Its cherry harvest time in my family and my daughter Jackie took these photos while she was drafted to be bucket girl, hubby was shorthanded. That means she has to take the filled buckets down to the waiting trailer that is hitched to the tractor in the orchard. You know youve done a days work. These are Ruby cherries. They are the sweetest, most delicious eating cherry!
ArtPlay Palette Noble
ArtPlayPaletteNoble
Framed Masks No. 3
FramedMasksNo.3
ButtonThreadz No. 2
ButtonThreadzNo.2
TissueTextures No. 6
TissueTexturesNo.6
Dripped Stains No. 6 (Retired)
ArtPlay Palette Hearth
ArtPlayPaletteHearth Deniim
FotoGlow Mix No.2
FotoGlowMixNo.2
Photos: Jackie Houston Reed
Fonts: Spiff and Coming Home Regular
Process Notes: Starting with solid paper 3 and using the psd version of the framed masks, which come in layers, I placed the photo of the full buckets of cherries above the the bottom layer of the mask and clipped it down. Duplicating the photo two more times and clipping them to the two remaining layers of the mask. I decided to keep each layer on Normal blend mode because I like the lighting of the photo. I did add a small glow along the right edge of the photo and blended it to Overlay at 55% opacity.
Above these layers I added the second photo she took of the cherry tree branches. I brought it in, resizing it to fit the way I wanted above the first photo. A little trick I learned when composting two photos, is to turn down the opacity of the photo Im working with so I can see through to the photo below to position it exactly the way I want it to the first photo. In this case I wanted the cherries still hanging on the tree to appear like they are falling into the bucket on the left side of the composite.
I turned the opacity back up to 100% and added a reverse mask and brushed the photo in with Annas artsy blends brushes. This photo I duplicated once and used the poster edges filter and used Lighten blend mode with 49% opacity. Again I really didnt want to mess with the lighting of the original photo.
I added transfer 3 to the upper right corner, an overlay at the upper right corner of the cherry branch photo and another of the left edge, a tissue texture along the bottom of the first photo and another overlay at the right edge of the page below the transfer.
From there I added the stains to represent cherry juice, the splatter from the Palette recolored to red and the elements and called it done.
