waterfall

I almost disagree with Karen. To me, this screams abstract, on the pretense that it took me a moment to fully understand what it was. Outside of that though, this piece is absolutely brilliant. On first look, I thought it was a B&W, but I saw little bits of colour, which proved me wrong. Very well done!

By: kayla_ann

The Secret Of The Trees

Thank you.

First, edit your base images to your liking. From there, move your overlap image onto your background move it around to where you'd like it. With this picture, I believe I dropped the opacity to where the eyes are then created a level adjustment layer to tweak the woman's face slightly more. By all means, don't be afraid to dodge and burn a little as well.

I used a large sized eraser brush (figure maybe an 1/8th to 1/16 the total image size) , set to 0 hardness and about a 25% opacity, slowly work on the edges in long strokes till you think it's done. Doing it this way, if you think in terms of layers, you'll slowly build up translucency while keeping what you want in tact. With this particular image, I wanted to retain as much as possible whist still giving it the over all feel of a ghostly image.

It can be a time consuming process, but the way I did it gave me the results I was after.

Use this as a starting point, and feel free to tweak it to your heart's content

By: RavenTepes

Loch Linnhe 3

Very well done and extremely beautiful.

By: Irishkate

In The Orb

Honestly, it was just something fun...personal, I guess you could say. To me, it just kind of summed up our time there together.

By: RavenTepes

Dust At The River

Thank you.

By: RavenTepes

Rear

I agree...while granted, the rear is the main focus point, the hands do give the shot a level of balance and fluidity. I personally prefer the original, compared to the edit.

By: kaybee

Skin Of The Fallen

Thank you. I was trying something a bit different than what I normally shoot. I still don't have the hang of it just yet, but I'm working on getting closer compositions looking decent.

By: RavenTepes

Skies Above

Thank you for the comments. I'll deffinitely keep that in mind the next time I come across a shot like this.

By: RavenTepes

Malinbeg I

Great shot. It looks like something I would have taken, though in perspective and personal taste, I would have contrasted it a tad more.

By: Declanworld