One last picture for the rainbow challenge. Finally this month is over and I’m sooooo glad. My own concept to have a bright and saturated calendar in the end, staying in the same shade of the different colours and having a theme each week, made it so much harder than I thought. Thank you all for your endless motivation. Now I celebrate the final with a spacy blue glitter picture (and a glass of bubbly) and bottle up all those bright colours and hope they will not explode,…
Congratulations to all the other participants and finishers of the rainbow challenge.
Mona, yours is a stunning work of art. I was lucky to even find those colors in my world - still working on a couple of gaps. You have inspired me to try some new techniques, and I won't be waiting for 2018 to try them! Your whole month is one giant fav for me!
Wow, Mona, I just clicked on your monthly calendar, and it is fabulous!!!! You must print a collage of it and share it with us. You really gave this a lot of effort and it is a beautiful project.
@egoodine Hi Elizabeth, thanks for your comment. I would be a pleasure to help and I would like to answer your questions as best I can. Can you express yourself a bit more detailed and specify what exactly do you want to know?
@jetr Thank you Joan. I get such a lot of inspiration here and I am sooo glad, when once in while a can be an inspiration for others. As I admire your calendar too, I go straight to your collage and leave my comment there.
@hvansteenburgh Dear Heather, this is so kind of you saying that. But I dont think I would be brave enough to put myself in real world criticism. I prefere this more or less anonimous and so friendly site to show what I capture.
@genealogygenie Hi Kim, thanks for your comment, by the way I like your calendar much more than mine. If I would ever do it again, I would set my mind on achieving something like yours. You wonder how I achieved the same colour shade every week. First I thought, that I could do the trick in PSE, but in the end this was just a fantasy. In PS there must be an option to match colours, by using a main image as source. But I was not able to do this in PSE. Of course I did some twisting and processing in PSE and Corel Photo Paint, and did use a lot of layers to do so and change the colour "temperature" ind different parts of the pic. And I nearly always resharpen and dehaze the pictures in Picmonkey after upload, due to losing sharpness upon upload. But to come back on the colour shades, at the end I really tried to have a more or less matching colour, of the subject I photographed, and I used for example in the greens the same backdrop just with different thingies to produce a bokeh. I hope this helps, please do not hesitate to contact me, if you have further questions.
@mona65 Thanks for sharing Mona! Your process reinforces my observation of the amount of time I knew you had to invest, for 31 photos! So kudos to you for completing the month. I only have Picassa for editing (can't access PicMonkey for some reason) and I did manipulate the colors on my perfume bottle photo, but wasn't really happy with the final look as I liked the original, but it didn't "match". Again, thanks for sharing!
