For my first piece, I first of all experimented with different brushes. With brush 100 I changed its size to something large and drew some swirly, circular lines. Definitely needing to be more complex and visually interesting, I looked through the ‘Filter’ tab and opened ‘Liquify’. I really like this tool as you can mush up the image in lots of ways, adding soft swirls and sharp edges, making the picture quite eye catching. Going back into the ‘Filter’ tab I picked the ‘film grain’ selection. I found that the ‘Sketch’ selection had a good range of effects that would make the image appear more abstract, though I was happy with it already so didn’t select anything from there. I then moved onto editing the colour of the abstract work. I altered the contrast, hue and saturation until the colours were really bold and striking. I then experimented with a few tools like Clone, Blur, Invert, Posterize and a few more with the immediate use of ctrl+alt+z because they didn’t suit. In the end I think it was Solarize that I picked and it changed all the colours from light and colourful to dark and really bold. Again I used the saturation, hue and lightness to change the look of the piece until I was happy. The result is a crazy entwinement of lime green and hot pink. I am happy with the end product though it was made very simply through trial and error. I hope to improve and create something better with more and more knowledge of Photoshop.
