Butterfly Paradise

This image was created using an image by Simon Matzinger at Unsplash, one of my favorite images to use for PS experimentation. Creative Live recently had another Photoshop Week and an interesting class was presented by Simon Peter Raible on Using Photoshop to Extend Images. I had to try out some of the technique so here it is the result of one of them. If you look at the original file, it does not have near as many trees in it. Following the technique in the videos, this is how the whole background ended up with a little clean up. Several more trees were added that were rendered in PS and is also explained in the videos. A layer had to be added to adjust sunlight on some of the trees and several layers were used to add the Beautiful Watercolor Butterflies by Knopazyzy. The center butterfly was from a brush set by All Things Precious called Vintage Butterflies Set 1 – just painted underneath to add color the butterfly. The string of small butterflies of different sizes I created using a Butterfly brush my Marrielle P Kokosidou. (Created a paintbrush and setting it to a small size with Spacing at 180%, Shape Dynamics Size Jitter 24% and Angle Jitter 21%, and a Color Dynamics set to 100% Foreground/Background Jitter, a little Hue, and Purity -24%.) Some color was sprayed on them. Topaz (see sidebar for website link) ReStyle was used to get a nice overall color tone to the forest image using the Dark Goldenrod Sunset preset. It was fun to try out the new technique and work with one of my favorite subjects, butterflies……Digital Lady Syd