Twirling Out of Control

Just had some fun trying out a technique shared by one of my Photo Club friend Joe. Apparently this twirling technique was quite popular several years ago and it creates some really interesting results. This image started out as a macro image of purple and white pentas growing in my front yard. By adding several Radial Blur, Twirl, and Mezzotint filters, this interesting combination of lines and swirls is created. Here are links to two short and interesting videos on how to create this effect if you would like to try it yourself: The first by Steve Patterson is very well done and is called How to Create Abstract Twirl Effects in Photoshop, and the next one by Jay adds some more ideas to enhance the effect and is called The Twirl Effect Using Photoshop. I found several color schemes that worked really good with this result and finally ended up with a light more muted effect. Try Topaz (see sidebar for website link) ReStyle for some interesting results. Guess I had better get back to really post-processing some of my images. …..Digital Lady Syd