Trees=Modern Art

By beccajo

You can never have too much art, in my opinion. But you SHOULD make sure you don't spend too much on it. I made my friend Syrina take some snaps of trees today, 'cause I can't find my digicam. :(

Her instructions were to take photos of branches against the sky, so that at least two sides of the frame were sky and two sides were filled with branches.

I liked this one best. Shows off our chilly Minnesota sky perfectly!

I re-sized it to 6x4.5, and made a new file in Photoshop that was 12x9. I copied one version of the original snap as is, then copied and flipped it horizontally, copied another and flipped it vertically, then once more, and flipped it horizontally AND vertically.

Pretty sweet, eh?

Easy abstract art! I could now have this printed up for me at a copy shop, or if my home printer weren't so crappy I could do it at home. You could also print up the individual photos, 2 regular and 2 reversed, and mount them yourself.

For even more impact, I replaced the blue color with a bright pink.

Here's another set of tree photos.

Ooh! It's kinda snowflakey!

Gnarls Barkley, eat your heart out!

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November 13, 2006

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erinloechner

December 18, 2006

LOVE THIS!

ModHomeEcTeacher

December 02, 2006

This really makes me know I need to haveand learn PhotoShop.

How are you so clever?

EmilyJayne

November 29, 2006

This is a really neat idea. You could use it with fabric for a similar effect.

ecogal

November 22, 2006

How stunning!!! I've always thought of trees as art as well, but never thought of doing this! Rock on!

denisemichelle

November 17, 2006

This is just BRILLIANT! I can't wait to go try this... now if we can get another frosty day, I may just have the best holiday cards, ever!

Debra

November 14, 2006

This is a fantastic idea. I am starting to design digital scrapbook papers and I am going to try this.

Tip for anyone intersted - you can find tons of great stock photos at www.sxc.hu - great for photoshop home dec projects

alicia

November 13, 2006

I love this idea. I'm going to give it a whirl...

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