Just playing around with color removal and gradients with an overlay.
First I took the image of the flower and cropped it. Then I went to selective color black and removed most of it. I did a little burn around the stem and edges of the flower. THEN I found an image of some cracked colored paint - close up. I did an overlay of it around 60%. I then erased that layer back to the vivid orange of the flower. I then applied the Aetherize filter using Flaming Pear.
More than anything, just experiment with different settings and see what you get!
Ohmygosh! This is REALLY striking looking. It would make a beautiful framed print! It does look somewhat like a painting, without losing that master photography look! This is one of the prettiest flower pictures I've seen. Amazing.
The results are beautiful. Interesting. It looks a bit like a painting on an old plaster wall, aged by the years, you know how they get spotty like that - but not quite, because the flower and the background are not the same here. It's like the flower was put on an aged plaster wall. It's an eyecatcher.
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