Lori Smith, Texture

Lori Smith W4A2

I first took a photo of a rose.
then copied it over and over again as shown in the video Jeff posted.
I then kept copying the copys' that I made till I had a whole bunch of them. I rotated them, reflected them and so on.

I ended up with something that looked like dna after rotating the over all big picture of roses. Especially with the redness of the roses.

I then desaturated the picture.
I then duplicated the layer so I can start playing with the filters, and not mess up my original image.

The first filter I put on was sharpen which gave the roses a good cell texture.
I then created another layer filled it black and put a difference clouds filter on it.
I then went to my image layer and put a poster edge filter on my image. This gave my image a softer leopardish look.
I decided to keep playing and see what I can do next.

I tried a few other things like using a glowing edges filter which made my image look like a lot of little rice grains.
I applied another difference clouds filter, I played with a lot of filters yet nothing looked that right for this image. So far it seems leopardish and soft maybe even fuzzy.

I can take out the odd images in the background and it looks something like the above example yet more of a clouds effect.