ArtPlay Palette AdventureArtPlayPaletteAdventure
ArtPlay Palette SplashArtPlayPaletteSplash
ArtPlay Palette LushArtPlayPaletteLush
Summer WordART No. 2AummerWordARTNo.2
Stained Edge Overlays No. 2StainedEdgeOverlaysNo.2
LightLeaks No. 3LightLeaksNo.3
UrbanThreadz No. 8UrbanThreadzNo.8
Photo: Jackie Houston Reed
Font: DJB Scruffy Angel

Process Notes: Opening the photo and duplicating it, making the copy black and white and blurring it with Gaussian Blur, I brushed the girls and some of the lake water back in with a mask and soft brush. I placed it on a new document and opened papers from both Adventure and Splash, recoloring the stains on the papers to the same green as the lake water with an adjustment layer and blending the papers together.

I duplicated the photo two more times, blending the first copy to Screen and the second copy to Soft Light, both at a 100% opacity.

After adding the circles overlay from Adventure and using the marquee tool I created a circle around the girls filling it with white. Then I duplicated the three photo layers, moving them above the white circle and clipped the copies to it, putting the circle on Multiply blend mode with 55% opacity. I duplicated the circle five more times, resizing and fitting into the overlay circles, recoloring them to the same color as the water.

From there, I added a transfer, recoloring it, a doily bumping it up with a bevel and emboss, some more scribbles and stains and splatters. The scribble at Autumns paddle was blended to Overlay. Then adding the word art and journaling, using the path tool around the circle. I brought in the butterfly duplicating it two more times, putting them on Darker blend mode. I added the threads underneath the first butterfly.

Over the girls I used the light leaks to saturate the colors with a Color Burn blend mode and 59% opacity. I recolored the stained edge overlay to the color of the water. I have no idea why the lake water is green, but its pretty. That makes up this layout.