Magical by olivetreeann

Magical

Something mysterious and wonderful happened today at the pool. It was magic!
It certainly does look magical. Do you go swimming every day Ann?
June 8th, 2012  
Reminds me of the pool in that movie Coccon! HAHA You should tag this ETSOOI-1 for that challenge! Wow. I am amazed by this!
June 8th, 2012  
Cool processing
June 8th, 2012  
cool porcessing. amazing entry for ETSOOL
June 8th, 2012  
Wow, this is really quite the creative photo. Nice job.
June 8th, 2012  
Cool processing . . . definitely magical
June 8th, 2012  
Oh fun!
June 8th, 2012  
@nicolecampbell Thanks Nicole! Yes I try to- it helps with my arthritis.
@espyetta Thanks MaryBeth! I tagged it for you. I've never seen that movie- but I did think of it when I was fooling around with this.
@kerristephens thanks Kerri!
@smithak thanks Smitha! It's tagged.
@digitalrn thanks Rick- just having fun.
@kimmistephens thanks Kimmi!
@httpgeffed thanks Colleen!
June 8th, 2012  
Very very cool shot
June 8th, 2012  
@bkbinthecity Thanks Brian. I had fun with this one- applied not one, but two textures to bring out the magic. (o:
June 8th, 2012  
Definitely something magical going on there! Amazing how one can make any scene appear magical.
June 8th, 2012  
Very cool shot!
June 8th, 2012  
Amazing processing, Ann. Very beautifully done. I does look magical.
June 8th, 2012  
Creative processing, Ann. I love the effects and yes, they are magical indeed!
June 8th, 2012  
Love it. How did you do it?

Thanks.
June 8th, 2012  
This is magical!
June 8th, 2012  
That is very magical! Love this!
June 8th, 2012  
@salza Thanks Sally! The fun thing with processing is that you can take the most boring scene and turn it into something spectacular!
@ulpiphotos Thanks Ulpi!
@sangwann Thanks Dione!
@cimes1 Thanks Carole! I thought about adding some butterflies and stars, but they just didn't look right! This was magical enough.

@la_photographic Thanks Laura. I started by cropping out my friend who inadvertently photo bombed the shot without knowing it! It was also slightly tilted because I had the camera resting on the edge of the pool, so I straightened it. Then the real processing began. First I bumped up the hue and saturation a couple notches because I knew I'd be adding a texture and that would darken the shot. Originally I was only going to add the "space" texture, but I happened to see the star burst texture first and wondered what that would look like so I stuck that on first. I liked what it did so I kept it. I then added the space texture on top of that, using the "difference" setting because I liked the midnight blues and and purples it added on. Then I flipped it so that the big stars were on the left side instead of the right. Lastly I added the basic frame changing the colors from black and white to deep blue and purple to match the shot. I used Picmonkey to process this because they give you the ability to apply your own textures in their processing program. Both of these textures were saved from Picnik before it "went off the air". I had fun playing around with this one so that I could conquer this word. I have a feeling I'll have to do some processing with a few others too!

@mrssmith Thanks Carla!
@groovygirlrn Thanks Sheri!
June 8th, 2012  
Thanks for this.
June 8th, 2012  
Interesting image! I particularly like the reflections in the water and the purple vignette.
June 8th, 2012  
very cool effect!
June 8th, 2012  
Bev
cool processing
June 8th, 2012  
@la_photographic You're welcome! Any time- and I realized after reading AutomaticSlim's comment that I had also added a vignette. I tinted it purple instead of black so that it would match. I guess it blended in so well, I forgot I did it!
@automaticslim Thanks Automatic!
@woot Thanks Davide!
@prttblues Thanks Bev!
June 9th, 2012  
Really, really nice! I like it! The reflection is great too :-)
June 9th, 2012  
That's wonderful! I can't wait for picmonkey to add a similar effect seeing as I wasn't clever like wot you are and didn't save the lovely stars.....!
June 9th, 2012  
@vposey Thank you Vickie! This pool has some really great reflections- with or without the processing!
@filsie65 Thanks Phil! iPiccy just added textures and they have a lot of good ones like this- just found the starburst today while processing another shot for the June Word Challenge. I'm probably holding off on that one since I just posted this. You'll also find Picnik's beloved mirror frame there and a whole bunch of neat collage layouts. I wouldn't have thought about saving the textures if it wasn't for the discussion post by another 365er on how to do it.
June 9th, 2012  
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