Photo Art Friday - Jan. 27 and the Roast that almost wasn't.

Happy Friday! - It's been a good week.  The ice/snow has finally melted and things are back to normal around here.  Well almost...You see the challenge this week for Photo Art Friday (PAF) was to create a piece of Abstract Art using 3 photo's or cropped portions of 3 photo's and at least 1 of Bonnie's textures.  I was "scared to death" of this challenge.  I mean how on earth could I take 3 cropped photo's and create Abstract Art with such limited knowledge of Photo Editing. 

I decided to give it a try though so I begin picking out photo's that I wanted to work with.  I chose the following 3 photo's that were cropped to fit my needs.

I know it's a pretty odd combo of pictures but I like how this turned out.    Again I want to add that I "tried" to write down the steps that I used to get my final effect but after several different changes along the way things sort of got muddled up as far as what I did so I'm giving you the best explanation that I can but it may not be totally exactly what I did.    

 I started by taking the Cropped Frog photo and adding the Brick Building/Tree Shadow Photo over it.  First I re-scaled the shadow photo so that it was the same size as the Frog. Then I used Bonnie's texture:  Heavenly in  Difference Mode at 45.5%   Next I took the Cropped Portion of the Berries which had already been Posterized and added them using Soft Light at 69.3%  I added another layer of the Heavenly texture with the Hue adjusted using Soft Light at 20.8%

Here is what I came up with:

So how does all this fit into the title of my post?  Well you see after I finished this version I started playing around with it doing different things on Picnik (which sadly is closing) and came up with some other versions. 

This one is the same photo but I used the "Boost" feature on Picnik:

Pretty bright and certainly, Abstract.

Still playing around I Inverted the 1st Photo on Picnik and got this version:

So then my mom came over and I was showing her what I had done and decided to show her how I came up with my piece of Abstract Photo Art.  I messed around with the 1st photo this time using Gimp and some Color/Hue changes and created this last version, which is my favorite of all of them.

I didn't write down the formula for this one though so I have no idea how I got the final version.

At this point I looked at the clock, it was 4:30 and  it was time to start fixing dinner.  I went to the Refrigerator and discovered the Roast that I had bought and was going to fix for dinner.  Well needless to say at that late hour it was too late to start cooking a roast  and still eat by 6:00 pm so we opted for Take-Out from KFC and the Roast waited until the next day. 

I need to make a note when playing around to make sure dinner gets cooked on time!

Be sure to check out all the other Fabulous pieces of Photo Art on Bonnie's Blog.