My 1st entry - red tulips

Good day

I am really interested in nature and wild life. Flowers are one part of the nature and environment. Everytime I look at the flowers, I feel really safe and sound, really peaceful.

This is the photo which is royalty free from the address: http://www.bigfoto.com/themes/nature/flowers/red-tulips-b6.jpg

The pink color of the flowers really helps to make the photo smooth, soft and somewhat delicate. That, in fact, impresses me a lot. That is also the reason why I chose this photo among a lot of flower images.

Then, I used photoshop to manipulate the image so that it can look nicer and more impressive.

At first, I used Marquee Tool to select an rectangular area of the image like this.

Then I saved the selected area as a new layer. I made more five layers which coverd all of the image. Next, I deleted the background layer.

After that, I edited one of the layer with Blending Option

-Drop shadow:

Blendmode: Multiply

Opacity: 100%

Distance: 5px

Spread: 35 %

Size:15%

Angle: 120

With stroke: I also edited some figures like:

Structure: Size: 5px

Position: Outside

Color: White

Then I applied the change for all of the rest layers.

Finally, I edit each layer (Ctr+T) to make it cover all of the image.

And this is my final work:

Now the image really looks strange and a litte creative.

I like the way the whole image is divided into small pieces, but if still looks approximately as the original. Thanks for reading.