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Notes for Photoshop Elements 14
This is the third spread in a new album documenting my daughter's recent trip to the Philippines. (As in the others, I have omitted the journaling, as it comes from my daugher's private text messages to me.) Once again I stuck with the template, duplicating one frame to contain one more photo. And this time, instead of using the Oasis Brush Set #2 (my go-to embellishment for this album), I used my daughter's jungle photo in a Fotoblendz to continue the palm tree theme down the centerline. The hard part about this spread was dealing with the photosmost were taken from the back of a motorcycle so there was lots of blur involved. I decided at the outset that I was going to just accept it and call it painterly, but I was really grateful for the stains and texture in the masks, which made the photos look better than they were. In addition, one of the photos, from an airport photobooth, had a gaudy orange and yellow trim, colors that I then had to integrate across the rest of the spreadin addition to recoloring stains, I also added the Multimedia Sun to help to balance out those warm tones against the cool colors that dominated the rest of my daughter's day. I also liked how the paper part of the sun worked well with the Southeast Asia theme of this album.