Daisy

Paul is away on holiday in the UK at the moment and I'm sure he'll  come back  in a few days with some wonderful photos to texture  so in the meantime you're going to get yet another recipe from me.
I am slightly guilty of using the same textures over and over in my photos, this isn't a bad thing when you know the combinations work, but in this photo I decided to try and use some I don't use quite as much, try being the operative word!
Pistachio @ soft light 38% masked from flower
Basalt @ Overlay 60% masked from flower
Archival Canvas @ Soft light 29%
Verdigris Mist @ Overlay 32%
Copy of Background @ Soft light 52%
At this stage it looked okay but to my eyes anyway needed something to pull things together so....
Concorde @ Overlay 32%
Curves layer to tweak tone and contrast.

Pistachio and Verdigris Mist are from the Painterly set, Concorde, Basalt and Archival canvas from Text box 2.

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Daisy had issues

The story came about with the bar code idea.
Daisy is a radicalized cow, she always has issues and frequently stomps around the fields with slogans painted on her sides.
Today's protest is not wanting to be just a number. Her long-suffering farmer owner loves to see what she's come up with every morning.
Naturally she's the head of the herd, and always gets the best milking position.
She's one clever cow!

In this Flickr Challenge we had to use textures on Jill's start-off Cow image.I think this surreal cow idea came after seeing Swiss Chocolate advertising many years ago in Hamburg. Its not so new, but I like to think my texturing is! :-)

First I took a photograph of a bar code from a newspaper, and overlaid it onto the cows back after first roughly cloning out the black saddle markings.
I used a quick magic wand to remove the white newspaper background and defringed by 6 pixels.
I then applied a simple warp mode with the 50% visible bar code to roughly get it onto the back in the right position,
it takes a little practice but is fairly easy once mastered.
I softened the bar code and made it slightly fuzzy with gaussian blur @ approx 1.5%.
Next I flattened and made the whole thing B/W and then chose a sepia tone. To pull the whole thing together I used these flypaper textures:

Flypaper Edges #27 - pulled square - Hard Light @ 71% softly brushed away from cows features
Leaden Hall - Hard Light @ 100% softly brushed away from cows features.

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