The gorgeous wings of the Monarch Butterfly was my starting point this week. As art goes, this is already magnificent ... I can't improve on Mother Nature, but I can dabble with her idea's. I made use of the Clone stamp to expand the picture in different places. Then I added pdpa Just Peachy Texture at 50%. What I did next, I didn't even know I could do ... I used the clone stamp to pull the wing up through the texture layer. That was as much as I wanted to do ... for me this was a finished product except to play with framing. I have a preference in the framing ... do you?
In contrast with nature my next picture is a book on a man made wall shelf. Very different in effect. I tweaked the photo with PSE then used the Poster Edge Filter. I started to frame it with the orange background and found I liked it best with just an orange edging. So that is what I did.
The last picture I ran across while looking for something for Photo Art Friday. I actually used this tree on that meme, but I had applied it to this picture with the swans flying. It, once again, is a different approach to Mandarin Orange Art though because I did it so long ago, I am unsure of what I used to get the effects.
That's all Folks, as the saying goes ...
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