My Nikon + Xara Designer Pro 7 = fun!

[angelize]

We had a few mins spare time today while waiting to pick up our daughter and we happened to have the camera with us so when I spotted this gated narrow alleyway between two buildings I thought I'd take a photo. When I got home and loaded it onto the computer I thought that I'd have a little fun and see what I could do with it in Xara.

I added a touch of contrast and sharpening then slightly saturated the colours. Then I cloned the photo and gave the clone a slight blue green tint using the brightness and levels dialogue blurred it. I gave the clone a stained glass transparency and then used a feathered ellipse as an opacity mask to create a vignette which I softened even more by adding a circular transparency to the ellipse. I centered the vignette on the alleyway to draw (I hope) the viewers attention down the alley way.

[gpholman]

Hello Frances, could you post the original photo for comparison?

[pauland]

Frances, you don't fool us. You were out tagging and got busted by the cops. The alibi isn't going to work..

;-)

Paul

[angelize]

that's funny Paul!

I'm away from home right now and I have the original image on file at home but I will post it later.

[angelize]

Ok back now and here is the original photo. Like I said this was simply just for fun