quiet waters - a photo tutorial

Since the finger won't allow me to paint yet,

 I decided to be creative and make lemonade out of lemons so to speak...

so I scanned two magazine photos

 from the current issue of House Beautiful...

&

and I put one on top of the other.

Then the experimenting started...

this one is color burn in photoshop and

this one is multiply & vintage photo. 

Finally I moved the two images to Picnik

and continued to play.

I added focal bw, 

matte with an aqua border,

cinema scope, 

orton-ish 

and the font is Rascunho Errado.

I love the way the finished piece (first one) turned out

but wish they were my photos so I could print them...

sigh.

If you haven't tried it - you must!

All the apps I used are free!

Oh and btw - Zoe is still working on her blog -

she has been a little lazy as dogs sometimes do

and has spent the last two hours working on a rawhide bone...

promise I will get her to finish her blog post soon...

So what are your favorite photo apps?

If you have a great photo technique you would like to share 

then leave your link in the comments (with details on how you did it)

and we can all come and visit!

I would really love to see...