Blue Jay

Just playing around with this beautiful image that Chat GPT AI created when I was working on my Trying Out Different AI Programs Fun Photoshop Blog. (Check out the blog to do this.) I put in a wrong prompt and this is the image I got so it was downloaded since it looked kind of nice. I have a Blue Jay family living in my backyard right now, so it seemed very appropriate. A glitter look was created on the leaves using a blue glitter texture clipped to a New Layer and painting on it with a regular old Photoshop spatter brush set to 45 pixels. Can actually use any glitter color and add a Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer clipped on top of texture and the blank layer for painting – just move the sliders to get the color you want. For some nice free gold glitter textures, check out Gold Sparkle Texture Images like the one used on this image. The difference on how it looks is from the brushes you apply. The gold glitter texture was clipped to a new layer for the gold effect this time. A small 15-pixel heavily textured brush was selected to paint in the tiny leaf veins, berries, and bird feathers. Used a Daily Texture called Tranquil Start 5 on top set to Darker Color blend mode at 69% opacity. On a layer mask, the bird was lightly painted back in his face and breast. A highlight layer was created by setting top layer to Overlay at 15% opacity – just painted using soft round brush with white on just the breast, a few feathers, and face to drive the focus. That was it. It was so much fun to do!…..Digital Lady Syd