Roses are delicate and fragrant, light and gentle. Except when I get my hands on them.
The many different tools for editing digital photographs can lead to endless hours of time wasting for someone like me. "Hmmm, wonder what this would look like if I added a lot of purple?" "No, I think I'll make it more blue." Color is just the beginning--you can change shapes and textures, render your photo in neon, turn it into something unrecognizably abstract.
I was tweaking a photograph of a rose that was a bit too washed out for my liking, but I kept editing even after the photo no longer needed it. I was fascinated by the way the rose was changing, its petals growing thicker, their thin softness becoming thick and fleshy.
The end result, which you see here, is appealing at the same time that it is creepy. It looks like leather, or leathery meat arranged into a rose shape. It looks like a rose that's meant to be eaten rather than admired.
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Robin, my dear, I do think it looks like it is inviting some kind of kiss, but not the kind that Seal means when he sings "Kiss from a Rose" (and makes me get all misty eyed, I admit). Heh heh.
Steve/Procopius, I've always got all sorts of thoughts rattled around in my head about the manipulation of photographs. Photography has always sparked more debate than other arts media (there, I've illustrated my own point by calling photography an art, when plenty of people argue that it is not worthy of that lofty title). Add in the ability to digitally manipulate the photos and it creates even more issues to debate. Wheeeee!
Screamin mama, there are some really simple online editing programs that can fix the most common faults in photos (my camera tends to produce pix that are a bit heavy on the yellows and I frequently need to get that out, for example) with very little effort on your part. Most also offer fun and goofy editing options, like the ability to draw a mustache on your mother-in-law or give your annoying cousin Billy Bob buck teeth.
Free online photo editing sites that I have played with include Photoshop XPress, Picnik, and Fotoflexer.