Paintings from photos group contributions

This was an exercise in doodling in Photoshop Elements! Starting from the adjoining photo of rope and other shore detritus the image has been rendered unrecogniseable, so I decided that the little section in the middle of the curl should be a window back into the tangled mess that came before. If you can work out which effects have been used I shall be surprised. There are some obvious ones like 'twirl' and 'chrome', but most of them I can't remember and I certainly couldn't repeat the process!

The other of two photos of life in our local pond - with something of an oriental look to them. The pond is on a chalk hill, hence the milky look to the water.

Two photos of life in our local pond - with something of an oriental look to them.

Is this abstract and geometric enough for the 'Geometric abstracts' group? Perhaps I shouldn't say what and where it is, because that means it isn't abstract anymore.

This was taken on a sunny afternoon with the high contrast lighting that brings.So into Photoshop Elements for a bit of fun. The dark bits have got lighter. The light bits have got darker. The coloured bits have been saturated. Edges have been 'found'.

This was constructed from two distant shots taken from inside a Docklands Light Railway train. The buildings' background was a plain sky, so the piles of digitally created sugar were added for my own amusement.

A Photoshop creation using a cropped version of a photo recently uploaded here, of the Cuckmere Haven old Coastguard Cottages, with storm 'Katie' giving them what was probably a fairly mild wash, compared with her activities over the previous night and morning.

The bright Sun on the dried wheat stubble caused a bit of glare, so the contrast has had to be played about with in Photoshop, but I quite like the effect.

To see the original image please see www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/46641966 As far as I remember this version was created from two layers, with the top one 'skewed. by dragging the top-left corner about two thirds of the way across the top edge. The two layers were then treated to different colour gradients and filters, before being merged.

This was given a dry brush treatment in Photoshop

This is a long-distance shot of sailing boats from the Newhaven & Seaford Sailing Club, with the Newhaven light-house in the back-ground. The 'paint' effect was created by the simple process of pushing the Photoshop 'saturate' slider right to the end.

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Staying away from home for a couple of nights, I had my camera in the bedroom and thought my clothes parked on a wicker chair overnight might make and interesting still-life. Actually they looked boring, so I cranked up Photoshop and this is one outcome. another is next door. Maybe they are still boring - but more colourful and the patterns and textures are more pronounced.

Retail - as in supermarket trolley. In need of therapy - abandoned in the river and then treated to colourful, but somewhat schizoid make-over!

One bike - three different Photoshop treatments.