Tonight’s topic:  Elyssa Conley will present “Creating Abstracts With Photoshop”

Elyssa will demonstrate the Photoshop Twirl technique along with some more advanced variations that can be used to create stunning abstract images from ordinary photographs.  Recent versions of Photoshop include more than two dozen blend modes, which each blend a layer with the ones below it in a different way.  There are also a wide variety of filters used in this technique including: distort, pixelate (Mezzotint) and stylizing the image.  When these effects are combined, the possibilities are endless!

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