"Fun with Photoshop Elements 9" Personal Page by aussirose

I have just purchased Photoshop Elements 9 as I wanted to play with my photos and create unique pix.
I have in mind to use it with some of my Europe photos when we visit in a few months. I plan to make a few interesting shots of castles, the Eiffel Tower and Sahara desert.

So equipped with my new toy, here are my first creations :o)

Using layers with this one I chose to plastic wrap the background, and placed the real photo on top. Then I used the magic brush to bring the plastic wrap frangipanis to the foreground.

Quite proud of my first photoshop effect.

Fake birds on the lake

Ok, 2nd effort. I really like this one :o)

This was a photo of the birds and a duck at our local lake at Joondalup. I really like the duck so I wanted to focus on this part of the pic.

So I changed the foreground photo to Poster Edges to give the pic a fake look. Then I used the magic brush to colour in the duck and a few of the branches to bring out the real version from the real background pic.

Like it?... Me too :o)

aussirose ghost in Kakadu

Ok, now I'm kind of mastering this layer technique, let's try something different.

Here, I used a picture that hubby took of me Arnhem Land and placed another nice Kakadu scenery pic over the top and created a new layer.

Then using the Gradient tool and a lower percentage of opacity I brought out just me from the pic below then played with the brush tool alternating between the top and bottom pic to clear up the unwanted stuff.

End result.... a ghostly effect of me in Kakadu :o)

Kelli wrapped in plastic

Ok, back to the plastic wrap. I really love that effect :o)

I chose an old pic of daughter Kelli when she had black and blonde hair and plastic wrapped the bottom pic.

And you guessed it.... using the magic brush on the top real pic, I coloured in Kelli and this plastic wrapped version appeared :o)

Photoshopped orange glow frangipanis

Ok, after googling something different I found photomerge. Mmmmm, interesting :o)

So, here I uploaded a simple photo of a couple of frangipanis and used photomerge style match and selected the orange glow sunset scene and transferred the orange tones.

Then erased the top frangipanis to reveal the real ones underneath.

Pink Wreath Flower Western Australia

My first black and white job with full colour flower :o)

This is the amazing Wreath flower found in the dessert regions north-east of Perth in wildflower season.

I added more pink tones to the original picture because it was a little washed out. Then created a black and white version on top and brought out the Wreath flower in it's full glory.

Nice hey :o)

Fountain in Singapore shopping centre

More fun with black and white :o)

This is a fountain on the bottom floor of a shopping centre near Raffles in Singapore. This photo was pretty plain. But with a little help from photoshop I was able to create a lovely effect by just bringing out the colour in the surrounding shops.

Amazing what you can do with a little imagination....and believe me.... I really don't have a creative bone in my body haha :o)

Plastic Wrapped Janine

This is one created by my 11yro son Jesse. I love it! :o)

After a few minutes of drawing a mistache and horns on his sister Janine and a few chuckles later.... Jesse decided to wrap her in plastic just like Kelli in the previous photo.

And with the help of the magic brush to bring out Janine's real face except for the plastic lips.......I love the result!!

Good one Jesse!! :o)