Easily Distracted!!!!

 As previously mentioned, I've signed up for an online course hoping to improve my photo enhancing and design skills.  I've received two 'lessons' so far, and still feel rather overwhelmed with the terms and commands.  To be honest, I think I just freak out and find it hard to follow the set tasks!!!  I was sent a lovely photo the other day, so decided to use it for the exercise in lesson two. This pretty anenome was perfect.  I like open faced flowers for this purpose.  I just thought I'd share what I had achieved.  Now, don't think this is supposed to be what the lesson stated.  It's so totally NOT.  I got distracted when my cropped image wouldn't fit into my 'new' window, and when I saw only a portion of the flower, in a small rectangle, well......................  All I can say is I'd love to transfer the 'purple'  image to fabric and play a stitching game.   Having not long received a parcel containing lots of lovely purple fabrics, I think I'm finding it hard to get my mind off that colourway.

Looking Forward/Learning

I recently signed up to an online course in the hope of learning some skills with photo and image alteration.  This is conducted via www.joggles.com   The course tutor will be Sharon Boggan, and some information is available on her website:  http://pintangle.com/   She has not long posted some information about one of the exercises, so I am hoping I will be up to the task, not to mention my internet connection, which seems to be sadly lacking of late.

A few weeks ago my miniature roses were flowering quite well, so I decided I might try altering some of the photos I took at the time.  I am not sure of the pink rose's name, but I believe the orangey one is Chameleon.  It begins as an orange bloom, then 'fades' to a reddy pink, and then a 'pinky' pink, and so on.  There are several different colours on the bush at any given time.  It is less of a 'cluster' type than the pink, and the individual blooms are larger.   These are only minor alterations of course, but I'm looking forward to learning much more about something that totally fascinates me.  I can see distorted Tissuetex as the background for the rose cluster.........