My New Etsy Shop!

I'm really pleased to announce the opening of my new shop on Etsy! You can see a selection of prints already available for sale, and more will be added over the next coming days. I am always happy to discuss the sale of other prints you may like on my Flickr site too. I've only been open for just over 12 hours and am terribly excited that I've already had some prints faved, as well as my shop! And only 2 hours after listing a print it was included in a beautiful 'treasury'. Do come and visit me by clicking on the above link - I'd love your opinions.

What makes me happy?

1. When I spend a while on a photograph and Photoshop and I end up really pleased with the result! I used a photo I had of an acer in my garden, which had very shallow depth of field. I cropped it to the shape I wanted. Using a texture and overlay from the talented Pixel Lounge, I played with contrast, magic brush and contrast levels. Nothing seemed to be working. It was almost there - for a few minutes I was stumped. And then I remembered 'curves'. I love curves! And curves worked their magic and gave me a result I am actually really happy with!

 

It will be interesting to see what the reaction is on Flickr - often, when I really like something, it doesn't pull the same admiration from my contacts!! Conversely, when I'm not that happy with a pic - it tends to gather quite a few faves!