function, under "enhance" and "adjust color" (in PSE6) is usually interesting. You can get similar results using the "curves" function.
This is H. wayetii.
Wow, Ric ... That is an Awesome picture! Really pretty.
I have no clue how to use photo shop .... my husband uses it sometimes but I've never had the patience to play around with it.
Mark: That is wonderful ... it really is psychedelic looking! A truly Amazing photo ... I would never have recognized it as a hoya. Love the colors in that one!
Great job you guys! Those would make really great framed photograph's!
Can we see more, please?
Mark that is really cool. I love the flower child affect.
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here is a krinkle 8 with very low color saturation.
Ok .....I think I have too much time on my hands.......I'm feeling better after suffering from an awful migraine all day. So here is another photoshop'd Hoya. Its hoya clemensorium. Not really sure how I got to this image. But it took about 5 steps. It looks like a floral fabric print to me.
Ric, when you have too much time on your hands there is no better toy than photoshop!
The filter gallery is great to experiment with. My favorite tool is the "cutout" filter, which reduces detail and color so that the image looks as if it were cut out of layered construction paper.
This is an unidentified species similar to H. finlaysonii.
Lovely photos, Ric and Mark.
Mel
Ric & Mark, love the photos!
H lobbii, I am not sure what I did to it.
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H pachyclada, negative & grayscale was used.
H pachyclada, bubble was used twice.
I am so impressed with all of these! Any one of them could be framed. Mark, the top flower in your wayetii photo looks like a cat/vampire/bat. Was that you or was that the real thing? Amazing! Cathy
Jan, the "bubble" photo looks great! I've never used that one- I'll have to experiment with it.
Cathy, that's the was the photo came out. I only altered the colors.
Wow... you guys are FAR too idle!!!! Keep it up!
Ok Carol, I know you got some great fotos :)
Here is Hoya publicalyx altered foto
Wow, H. pubicalyx looks psychedelic. I love the photo.
Ok, here is the black multiflora.
oops!
WoW beautiful!!!!
Ric, That H. pubicalyx photo is great .... Looks like an abstract watercolor painting!
Sunshinesw: Wow, that is interesting ... blue black multiflora ... I like it!
Y'all are really into this, I'm loving these "altered" hoya pic's ... keep em coming!
Sunshinese: I love the lobbii pic. It looks like it would make a beautiful summer frock if it was fabric.
Maybe you folks should go into fabric design. The pics are all fantastic. I'll have to try it myself.
I don't have Photoshop but have Elements. That's hard enough to figure out at my brain age.
Love these!!
I swear these grew and bloomed this way ;) *wink*
Fun idea for a thread. Here's another I just made.
Ric, thanks for starting this thread. I almost had forgotten how much FUN Photoshop is!
A leaf of H. aff finlaysonii with the "cutout" filter:
Same leaf with another filter:
same leaf with the "plaster" filter:
And with the "glowing edges" filter:
Mulletman,
Love the pinwheel hoya. That would bew a fun hoya to grow!
Mark,
Love the leaf pieces, they look like lanscapes taken from the sky.
What attracted me to hoyas at first were the leaves. I received ten hoyas in a trade. It was a mistake, the lady had a bunch of trades going on and switched the addresses. When I opened the box I saw ten different cuttings......the leaves all looked very different. I had no clue to what I had just received so I researched it and found many more hoya species with a wide variety of leaves and flowers. So began the madness. It will be five years in September. Maybe thats a topic for another thread.
I could sit and do this all day.
I'm loving all this Hoya Art! I really think a lot of these photo's would be perfect blown up and framed!
lin,
If you see one you like let me know. I'm sure we can work something out :) LOL Perhaps a few Strep leaves or Episcia stolons for a custom Hoya print could be arranged.
Next on my list will be a piece done in the style of Warhol's Marilyn Monroe pop art pieces. I've just got to kick out the in-laws that came to visit for the weekend and I can get crackin' on some new photoshop pics.
It's nice to have a forum topic that's not too serious and doesn't require me to have on my thinking cap.
Here I did a Posterize then edited the colors down to 2. This is Blue_Eyes Cinamommifolia, since I don't have any Hoya flowers to play with.
BTW, this was not done with Photoshop, it was done with The Gimp, the freeware Photoshop killer.
Oops!
Andrew, how did you do that last one? Cool.
Oh, that one is really nice! Love that red!
Love that red as well. Anyone know what hoyas have the redest flowers?
RIC
What I did was take The Gimp's posterize tool, and play with it until I was using only 3 colors: Red Blue and Green.
The blue was distracting to me, so I then hand edited all of it out, replacing it with a green or red shade close to the adjacent ones.
If you are interested in playing this game and don't have Photoshop, try The Gimp at www.gimp.org. I see a development release is out, don't try that unless you know what you are getting into. Just take the last final release.
