{"id":5433,"date":"2018-01-23T14:46:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T14:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/?p=5433"},"modified":"2018-01-23T14:46:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T14:46:03","slug":"blowing-in-the-wind-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/?p=5433","title":{"rendered":"Blowing in the Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sydjohnson\/38956603955\/\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4676\/38956603955_a0238eed0b.jpg\" alt=\"Image of three Dandelion blooms\" width=\"560\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nGot back to basics and painted this image of what I believe is some variety of dandelion. Painted using three main parts: a background layer to begin, then blocked in the main subject on a middle layer, and detail was added on top, which took several layers and different brushes. Mainly used Fay Sirkis&#8217;s (a Corel Painter Master) PS mixer brushes. (These brushes are pretty hard to find now but worth it if you paint in PS &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/kelbyone.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >KelbyOne<\/a> still has them if you are a member &#8211; just search for her name.) Hypothermia action was applied at 24% layer opacity (See Chris Spooner&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spoongraphics.co.uk\/freebies\/10-free-winter-blues-photo-effect-actions-adobe-photoshop\" target=\"_blank\" >10 Free Winter Blues Photo Effect Actions for Adobe Photoshop<\/a> blog). And another fabulous action by Blake Rudis was applied &#8211; got to check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=54ZdtXlFXNw\" target=\"_blank\" >How to Use the 5 Tone Heat Map in Photoshop<\/a> video and try this. Last step added a grain layer I built a while ago and put in my Library in PS. Lots of fun to paint again&#8230;..Digital Lady Syd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got back to basics and painted this image of what I believe is some variety of dandelion. Painted using three main parts: a background layer to begin, then blocked in the main subject on a middle layer, and detail was added on top, which took several layers and different brushes. Mainly used Fay Sirkis&#8217;s (a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442,678],"tags":[783,30],"class_list":["post-5433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-art","category-photoshop-painting","tag-heat-map","tag-photoshop-action"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5435,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433\/revisions\/5435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}