The two peacocks with an alike colour.
Thanks mzacha

This is a photo of my mum and her best friend taken 33 years ago while they were still in high school. The photo is really small, I'd say as an average business card, so it was really hard getting it to look sharp. I used a special technique for making the edges look normal (since sharpening filters know to make that strange blurry glow on some places), check out the SBS. I also used some other images from flickr for facial parts and parts that were to small to be sharpened with filters (eyebrows, glasses, nose....), it's all listed in the sources.

Hope you like it. =) My mum sure did, she even made me some cookies :D

I have used two external sources of Bird and the back ground pictures.

thanks to http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1217138
Author: rolve

http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1217138
Author: oOlemon

There isn't any real logic to this image.... I think I should just go to bed now :)

It kind of reminds me of the opening for 007 lol

Anyway... it looks like it was a simple image, but it was rather time consuming as I had to duplicate each peice for each side and transform each one.... :)

Cut image - feather edges - desaturated it - color balance to blue - used plant/flower brush - Dodge and Burn on 2 of the patterns for shadows etc. oh yea and gradient background.