The garden was treated to a Matisse-style cutout, layered with itself and a false watercolor treatment. The lettering uses the crystal treatment from the Photoshop Wow book.

This deep-red and yellow flower suggested further refinement. I selected out the red, grayed the selection, solarized it on a black copy of the flower. I then copied the center out, made rippled and stretched copies, and placed those back in the flower. I finished by "dirtying up" the petals. A tutorial is available.

Playing with lilies again, working for a metallic sheen. This involved selecting and desaturating the flower, solarizing a copy of that, using "chroming" technique similar to that used in the lettering, and sandwiching all this on black. Adjustment layers for color and for brightness and contrast completed the image.

A collage of influences as well as of images. A too-literal interpretation will probably miss the point. This was an exercise in layers, with some objects (fire, lightning) separating across more than one layer. A tutorial is available.

This lily was isolated from its background, sheared and offset, and then duplicated and skewed. Others were mistreated similarly. Apoligies to Magritte for the background.

Each fragment was cut from the original, and pasted into a new layer. Border selections were used to fill the frame layer, then layers with like colors were merged. Color layers were treated with filters, or overlayed on textures. The frame was chromed, then darkened and tinted.

Not everything has to be complicated. This uses Painter's mosaic tools to tile the lily.

The iris photos are straight macrophotography, with slight cropping and touch-up, some color correction, and only the most subtle of alterations.

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