Digital Whisper Challenge - Puppies

My Sofia. A digital collage done for the weekly blog challenge at Digital Whisper.

Addiction

I am trying to understand a loved one's opiate addiction. After many dark years he has willingly checked himself into a rehab program. He has lost everything. No job. No car. No place to live. I know he's in the best place he can be right now to turn his life around.

We have been attending the family education sessions and have learned the three C's.
I didn't cause it.
I can't cure it.
I can't control it.

But I can art it.

Day Into Night

Would it not be wonderful if we could control the weather? Or the passage of time? In reality we know that's not possible. But in the world of art we can create whatever reality we want.

For this alteration I used a method in Andy Anderson's Adobe Photoshop 7 Creative Workshop, Chapter 5 - Changing Environments, to change the beautiful sunlit grove into a moonlit forest.

I know. We're way beyond Photoshop 7, but some of Anderson's methods can still apply as you can see here.

The Lamp - Digital Art

Creating digital art using the image I posted last: The Lamp. I must have looked at this photo a dozen times and thought: "What the heck am I going to do with this?" I started playing with the filters, but those are so obvious. Most of the really cool tricks and professional looking results I've achieved are from combining features in Photoshop. Here's my digital art rendering of The Lamp.

Instead of using a filter I went to the Image > Adjustments menu and started playing. I clicked on Equalize. There are no options for Equalize, it just kicks in. I liked the results of Equalize, so I went on to Posterize. Posterize gave me a slider option for levels. I played with the slider and settled for 4 levels. This is the result. Pretty wild huh? Psychedelic man!