The leaf-blower

No external sources used. It's autumn in this part of the world and there are lots of leaves that need tidying up!

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Relax and enjoy!

I also used my own image for the background.

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Taking the air

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The race

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The lamppost

This is entirely made from the source image.

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Insomnia!

Bright ideas often come at night!

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Tricks of the mind?

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I should have used factor 50!

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The ghosts of the plastic cups

Is this what happens to the discarded cups?

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A loving memory

I selected the dog's head and lengthened it, prepared it (glowing edge 9, 12, 5.) and placed it in a sky (simple gradient) Blending mode on dog layer: Luminosity, 62% opacity. On separate layers I created the stars with Photoshop brushes and an outer glow. I drew and painted the eye from a sketc...

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Have you got 10p for the meter

I used my photos of shadows. Selected them and copied and pasted onto the background file(which I had previously manipulated using hue and sat. tool.) Made eye - pen tool - and then resized and duplicated images as needed. finally I used the difference maker over the whole image at a lower opacit...

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